Customer Reviews
Beckett complete dramas. - By: , 16 Nov 2003 
If you are new to the works of Samuel Beckett then this is the best place to startin my opinion. There is nothing I can add which hasn't already been said about these dramas, only that they are quite short & moderately accessible but almost inexhaustablein their complexity. To describe these works as 'existentialist' really doesn't do them justice or decribe their nature to any deep degree. The plays are unique & must be experienced to be understood. Generally there is a quite dark tone to most of the works, sometimes obscenely disturbing, sometimes cynically funny but at times there are moments of true poetic beauty. I would strongly recommend these plays to anyone interestedin drama of a more unconventional type. High points include - 'Waiting for Godot', 'Endgame', 'Krapp's last tape' & 'All that falls'. However, as a general warning, these are not uplifting plays, I myself found some of them sickening & disturbingin parts.
the complete works of the master of 'theatre of the absurd' - By: , 16 May 2000 Compact, well presented collection of Beckett epic metamorphosis of modern theatre - from Godot to Ghost Trio. Plays following the more 'excepted structure' to works of silence & light. The only crit is the briefness of notes about first performances. Otherwise a must have for those intrested in exploring the limits of theatre.
