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Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch)
Username: Mark_lynch

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 80.225.194.138
Posted on Wednesday, September 02, 2009 - 07:27 pm:   

Or, " A good excuse when you forget your lines"?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/theatre-news/6087811/Patrick-Stewart- saw-ghost-performing-Waiting-for-Godot.html
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Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.177.173.198
Posted on Wednesday, September 02, 2009 - 07:29 pm:   

"However, it appears cameramen failed to capture images of the ghost itself."

Oh really?
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Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 75.5.11.2
Posted on Wednesday, September 02, 2009 - 07:54 pm:   

Can you say, "publicity"...?
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Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch)
Username: Mark_lynch

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 217.171.129.72
Posted on Wednesday, September 02, 2009 - 11:21 pm:   

Sold out as soon as the tickets went on sale, and I doubt either Stewart or McKellan need the money. They've all the theatrical accolades they could ask for and are getting mostly rave reviews. A jape, then, or Stewart genuinely believed he was spooked?
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Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 75.5.4.231
Posted on Thursday, September 03, 2009 - 12:11 am:   

... And yet, I've never heard of this performance at all, until you mentioned it here, Mark....

Not that I'm a cultural dipstick or anything - er, whatever.
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Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch)
Username: Mark_lynch

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 217.171.129.68
Posted on Thursday, September 03, 2009 - 07:29 am:   

Both actors regularly sell out their tours within hours, Craig. Tickets are like gold dust, as they say.
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Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 75.5.7.58
Posted on Thursday, September 03, 2009 - 07:51 am:   

Here's a bigger issue....

Why the hell isn't Samuel Beckett - THE AUTHOR - not mentioned once in this entire article?!?
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Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch)
Username: Mark_lynch

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 217.171.129.68
Posted on Thursday, September 03, 2009 - 07:58 am:   

'If I'd meant God I'd've called him God and not Godot.'
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Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 75.4.234.212
Posted on Thursday, September 03, 2009 - 08:13 am:   

... said the patient to Dr. Freud.
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Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.177.173.198
Posted on Thursday, September 03, 2009 - 09:13 am:   

Why the hell isn't Samuel Beckett - THE AUTHOR - not mentioned once in this entire article?!?

That'll be the world we live in, I guess - lowest common denominator and all that...

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