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Season 1 • Episode 191: Quad (Samuel Beckett Season) • Watch with subtitles
Episode 191: Quad (Samuel Beckett Season)
December 16, 1982
Continues the Samuel Beckett Season with a premiere. A play without words. Quad has a musical structure. It is a kind of canon or catch-a mysterious square-dance. Four hooded figures move along the sides of the square. Each has his own particular itinerary. A pattern emerges and collisions are just avoided. From these permutations, Beckett, as writer and director creates an image of life that is both highly charged and strangely funny. Introduced by Martin Esslin.
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