Honestly, I think artists should keep their big mouths shut when it comes to new work. If a play doesn’t speak for itself, and the production doesn’t give the audience the necessary entrée for fully participating in the experience, no amount of framing on the part of the author will matter. (Framing the play for us in some useful fashion is what critics do.) Beckett was famously opaque about his work: “Everything I know is in the play.”

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