Piece Of Monologue, A (1979)
Production
"David Warrilow stands at the edge of the stage, a thin, spectral figure made even more ghostly by his garb... a white nightshirt--or is it a hospital gown? In the middle of the stage is a floor lamp with a round 'skull-size' white globe. The man and the lamp are twin sentinels, tall totems. There is a third object: the foot of a bed... After a puse, the man, identified as the Speaker, begins to talk: 'Birth. Birth was the death of him.' The landscape, a 'room full of sounds,' identifiably belongs to Samuel Beckett."
"The play...was written by Beckett especially for Mr. Warrilow...It is a dead-of-night soliloquy, an elegy to the brevity of life and the proximity of death."
--Mel Gussow (The New York Times), "Reviews and listings for 'A Piece of Monologue' (1979)" [OBJ.1979.0169]
"The play...was written by Beckett especially for Mr. Warrilow...It is a dead-of-night soliloquy, an elegy to the brevity of life and the proximity of death."
--Mel Gussow (The New York Times), "Reviews and listings for 'A Piece of Monologue' (1979)" [OBJ.1979.0169]
December 14 – 30, 1979
PROD.1979.0052
Samuel Beckett (author), David Warrilow (performer), Rocky Greenberg (choreographer), Michael Kuhling (lighting designer), National Endowment For The Arts (contributor), New York State Council On The Arts (contributor), Peg Santvoord Foundation (contributor), Shubert Foundation (contributor), John-Michael Tebelak (contributor)
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