剧情介绍
A short. A stage director and his female assistant find the blackest protagonist possible, then make him up as white as possible, to create the titular character.
One of Samuel Beckett's shortest plays. A director and his assistant prepare an aged man for a public spectacle for a political purpose. The play was dedicated to the Czech dissident Vaclev Havel and was recently revived by the director and scientist Stephen Armourae as part of his 'New Blood' Theatre Season. The role of the aged protagonist was shared between Armourae and the actress Rosanna Hoult as a means of subverting Beckett's messages till further by presenting either Armourae or the very pretty Rosanna as the supposedly aged man as described in Beckett's text: Armourae and Hoult have worked as models.
贝克特献给狱中的哈维尔的短剧，被称作是他的"most overtly political play"。短片里饰演director一角的是品特，演protagonist的是Gielgud爵爷，这也是他生前的最后一个角色。
Beckett of this intensity can be no rival to Kafka. I'm pretty much against meta-anything now.
戏剧迷恋。
贝克特《灾变》
6-minute short/ script: http://www.english.emory.edu/DRAMA/beckettCatas.html