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Saïd Sayrafiezadeh Reads Samuel Beckett

The New Yorker: Fiction

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The Night Star and the Morning Star

The Beckett estate won't get permission for performance if it's not hewing exactly to the text. The title ill seen ill could almost be a reproach to our author you're not you're not, says actor and playwright David Oyelowo. "I had pessimism all the way yeah," said Obie-award winning director Tom Hanks of his own experience as an audience member in New York City. 'You know it sets in pretty fast,' added O'Elyewa about her time on stage at London's Café Carlyle.

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