What hath Godot wrought? The pregnant, performative style of stage dialogue revolutionized by Beckett and honed by Pinter to express existential dread has, over the years, devolved into a cheap lingua franca used by playwrights as high-gloss polyurethane to varnish on their piddly dramedies and romcoms. (They have existential dread, ... More »
SOURCE: Vulture at 11:16PM on August 7, 2014