More kicks than you might think
With celebrations in full cry for Samuel Beckett's centenary, Michael Hall offers beginners some ways in to what can seem obscure and bleak territoryAccording to one character in Endgame, "Nothing is funnier than unhappiness." Let us smirk, then, at loss, destitution, deprivation, pain, suffering - always suffering - despair, fear and guilt, hopelessness, then death. That always raises a chuckle. But what of life and…