by Michael Meigs
Published on January 28, 2014
In theatre world, a space bounded only by the imagination, the playwright and company can take us almost anywhere. The battlements at Elsinore; Osage County; the humble Loman household; or eerie reaches that seem beyond space and time. Samuel Beckett did it best, at least for me when I was reading in, a long time ago. Vladimir and Estragon, Hamm and Clov in Endgame, Krapp and his last tape. Nowadays apocalypses are as common as …