‘You don’t have to be an intellectual to enjoy Beckett.’
A theatre critic, in this centenary year, wrote on Sunday, ‘You don’t have to be an intellectual to enjoy Beckett.’ Many theatregoers must also have thought that, for maximum enjoyment, it helps to be a pseudo-intellectual.
Doubtless plenty of the people at present lauding Beckett are saying what they truly think.
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