Bingo: Bodies; Passport: Contemporary fiction On the stage a woman is buried up to her waist in a hill of parched grass, desperately cheerful under the blazing light. In the theatre three women watch, their thoughts sliding between the performance, their surroundings and their lives outside. Margot sits with her “expensive, unobstructed view of the stage” trying not to think about the meeting with the dean, when the prospect of her retirement was spoken aloud. Margot is tense, envious of the woman’s offstage husband and […]
Watching Beckett while the world burns
The Performance by Claire Thomas
