These two characters, Angel and George, both somehow want the same thing: to make something of the last couple of decades of their lives. To be who they were meant to be, and do what that calls for. But they are different. They both have ambivalence about leaving their life together, their old life, but they must be different . I must distinguish who is who. They are pointed in the same direction, but they are different. How?
And what are the events? Beckett could write whole plays of nothing but talk. I need events, deep conflicted actions. At what point does the big idea, the idea to divorce and go separately into the world for the rest of their lives, when does that idea descend onto the stage? When? How? What comes after?
It's time to change their names. They need their real names.
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