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As he manages this, he hears another's voice calling him. It is his old friend, Cream, whom he has not seen in years. Cream, a widower, had been living with one of his daughters, Daisy, but since her death, he has moved in with the other, Bertha. Gorman's wife is still alive. Both men are in their seventies: Gorman, by far the more inquisitive of the two, is seventy-three; Cream is seventy-six.
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Mary, who died in an explosion in a car along which injured a soldier, John Fitzball; John's aunt, “the high and mighty” Miss Hester, and her niece, Miss Victoria, who was due to marry an American and who had a brother – the aforementioned John – who died of injuries sustained from the explosion a year or two later.
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French” in the first place. Beckett already admired Pinget's work – he had, for example, insisted that his friends. the Reaveys attend a performance of the French production on which he had been working – and “used to cite this play as an illustration of how important the proper use of music could be
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and the pub was Harrison's Oak Lounge; he is doubly sure of this because he used to take his wife there on holiday. Gorman gives way on the pub's name but is still convinced it was Chatham. Cream refuses to cave, insisting that “The Gunners” were billeted at Chatham. The two become muddled. Cream is
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The play opens to the sound of street noises. An old organ grinder, Gorman, is having a fight with his equally dilapidated barrel organ. It plays for a bit, he thumps it; it plays a few bars more and then it gives up the ghost. He curses, fiddles with the workings and gets a bit more life out of it.
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This causes the men to reminisce over people they used to know in the past: Helen Bliss, the butcher's daughter; Rosie Plumpton, now deceased; Molly Berry; Eva Hart, whose brother married Gertie Crumplin who, in her day, had been a “great one for the lads”; Nelly Crowther, the daughter of Simon and
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They begin to talk about families. Cream's grandson, Herbert – the judge's son – died in infancy; his daughter has two daughters of her own though. It's at this point Gorman learns that Cream's wife has been dead for twenty years. Gorman gets confused about the names of Cream's daughters, Daisy and
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Critics tend to by-pass the piece, treating it as Beckett-lite, which in many ways it is, but it also demonstrates something of a nostalgic looking-back from Beckett's own point of view, not simply to the Dublin he once knew but to a style of writing that he would never return to again after this
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Throughout their conversation the roar of engines has continually interrupted them. Cream has had enough and prepares to go, aware that he's keeping Gorman from his work. Gorman persuades him to stay and starts looking for his cigarettes. Cream says he should start his barrel organ again which he
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had in mind some specific “emergent occasion” then this was probably the last thing he would have thought of: two men, each waiting for their own particular “bell toll”, each “an island, entire of itself” shouting across the strait to another man on another island barely able to hear a word the
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the work the themes at its core are universal. Gorman's line, “You had to work for your living in those days, it wasn't at six you knocked off, nor at seven neither, eight it was, eight o’clock, yes by God,” could be slipped almost unnoticed into the
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and plumps for 1895, “the year of the great frost”. Cream corrects him, it was 1893, the year he'd just turned ten. Gorman doesn't object and proceeds with his recollection of the time Cream's father “went hell for leather for the
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He notes that Cream's son has been in the newspapers recently concerning the “Carlton affair”. Cream corrects him. It was the “Barton affair.” Gorman is not convinced. He insists: “The Carlton affair, Mr Cream, the
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They are both more alone than they want to admit, struggling to remember, fighting to find common ground and yet even when they seem to it turns into a new battlefield for these two but they keep soldiering on.
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a nurseryman. He also now states she has two sons, one of which he calls Hubert confusing the boy with Herbert the boy his son, the judge, lost in infancy. He can't remember the name of his other grandson.
514:, by Robert Pinget in a translation-adaptation by Samuel Beckett – more Beckett than Pinget I hazard – is a telling if slender piece of work. Death becomes it well: its subject matter is ageing and death, 522:. But also memory and fondness, loving and nostalgia – and the foolish-fondness of old men straining with weak memories, full of error, for the pictures and pleasures of the past." 276:
Gorman becomes nostalgic for the War: “h those are happy memories.” Clearly Cream's remembrances are not as ‘rose tinted’ though but he won't even give in on this generality.
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The roar of an engine butts into their conversation, the first of many to come. They both bemoan the youth of today and remember a time before cars. Gorman remembers “
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For some reason this reminds Cream of his father. Gorman says he knew him to be a straight-talking man. He tries to remember when the man sat on the
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The conversation shifts onto financial matters. Gorman has always believed that Cream's daughter, whom he mistakenly calls his daughter-in-law, had “
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by William W. Demastes, Bernice Schrank (Greenwood Press, 1997), p 9 states that this was the first UK production but this is not supported by the
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The effect of modern life on the environment takes the men back to a particularly hot summer in 1895. Gorman talks about watering the roof with a
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There is a clear contrast between O’Casey's linguistic pyrotechnics and the limited, impoverished lives of the characters that utter his rich
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Gorman and Cream's worlds are crumbling around them just as their pasts and memories are doing. Their speech is colloquial, their outlook
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The roar of an engine distracts them and the next thing he knows Gorman has changed the subject: he is asking after Cream's son, who is a
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which confirms the performance dates as between 5 January 1965 and 24 January 1965, the play being part of a double-bill with
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In 1957, Pinget, who at the time was close friends with Beckett, undertook a translation of Beckett's radio play
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does. For a few moments it fights with the street noise and then rises triumphantly at the end of the play.
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Yesterday's Deformities: A Discussion of the Role of Memory and Discourse in the Plays of Samuel Beckett
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to a playwright, especially one who was cognizant of the importance of unifying the two disciples.”
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on 23 March 1961, directed by Steve Chernak with Sly Travers (Gorman) and Jack Delmonte (Cream).
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When Randolph Goodman interviewed the French playwright in 1967, Pinget explained that Beckett
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And the play was still going strong twenty-two years later. “When Gontarski staged it at the
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Judson Poets’ Theater, New York. Peter Feldman directed Jerry Trichter and Sean O’Ceallaigh.
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to waste resources on the moon and can envisage nations fighting over it in years to come.
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The Old Tune itself (WAV file) as used by The TĂŒbingen Anglo-Irish Theatre Group
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could easily have squabbled about on their trek through and round about Dublin.
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Bertha, and where Bertha and her husband live. Gorman thinks they live near the
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Footsteps approach and Gorman tries to get them a light, unsuccessfully again.
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This was not too much of a stretch as Pinget's original was written in “highly
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opened at the Théùtre de la Comédie, Paris. George Peyrou directed
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but Cream says Gorman must be thinking of the man's brother, the
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The play was adapted to the stage shortly after publication in
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The British stage version opened on 22 November 1964 at the
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Disjecta: Miscellaneous Writings and a Dramatic Fragment
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The play was not well received, apart from a review in
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Cream proposes they have a smoke, but can't find his
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For the unspecified old tune played by Gorman on the
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E., (Eds.) 489:5.17, (March–April 1961) and first presented 213:which is where Morrison's pub seemingly was. 405:, which includes two one-act plays, writes: 174:especially the prevalent trend for erecting 777:(London: Faber and Faber, 1984), pp 186,187 545:In 1964 Beckett's adaptation opened at the 401:In 1934, Beckett, in a review of O’Casey's 158:but Cream insists a hose would have been a 963: 949: 827:Collected Shorter Plays of Samuel Beckett 816:(London: Calder Publications, 1983), p 82 801:Collected Shorter Plays of Samuel Beckett 788:Collected Shorter Plays of Samuel Beckett 775:Collected Shorter Plays of Samuel Beckett 762:Collected Shorter Plays of Samuel Beckett 749:Collected Shorter Plays of Samuel Beckett 736:Collected Shorter Plays of Samuel Beckett 723:Collected Shorter Plays of Samuel Beckett 646:Collected Shorter Plays of Samuel Beckett 283:. 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Index

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Robert Pinget
Samuel Beckett
Parisians
Dubliners
BBC Third Programme
Barbara Bray
Jack MacGowran
Patrick Magee
barrel organ
The Bluebells of Scotland
All That Fall
Krapp's Last Tape
Théùtre Récamier
colloquial
barouches
broughams
vintner
garden hose
luxury item
World War I
running water
gardens
gazebos
cigarettes
shag
armed forces
Chatham
Caterham
mobilization

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