Clowning "On Beckett," Irwin Delights at the Emerson Paramount Center
Bill Irwin greets the audience by conveying that the performance will be around 90 minutes (by way of reassurance, he admits). In truth, the performance zips by. Irwin dazzles as he pontificates, performs, and clowns around, literally, with the famously obtuse dramatist's work. Recalling some of the touring Shakespearean recitals of the nineteenth and early-twentieth […]