Talk:Play (play)

Note

 * The light is a symbol for the cruelty of god, who does not care about what each person has to say, which is irrelivant nonetheless. 

According to who? Beckett? A critic? A director? Some bloke in a pub? I don't see anything in the script to suggest this. --Camembert


 * Dys and I have edited into a more coherent form- probably valid as an interpretation. Markalexander100 03:11, 27 May 2004 (UTC)


 * Yes, I suppose so. I keep meaning to dig out the opinions of some quotable people on Beckett's plays, never got round to it. One day... --Camembert

In the article I read that 'Billie Whitelaw referred to it as “an instrument of torture."' Was she referring to the flashlight, or to the play itself? I saw the play last night and found it to be absolute torture. John Link (talk) 05:07, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

I found that the Synopsis section often had tangents that strayed from summarizing the contents of the play "Play." Such as where there are direct quotes taken from the play and interspersed in parentheses amidst the summary. Melly12many (talk) 04:09, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

Introducing Quotes & Informality
This page has a lot of really good quotes, but barely any of them have a decent introduction. I think if we're writing for a general audience, having tons of drop quotes is less than helpful. I wish I had time to fix this. I fixed a few. I tried to base them on the references, but some of them are confusing. For example, a lot of references are to Collected Plays, but the quotes seem to be Beckett or somebody describing the play. The Collected Plays just has, well, the plays collected, not really people discussing the plays. I admit I may be wrong about this since my collected plays is a different edition. If this edition of the collected plays has, for example, essays or interviews, then the essay or interview should be cited individually as in ''Joe Blow "Interview with Beckett". Collected Plays Faber and Faber. pg.2'' or whatever. Again here the issue is clarity. We're trying to make this helpful and easy for a general audience, not necessarily for Beckett scholars who can do their own work. Also, the interpretation section is a very worthwhile section and presently is helpful in many ways, but at times it's quite informal. For example, I changed something like "He couldn't have possibly not known about the world's greatest this or that" to "This is likely a reference" -- not perfect but more formal at least. There are other places like that in the interpretation but, again, I have no time to fix them. I strongly encourage others to go through with that in mind.F. Simon Grant (talk) 15:52, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

Play text
External links -> Text of the play

leads to a car insurance. However, the text is to be found here, but I'm not sure how to technically put in the new link in a proper way: http://faculty.cua.edu/johnsong/hsct101/readings-pdf/playbeckett.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.181.151.229 (talk) 09:56, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

Which Sweetwater?
In "Biographical references", there is mention of what appears to be a placename of Sweetwater, but no detail of which one, yet the Wiki disambiguation page lists numerous possibilities. Can someone with access to the cited source clarify this? --Blurryman (talk) 00:11, 24 June 2024 (UTC)