Actor Michael Moriarty: America’s Version of Waiting for Godot: Charles Krauthammer and George Will
Unfortunately, my title for this article ignores the obvious: both George Will and Charles Krauthammer are Vladimir, the intellectual of Samuel Beckett’s divinely important classic, Waiting For Godot.
I don’t think, at least in this moment, I don’t expect that these journalists could possibly be the other major character Estragon in a production of Godot.
The intellectually limited, yea “challenged” Estragon, certainly in the eyes of Krauthammer and Will, might very well be the American people!
With a very Irish play on the word estrogen, Estragon is that corner of the United States which has fallen madly in love with and, according to the principle subjects of this article, has become obsessed with Donald Trump.
The American Estragon is, indeed, an increasingly fierce corner of the American population!
That unenlightened portion of America is, according to our journalists, literally benighted by that ugliest of Ugly Americans Donald Trump.
Therefore, Fate, or Godot, or GodHimself, has forced these two, well-known pundits, Will and Krauthammer, to spend their life writing for and talking to their own version of the charmingly but undeniably “stupid” Estragon: the American people.
Many of the American people are, according to Krauthammer and Will, in a painfully incomprehensible love affair with Donald Trump.
Seemingly unrelated but of profoundly poetic importance, I had, as a Dartmouth student, the great privilege of sharing the stage with Stephen Macht –––in Stephen Geller’s production of Waiting For Godot.
Most Americans, myself included, as we are waiting for whatever the word “Godot” happens to represent, we, the American Estragon, spend much of our time watching television.
Will and Krauthammer, on the other hand, can be frequently found attending the Washington Nationals’ baseball games.
They both, apparently…and rather ritualistically… as the game progresses, fill their scorecards out while sharing their profoundly informed opinions of Dusty Baker’s managerial decisions.
Actor Michael Moriarty will star in the motion picture “The Boys of Summer” which co-stars Melissa Anschutz and will be released in 2017.
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