{"id":7386,"date":"2013-04-18T09:00:35","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T13:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bullmensfiction.com\/?p=7386"},"modified":"2022-08-03T13:16:31","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T17:16:31","slug":"rejection-notes-4-samuel-beckett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/fiction\/rejection-notes-4-samuel-beckett\/","title":{"rendered":"Rejection Notes #4: Samuel Beckett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>from the archives at the Beckett International Foundation at the University of Reading:<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><i>14 June 1955<\/i><\/h5>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<h5>Dear Sam,<\/h5>\n<h5>This piece may have played well in France, but it won\u2019t work here in the States. For one, the character names are too difficult to pronounce. Vladimir and Estragon don\u2019t exactly roll off the tongue. You would need to change them to something more familiar (Bruce and Carl, for instance).<\/h5>\n<h5>Second, the play is called <em>Waiting for Godot<\/em> and this Godot fellow never shows up! Folks in this country don\u2019t take too kindly to false advertising. A better title for the play would be <em>Two Guys Talking<\/em> (or <em>Bruce and Carl Talking<\/em>). Better yet, you could bring out Godot in the second act and finish with a song and dance number. How about that for an ending? Go out with a bang. We feel this piece could benefit from a little more action. As it stands now, it\u2019s a bit of a bore.<\/h5>\n<h5>Sorry for the rotten news, Sam. If you\u2019re ever in the States, we\u2019d love for you to come by and see one of our shows. You might even learn a thing or two.<\/h5>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<h5>Best Regards,<\/h5>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<h5>Willy Hackett<\/h5>\n<h5>Stars &amp; Stripes Theatre<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Irish author learns his style might not play so well for Americans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiction","writer-ravi-mangla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17591,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7386\/revisions\/17591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}