Samuel Beckett's New Musical: Waiting for the Surrey
Celebrate Beckett’s birthday on April 13th with his revisionist, toe-tapping, “Oklahoma”. He came back from the dead to write it for you.
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ACT 1
Oklahoma Territory, 1907, desolate and dusty. A run-down farmhouse porch with four chairs. A tree. Morning.
Curly, a handsome young cowboy, enters, singing.
Curly: There’s a bright golden haze on the meadow,
There’s a bright golden haze…
Aunt Eller, a spinster, steps out onto the porch.
Aunt Eller: (Annoyed). Curly, y…