Catastrophe

In Beckett's "Catastrophe", unlike the movie, the assistant offers him an actual light, not a flame for his cigar. Obviously saying that the characters have no distinguishable traits, and then actually seeing them, is a big difference. I liked how the Director used almost every line from the written form, and was a lot more entertaining. (Who knew video was more entertaining than text?) The Protagonist in Becketts form had ash covered pajamas, but he never mentioned that they were extremely dirty, and I don't know if Pinter meant to do that, or the old man just showed up with dirty jammies. Also, in the written form, the applause supposedly was a distant storm, but I didnt hear it in Pinter's version . All in all, the video was very intriguing, and I found myself confused by what the Director in the play was trying to accomplish.