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Unit
5
Inside view
Conversation
1
Have
you got your tickets for the play?
What play?
The play
which OUDS are producing.
You
know, the play I'm in at the Oxford Playhouse.
Oh, that play! Well, er ...
What about you,
Janet
?
What's the play called?
Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett.
You are coming, aren't you?
Beckett? Why not?
Well, um, I'm sure you'll be totally
brilliant,
Mark
...
but I wish I could understand the play.
It doesn't make sense.
If only
you were more patient,
Kate
.
Beckett's a fascinating writer.
You'll come though, won't you,
Janet
?
You really
ought to see something like this
at least once during your stay in
Oxford.
Well, I'm not sure.
Oh, come on! Please!
But if
Kate
doesn't understand the play,
there's no
way I'll be able to follow it.
Do you want to go?
Well, I love going to the theatre,
and I'd really like to see
Mark
acting.
And
actually, yes, I think I should see a play by
Samuel Beckett.
Good! So you're
coming,
Janet
.
I
wish you'd come, too,
Kate
.
It's a really good performance.
Well, OK, but I'm only doing it because
you're in it.
When is it on?
Next Tuesday to Saturday.
How about going Friday night?
That's great. But you'd better
get your tickets soon,
because
we're expecting a full house.
Conversation
2
Well,
what did you think?
It was ... very
interesting.
I didn't have a clue what
was going on.
Absolutely
nothing happened!
I don't know
why I bothered coming to see it.
I thought
Mark
was brilliant.
Yes, I did too, of course
...
But I wish I had read the play
before I saw it.
If only I had
known the story,
it might have
been easier to follow it.
How
long do you think
Mark
will be?
I guess he needs to get changed
first. He said he'd join us as soon as possible.
Here he is. Hi,
Mark
!
Hi, what
did you think? How was I?
It
was ... very challenging.
It was so-so.
But you were brilliant! Well done!
You were awesome,
Mark
.
Everyone adored your
performance.
Darling, you were
to die for!
OK, OK, don't
exaggerate.
I wasn't that good!
Anyway,
I've got some great
news!
Tell us!
We've
started talking about next term's OUDS play.
What's it going to be?
Hamlet, by William Shakespeare!
Great! And who's going to play Hamlet?
Don't tell me. Let me guess!
To be or not to be - that is the
Question
!
I don't believe
it. You're going to play Hamlet?
Come on, let's celebrate ... from
Beckett to Shakespeare.
Today
Oxford, tomorrow, Hollywood!
Outside view
So, what
do you guys want to watch?
Uh, I don't
know. What's on?
How about a
documentary on the History Channel?
I like watching history programmes.
I don't really like watching
the History Channel.
How about
a baseball game? From 1973?
No thanks!
How about a cooking show?
Yeah, I love
watching cooking shows.
What?
I do!
Uh, I don't like
cooking shows. Uh, let's watch some music videos.
This is awful!
Can you see what's on another channel?
Yeah, sure. What channel?
Uh, anything but this.
These
television viewers are trying to decide on a
programme to watch,
by clicking
on channels and seeing what's on.