Vivian Mercier Quotes

• Waiting for Godot has achieved a theoretical impossibility — a play in which nothing happens, that yet keeps the audience glued to their seats. What's more, since the second act is a subtly different reprise of the first, he has written a play in which nothing happens, twice.

  Vivian Mercier

  Play, Waiting, Firsts

  "The Uneventful Event". The Irish Times, p. 6, February 18, 1956.

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• Recall the old story of the rather refined young man who preferred sex dreams to visiting brothels because he met a much nicer type of girl that way.

  Vivian Mercier

  Girl, Dream, Sex

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