PATRICK BIXBY
‘this. . . this. . . thing’: The
Endgame Project, Corporeal
Difference, and the Ethics
of Witnessing
For Dan Moran and Chris Jones
Dan Moran was up late one night in January of 2008, with
the insomnia brought on by his medications, when he went to
the bookshelf and took down a copy of Endgame. He had read the
play many times before, but on this occasion it spoke to Dan in a
different way. From the opening stage directions, the play seemed
to address his new circumstances, after a few years of living with
Parkinson’s disease: ‘Clov goes and stands under window left. Stiff,
staggering walk’ (Beckett, 2009, 7). The image was now familiar, for
he recognized the shuffling gait as one like his own. Dan had spent
more than three decades as a professional actor in New York: he
Journal of Beckett Studies 27.1 (2018): 112–127
Edinburgh University Press
DOI: 10.3366/jobs.2018.0224
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