Celebrating Beckett, Against His Will
"But the audience became hushed and sat very still as Ms. Seldes read "Rockaby," Beckett's play about a woman rocking herself to death. "Close of a long day," Ms. Seldes read, sitting onstage in a rocker, her face almost gaunt, and wrapped in a mauve shawl, "went down/ down the steep stair/ let down the blind and down/ right down." Finally, "stop her eyes/ rock her off/ rock her off," she read. And then her head dropped. " [ nytimes:books ]