When Theatermakers Long for the Stage, Playfully
When Theatermakers Long for the Stage, Playfully Two short films that find pandemic-sidelined performers grappling with Beckett are a highlight of the annual Exponential Festival. Lucy Kaminsky in “The Puzzlers 2: Black Box.”Credit...via The Exponential Festival “These films were made by theater people.” It’s just one line of text on the Exponential Festival website, explaining the provenance of a pair of video shorts in the lineup: zestfully odd and playful mash-ups of the first piece in Samuel Beckett’s doom-laden prose collection “Texts for Nothing,” from a company called A...