GoGo & DiDi: A Meeting of Many Minds

About this episode

Jane Stahl discusses a play she wrote featuring characters from various literary works that influenced her life and career.

In Jane Stahl's series discussing the literature that informed her life and career, she shares a play that she'd written for a graduate school slide show project featuring characters from a variety of the literature she taught in a class she developed titled "Man's Search for Meaning" in Colorado in the early 1970's. The main characters are Samuel Beckett's bums GoGo & DiDi from Waiting for Godot. They are visited by Franny from Salinger's Franny and Zooey, Emily from Thornton Wilder's Our Town, Sabina and Mr. Antrobus from Wilder's Skin of Our Teeth, Viktor Frankl from Man's Search for Meaning, Meursault from Camus' The Stranger. Each character has advice for the two misfits, advice Jane considered as she discovered herself.

People in this episode

Host: Jane Stahl

Topics covered

• literature
• self-discovery
• theater
• character analysis
• meaning of life

Keywords

• literature
• self-improvement
• theater
• character advice
• meaning

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Waiting for Godot, Franny and Zooey, Our Town, Skin of Our Teeth, Man's Search for Meaning, The Stranger

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