{"id":14900,"date":"2015-01-19T11:53:42","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T16:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=14900"},"modified":"2015-01-19T11:55:19","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T16:55:19","slug":"beckett-but-not-beckett-being-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2015\/01\/beckett-but-not-beckett-being-human.html","title":{"rendered":"Beckett But Not Beckett: &#8216;Being Human&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It begins in blackness with whispers. Jumps to a face with eyes closed. The eyes open. Words form: &#8220;I was almost human. But then something went wrong. I was a human being. But then I became a victim. I was almost a human being but then I ran out of time.&#8221; I wish I could embed the YouTube video here, but the embed function has been disabled. To see the video click the image.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XLTM7b79ta0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"14904\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2015\/01\/beckett-but-not-beckett-being-human.html\/being-human-1750\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/BEING-HUMAN-1750-e1421685825112.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"560,308\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"BEING HUMAN (title card)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/BEING-HUMAN-1750-300x165.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/BEING-HUMAN-1750-e1421685825112.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/BEING-HUMAN-1750-e1421685825112.jpg\" alt title=\"BEING HUMAN title card [Text and performance by William Cody Maher. Camera by Signe Maehler.]\" width=\"560\" height=\"308\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14904\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If &#8220;Being Human&#8221; brings to mind <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2011\/09\/not_james_cagney.html\">Billie Whitelaw doing Samuel Beckett\u2019s \u201cNot I,\u201d<\/a> there&#8217;s nothing wrong with that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It begins in blackness with whispers. Jumps to a face with eyes closed. The eyes open. Words form: &#8220;I was almost human. But then something went wrong. I was a human being. But then I became a victim. 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