Hey Reader! In my 20s, I took an acting/directing workshop with theater legend Joseph Chaikin. I was attracted to his class by his working relationship with legendary writer Sam Shepard. In Chaikin's class, however, I fell in love with a different playwright named Sam: Samuel Beckett. The tears of the world are a constant quality Beckett excelled at creating theater that appears absurd to a casual observer: characters deliver monologues while buried to their necks in heaps of trash; they have...