The play’s juxtapositions of the loquacious Winnie with her taci-turn husband, of her frenzied upper limbs with her immured legs, and of her cheery attitude with slippages of despair are part and parcel of its dramatic world. When Dwan’s speech became a touch declamatory, one could feel that she was earnestly attempting to leave a vocal imprint on the world and elicit Willie’s attention and response. Reframing Winnie’s increasing submersion in the mound as a replacement of brimming life by all-consuming decay, it brought out the symbolic dimensions of Beckett’s play. “what difficulties here, for the mind,” says Winnie, “to have been always what I am—and so changed from what I was.”