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Bottom’s acting troupe, meanwhile, provides low comedy of the highest order, as the bickering performers rehearse their play with a heaping dose of vaudevillian slapstick.

What connects the novels and the stories is Barry’s style, a nervy mix of high poetry and low comedy that he applies with unceasing vigor.

Beckett, who miraculously balanced high literature with low comedy, is too complex for single-minded interpretations.

But he’s now knocking 70 and suffering through an undignified low comedy of back problems, tinnitus and spiritual malaise.

“It has this story of pride and love and betrayal and loyalty, and also low comedy.”