This is my second post in five days about a WNYC show. Clearly, while everybody else dashes off into the new media, I’m hunkered over the radio dial, blissfully churning my own butter and putting up preserves. But this interview with Willem Dafoe on the Leonard Lopate show adds a fun dimension to the new Richard Foreman spectacular Idiot Savant at the Public, particularly when he raises a wicked eyebrow (you can actually hear it over the air) at Foreman’s avowal that this time he’s serious! He’s quitting! No more plays for him! Willem, for one, thinks Foreman will be back.
If you’re hungry for a little vintage Dafoe (not to mention a baby-faced Jon Stewart) watch this 2002 interview, in which he manages to shoehorn in some touching chat about his love for the theater, or pop over to UbuWeb to watch Rhyme ‘Em to Death, the Wooster Group’s bizarre film version of the “trial of the goat” sequence from The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Perfect amuse-bouches for the Idiot Savant…
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