En Attendant – by Ms Paige Turner
It’s an apt phrase: ‘en attendant’ meaning ‘waiting’ …
I spent 1982 and 83 as an attendant to Queen Hippolyta at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’. And as an invisible First Fairy attending to Titania, the queen. I spent those summer seasons waiting for my break in more senses than one.
‘En Attendant Godot’- Beckett’s ‘Waiting for Godot’. My mother was none too polite about that play. To what do we attend? To what do we give attention? Well, when we wait we attend to what we are waiting for whether this be the publication of poetry collections or babies. Waiting gives us time to think …