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...Cabot House Drama Society ventures into modernist territory with a production of Samuel Beckett's Waiting For Godot. Though the show boasts many moments of fine acting, director Leo Cabranes-Grant does not quite bring this cast successfully through the play's admittedly difficult text...
Beckett's play was originally written in French and premiered as En Attendant Godot in 1953. Immediately recognized as a masterpiece of postwar theatre, Godot remains the most inspired and poignant articulation of the perplexity and pathos of life in the modern...
...vagrants, Vladimir (Marc Jones) and Estragon (Dave Ardell), pass the time near a tree by the side of a country road, waiting for Godot. The reason for the appointment is never given. A passerby named Pozzo (Philip Munger) eventually strolls by with Lucky (Mark Fish), his slave. Later a boy enters to relay the message that Godot will come tomorrow, "Tomorrow" is the second act, but Godot never arrives...
WAITING FOR GODOT. Samuel Beckett may be gone, but his best-known play proves immortal in this production by the Virginia Stage Company's slyly funny artistic director, Charles Towers...
Dorf and Williams have created a play with the form of absurdity, but lacking in the witty and poignant content that makes Godot so appealing. The audience drowns in a verbal melange that finally forces us to ask, along with Rob, "Is this story going somewhere...