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Waiting for Godot

Read the review of Waiting For Godot
"Have you seen 'Godot' lately? Now's the time"
Published: Thursday, March 6, 2006

The acclaimed play by Samuel Beckett

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Waiting for Godot opens March 3; directed by Johnny Ormsbee

Tickets: $10 (all general admission) on sale beginning Feb. 24

Two dilapidated bums (Michael Watkins as Vladimir and Michael Scott as Estrogan) fill their days as painlessly as they can. They wait for Godot, a personage who will explain their interminable insignificance, or put their an end to it. They are resourceful, with quarrels and their dependence on one another, as children are. They pass the time "which would have passed anyway." A brutal man of means (Steve Mandell as Pozzo) leads a weakling slave (Richard Leebrick as Lucky) who does his bidding. Every day a child (Elena Stylos as the boy) comes from the unknown Godot and evasively puts the big arrival off until tomorrow. It is a tragic view. Yet in performance, most of it is brilliant, bitter comedy.

“Since Waiting for Godot has no simple meaning, one seizes on Mr. Beckett’s experience of two worlds to account for his style and point of view. The point of view suggests Sartre—bleak, dark, disgusted. The style suggests Joyce—pungent and fabulous. Put the two together and you have some notion of Mr. Beckett’s acrid cartoon of the story of mankind.” —Brooks Atkinson

Waiting for Godot Auditions

Waiting for Godot has already been cast. Please see our Auditions page for upcoming auditions for other VLT shows!

Waiting for Godot Show Dates

Waiting for Godot Cast

(In order of appearance)

Waiting for Godot Production Staff