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Waiting for Godot or is it Blinken?
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Waiting for Godot, directed by Scott Elliott, for the New Group.
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Sometime in the past year, you ve perhaps been on a seemingly interminable video conference and thought,
I can t go on. But you go on. What other option is there? You have your ways of surviving the tedium, fine-tuned over this terrible year, just as Jeffrey Toobin has his. As have we all. And because of that, you might truly for the first time understand the plight of the aimless characters in Samuel Beckett s
It takes the form of a Zoom call between Estragon (John Leguizamo) and Vladimir (Ethan Hawke), here portrayed as graying Gen-Xers surviving Covid in their dingy New York City apartments, which are obviously rent-controlled judging by the antique state of the fixtures (Vladimir appears to have a Franklin stove). Things are bad, but these stalwarts have come too far to lose heart now. We should have thought of it a million years ago, Vladimir cheerfully observes, in the nineties.
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Ethan Hawke and John Leguizamo star as Beckettâs tragicomic tramps â minus the comic part.
Clockwise from top left: John Leguizamo as Estragon; Tarik Trotter as Pozzo; Wallace Shawn as Lucky; and Ethan Hawke as Vladimir in the New Groupâs digital production of âWaiting for Godot.â Credit.The New Group Off Stage
Waiting for Godot
Early audiences were baffled by âWaiting for Godot.â Even Peter Hall, who in 1955 directed the first English language production, claimed not to understand it. When actors with access to its author, Samuel Beckett, demanded explanations from him, he usually professed himself helpless to answer.