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“The reason to do it is the way that it resonates in this moment and to do it with the people in the room,” director Arin Arbus said, though she recognized that it’s “rare that there’s a strong production” of Godot. Now, she’s taking her swing at the oft-produced (and befuddling) play, a staple of absurdist playwriting largely associated with French existentialism, though the openness of the text has encouraged highly varied interpretations.