Winter Donnelly ( Frozen, Our Dear Dead Drug Lord) guest starred on tonight’s episode of “Manifest” on NBC!ĭisney Channel star Milo Manheim ( Generation Me) appeared on “Stars in the House” earlier tonight!Īlso earlier tonight, Joshua Turchin ( Trevor, Forbidden Broadway, The Pill) went live on Instagram with Lily Brooks O’Briant ( Matilda tour) for a Q&A and to raise money for St. The New Group’s production of Waiting for Godot is now streaming for a limited time! Congratulations to Drake Bradshaw and the company! For more information, visit the Quintessence Theatre Group website. Waiting for Godot plays through February 18. But I also thought it was the saddest thing I ever heard. The line often gets a laugh, and it did here, too. “Perhaps you’ll have socks someday,” he says. The ever-helpful Vladimir suggests a bright side. In Act II, Estragon discovers that the pair of worn old boots he discarded because they pinched his feet have mysteriously become too big. One particular moment among many sticks in my mind now, hours later. I’m betting they will feel-as I did-that they are discovering something new and deeply moving. The tempo of the show sometimes lags-there too many long pauses paradoxically reduce the effectiveness of the ones that really need to be there.īut those are minor quibbles about a production that should be seen by all Philadelphia theater fans-especially those who think they know what Waiting for Godot is about. Gregory Isaacs is a charming actor, but his debonair Pozzo softens some of the needed harshness. Though much here is revelatory, there are a few drawbacks. Hernandez, by turns wrenchingly naturalistic, and thrillingly virtuosic). At its premier, the play shocked its audience as it presented a new type of theatre which used very unconventional methods. It was written by Samuel Beckett and performed for the first time in Paris on January 5th, 1953. It’s nearly unbearable to watch the dehumanization of Lucky (an amazing performance by J. Waiting for Godot is the most well-known play from the Theatre of the Absurd movement. Pyne Jr.’s abstract panels evoke trees painted by Thomas Hart Benton?) One specific reference really brings the point home-a line suggesting Didi and Gogo once picked fruit in Macon Country, France, here becomes the Napa Valley, transporting us to the world of Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath.Īll of this makes the story almost unbearably poignant, sharpened particularly by Hobbs’ low-key sweetness (his Didi really seems the moral center of the play), and the sense of painful effort behind X’s eloquent courtliness. (Is it my imagination, or do the gnarled textures of James F. As Becketts title indicates, the central act of the play is waiting, and one of the most salient aspects of the play is that nothing really seems to happen. There’s a distinctively depression-era look and feel to this Godot, visible in large and small ways, including a visiting boy (delightfully played by Lyam David-Kilker) who seems straight out of an Our Gang comedy. LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in Waiting for Godot, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work. Hobbs and X look careworn, older, more destitute than we expect-less like vaudeville hobos than homeless men. Yet from the first moment, there’s an unexpected sense of gravitas. These two marvelous actors are, individually and especially together, at the peak of their game, including pointed banter executed with fencing-like precision, and even snazzy song-and-dance. In particular, it feels more emotionally overwhelming than I’ve ever seen.ĭon’t get me wrong-the playful clowning is still here, as Estragon, also known as Gogo (Frank X) and Vladimir, called Didi (Johnnie Hobbs, Jr.) bide their time waiting for the arrival of a mysterious stranger. The upshot is that Waiting for Godot, a play whose brilliance and humor I thought I knew, now seems freshly-minted in director Ken Marini’s extraordinary production at Quintessence Theatre Group. Is it the exceptional imagination of this production, or the scary instability of our current world? Probably both.
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