One of the central plays of the 20th century, Samuel Beckett's famously bleak comedy Waiting for Godot has been adapted, reinvented, and reimagined countless times, but Portlanders would do well to see Corrib Theatre's faithful staging, which runs for the next two weekends at CoHo Theatre.
Beckett was a member of the French Resistance during the Nazi occupation and World War II and wrote Godot in the setting of a blasted, post-war Europe, and the work inhabits a setting informed by that time, but not exactly placed there.
The eternal fascination of Godot- in which Estragon himself declares 'nothing happens'-is that when the work is attentively staged, it offers us all the great existential questions of the 20th century. What do we do while waiting to be saved?
This fails, leading to one of Beckett's most famous pieces: an unpunctuated soliloquy from Lucky-a sentence of over 700 words-performed with great pacing and physicality by Elias.
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