Waiting for Godot

With each line and each nuance of the story. I was learning more and more of why I love this play so much. This production was a masterful integration of the comic clown and the desperate fool, trying to make sense of this arid land of waiting in which you knew from the start that they had no hope of understanding and no hope of moving forward. They were the perfect team of hating and loving each other.  They had a relationship in which you knew they would never be able to part from or survive without. The play took place in one long runway of a highway with simple stripes painted from one side to the other. There was one rock, and one tree that in the second act boasted two small green leaves. And that was all that was needed. There was no heavy concept added on top of it. It was the simplicity of the script and two fabulous actors left to tell the story. It brought both, tears of sadness and huge laughs to the story.  I also felt a unique thing to the story during Lucky’s well-known monologue of the β€œThink Pig β€œhe brought sense and logic to what is usually just a page-long monologue of mush. You really saw him make sense of this scattered debris of language. It was such an awesome fete. If I were to have one criticism of the play, I would say that the character of Pozzo was not so well defined. He was not merely as nuanced and detailed as the other characters on stage, but this was a small price to pay for seeing this masterpiece.

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