“A thrilling, melancholy, comic slice of life on earth.”
The New Yorker
“One of the true masterpieces of the 20th century.”
New York Times
Announcing Bas Bleu Theatre’s Season Finale
WAITING FOR GODOT
May 24 thru June 16, 2024
by Nobel Prize winning Irish author Samuel Beckett
Directed by Laura Jones
Considered by theater critics and literary scholars to be the most influential
playwright of the twentieth century, Samuel Beckett’s watershed play Waiting for
Godot ushered in a new age of theater. Still generating both controversy and
popular acclaim thirty-five years after his death, Beckett’s seminal work is a
postmodern tragicomedy, pushing the boundaries of image and sound, genres and
conventions, meaning and form.
Two men Vladimir and Estragon are lost souls abandoned on the highway of life.
Kindred spirits, the play is first and foremost about their life-long friendship. It’s
about what The New Yorker recently described as “the pyrotechnics of living
together—argumentation and consolation, recrimination and love.” The action is
profound in its stark simplicity. They spend their days on “this bitch of an earth”
waiting for someone named Godot whom they hardly know, yet whom they hope
will come and save them from oblivion. While waiting they contemplate or try
numerous inadequate remedies or ways of passing the time: light diversions,
turning towards nature, vaudeville routines, and, above all, many language games
featuring Beckett’s masterful blend of poetry and humor.
Director Laura Jones has studied and experimented with the staging of Beckett’s
drama for forty years. “Beckett’s work confronts us with the most persistent
philosophical questions about life, being, death, meaning, and language. Its themes
resonate remarkably with today’s world. We all live together in uncertain times.
We all need relationships that allow us to prop each other up against an often cold,
comfortless world of radical uncertainty. And I would argue that a sense of humor
is what keeps us going on when our daily existence seems out of our control.”
What are YOU waiting for?
Tickets are available now by visiting www.basbleu.org or by calling the box office at 970-498-8949. Tickets start at only $6.
Company: Bas Bleu Theatre
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