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By ENEWARIDIDEKE EKANPOU Occasional Christmas is everyman’s entitlement however the period of waiting. The peak of ‘ayebeism’ (stupidity) is   to laze away and wait for one’s occasional Christmas in ...
As it was decreed by God, Tompolo was contractually engaged to stop crude oil theft and pipeline vandalism in the Niger Delta ...
Never bet on the Irish weather. A week ago a site-specific performed reading of Samuel Beckett’s play Waiting for Godot was presented on a bleak plateau in the Fermanagh-Cavan borderlands. It ...
“Right now we are waiting for Godot, and I don’t see that emerging anytime soon,” he said, referencing the Samuel Beckett play about two men debating under a tree while they wait for someone ...
Starting in February 2025, Corrib Theatre will examine Waiting for Godot ’s successors with Pass Over, a contemporary American spin on the text with a focus on Black male friendship, and Godot ...
Godot never shows up. Still, he says, “I think Waiting for Godot is one of the most brilliant plays ever written. It is the play that brought me and my wife together.” Wilson and his future spouse met ...
Irish critic Vivian Mercier famously described “Waiting for Godot” as a play in which “nothing happens, twice.” Nothing happens in Act I, and nothing happens in Act II. This deceptive simplification ...
This post was updated Dec. 1 at 9:52 p.m. “Waiting for Godot” gives exactly what it promises, for better or worse. Famously described as “a play in which nothing happens,” Samuel Beckett ...
When he speaks, there’s often a hint of a whine. Aasif Mandvi, left, and Rainn Wilson in “Waiting for Godot” at Geffen Playhouse, directed by Judy Hegarty Lovett.
On a country road by a leafless tree, vagrants Estragon and Vladimir wait for an enigmatic figure named Godot. In time, they are met by Pozzo (Lovett), who bullies his servant, Lucky (Stein).
Waiting for something that may never happen is a bad way to fight a war. After all, Godot never does appear in the famous absurdist play describing just such a wait. Op-ed ...