Waiting For Godot

Waiting For Godot

Written by: Samuel Beckett 

(City streets of) New Orleans    11/2/2007 - 11/10/2007 (schedule)

Category:  Drama · Professional

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The play will take place over 2 weekends in November in 2 neighborhoods — the middle of an intersection in the Lower 9th Ward & the front yard of an abandoned house in Gentilly.
The production re-imagines post-Katrina landscape of New Orleans as the setting for the 20th century’s most emblematic story of waiting, and in doing so, illuminates the personal & political conditions facing the people of New Orleans & the evacuees in surrounding cities.
http://www.creativetime.org/programs/archive/2007/chan/

Total performances: 5

Cast
J. Kyle Manzay.... Estragon *
Mark McLaughlin.... Lucky *
T. Ryder Smith.... Pozzo *
Wendell Pierce.... Vladimir *
Michael Pepp.... Boy
Tony Felix.... Boy
*=featured role

Staff
Maggie Immler .... 
Nato Thompson .... 
Christopher McElroen ....  Director
Paul Chan ....  Artistic Director
Shane Brennan ....  House Manager
Dan Krall ....  Production Manager
Jeffrey Glaser ....  Production Stage Manager
Gavin Kroeber ....  Producer
LaBarbara ....  Production Assistant

News

PLAY IN THE STREET
For New Orleanians, 'Waiting for Godot' hits the spot
by David Cuthbert
NOLA.com - The Times-Picayune 11/02/07
 
Backstage: Godot is great
Samuel Beckett's classic 'Waiting for Godot' arrives on a street corner in the blighted Lower 9th Ward to overflow crowds, and demonstrates just how powerful and relevant theater can be in post-K New Orleans.
by David Cuthbert
NOLA.com - The Times-Picayune 11/06/07

Notes: Waiting for Godot in New Orleans is a multi-faceted project including:
* free public performances of Samuel Beckett’s play Waiting for Godot
* theater workshops, educational seminars, and community conversations and dinners
* a “shadow” fund
* a publication and a short film
Presented by Creative Time in collaboration with the Classical Theatre of Harlem & New Orleans Partners: University of New Orleans, Xavier University, Dillard University, NOCCA High School, Lusher High School, Frederic Douglass High School, John McDonough High School, Students at the Center, Neighborhood Story Project, The Porch, and the Renaissance Project. Creative Time Curator: Nato Thompson.
Waiting for Godot is presented in association with the Cinque Group
References: Media; MPC; Creative Time, http://www.creativetime.org/programs/archive/2007/chan/
Record created by: DizzyMsLizzy


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