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The Carolina Journal, Wednesday, April 10, 1968 Page 3
Production Of ^Waiting For Godot’
Is Excellent, Thought-provoking
Roger Grosswald, as Lucky, turned in an awe-provokir® per
formance — the highlight of the play was a three page oration
he delivered with frightening exactness and a driving beat.
(Photo By Fred Jordan)
A REVIEW BY RICHARD ALSOP
The Fine Arts Department on
this campus staged Samuel Bec
kett’s dramatic play “Waiting
For Godot’’ last Thursday
through Saturday evenings. The
play, based on a kind of ab
straction, depicts two men, Es-
tragon (John Hostetter) and Vla
dimir (Paul Atwell), in what is
termed by most commentators
as a parable.
Estragon and Vladimir, (aff
ectionately known to each other
as Gogo and Didi), who clearly
represent men in general, are
made abstract in the most cruel
and literal sense. They have been
pulled away from the world and
now must find some way to make
life more meaningful. This in
turn makes the parable one in
which life has no point.
The tree, the only visible scen
ery, becomes the symbol of the
world as a prominent instru
ment tor suicide, or as life as
the non-committing of suicide.
All in all, the two heroes are
not barely alive but no longer
living in the world. Richard Gantt
did an excellent job with the
important set decoration.
The superb acting of the cast
was so outstanding that the at
tentive listener never feels he
is watching events as they hap
pen but living them instead.
The casual attitude Estragon
and Vladimir possess in believ
ing “We are waiting, therefore
there must be something we are
waiting for’’ is personified in
their inability to recognize the
senselessness of their position.
After being told several times
that their “saviour’’ Godot would
not be there but would most
certainly come later, it becomes
apparent that Godot wiU never
come—and that perhaps, Godot
never exists. His name is only
the symbol tor the tact that a
life that goes on pointlessly mis
interprets itself as waiting tor
something.
The play suffers from a lack
of cohesion mainly because lack
of cohesion is the subject mat
ter. That the events and frag
ments of conversation which con
stitute the play arise without
motivation, or simply repeat
themselves, needs to be denied;
for the lack of motivation is mo
tivated by the subject matter.
B; is quite understandable that
Didi and Gogo show expressions
of despair while they sit and wait
for Godot. (Photo By Fred Jordan)
Didi and Gogo inspect newcomer Lucky whom they find strange-
and an excellent way of passing the time while waiting. (Photo
By Fred Jordan)
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