Waiting for Godot at the Teatro dei Differenti

Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett at his most bleak, was played last night in the Teatro dei Differenti in front of a packed house.

Gianluigi Pizzetti,and Stefano Gragnani, the two tramps, Guilio Federico Janni as the strutting Pozzo, Giulio Cancelli as the ever pedaling Lucky and Tortoid as the Ragazzo all working under the able direction of the Regia, Carlo Da Prato, showed us a glimpse into the world where we are always waiting, where the act of waiting is never over and yet it mysteriously starts up again each day.

The action, in the same way, describes a circle. Each day is the return to the beginning. Nothing is completed because nothing can be completed. The despair in the play, which is never defined as such but which pervades all the lack of action and gives the play its metaphysical colour, is the fact that the two tramps cannot not wait for Godot, and the corollary fact that he cannot come.

More images and a small MP3 file of a wonderful garbled 3 minutes speech from Lucky when his hat is placed on his head and he is ordered to think can be downloaded here


Vladimir: Well, shall we go?
Estragon: Yes, let's go.
They do not move.