À ESPERA DE GODOT

Waiting
for Godot – a title that has become proverbial all over the world. Perhaps no
other play in the 20th century has had such an expressive and global reach. It’s
legitimate to say that, on first night of this “tragicomedy in two acts”, Samuel
Beckett completely changed not only dramatic literature but also the condition
of the theatre itself. On a road, by a tree, two down and out creatures,
straight out of vaudeville or silent films, keep themselves entertained with
games and provocations, laughing and crying, debating everything: a pair of
boots, the Gospels, suicide…They wait for someone who doesn’t come, who never
comes: Godot, a mystery character that Beckett always refused to identify with
God, because  what interested him more
than what we wait for, was what happens while we wait.

By: Samuel
Beckett | Direction: Gábor Tompa | Translation: Francisco Luís Parreira | Set
Design and wardrobe: Andrei Both | Actors: João Melo, Maria Leite, Mário
Santos, Rodrigo Santos and Vicente Melo  

Estimated
duration: 2h20