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Nothing happens (twice) in Waiting for Godot

by Albert Williams

Dennis Začek's solid staging lets Samuel Beckett's existential comedy be. Written in the wake of World War II, with its carnage and cruelty committed by all sides on a scale previously unimaginable, Irish writer Samuel Beckett's 1949 Waiting for Godot is timeless and of the moment"a bleakly comic portrait of human beings coping with the basic, harsh realities of existence while vainly …

SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 6:13pm on November 19, 2019