Summary
Vladimir and Estragon pass the time on a desolate road as they wait for the perpetually absent Godot, encountering strange travelers and engaging in existential banter to fill the void.
Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 8:00 PM Sep 27, 2025, 8:00 PM
This is a hilarious show to stunt cast, almost worth the price of admission just to listen to the confused crowd chatter. “Are we supposed to like this?” Alex Winter is revelatory for being pretty darn good in the face of (my) low expectations. (I didn’t realize how much stage experience he had.) Keanu is doing Keanu, which is, as ever, a good foil, but otherwise he gets his own special thumb on everybody’s scale. I want this to be set in the “Bill & Ted” universe.
It might as well be. Jamie Lloyd sets the thing in a section of a great pipe—material indeterminate, maybe wood laminate—that would seem to run straight through the fourth wall. It gives a vague suggestion of the infinite, or the doldrums of life, or whatever. This is about as tossed-off for Lloyd as it seems, but I didn’t hate it.
The play was good, but I need to read it to get more out of it. It’s pretty dizzying. Existential, minimal, witty, overtly metatextual (“what do I want?” “are you changed?”), but also there’s some nonsense.