Waiting For Godot

Well blimey! I’ve fallen way behind on this blog…here’s an update. Last month, we went to see Waiting for Godot, at Circa Theatre. This was their headline production for May, and we went along to a matinee performance on a Sunday afternoon, so no dining experience beforehand or afterhand.

Waiting For Godot, as you may be aware, is a play in which very little happens. Not only that, the second act is very similar to the first act so, in the words of Vivian Mercier, it is “…a play in which nothing happens, twice.” Further, the stage directions were provided by Becket so there isn’t a lot of room for improvisation. I’ve not seen it all the way through before – I seem to recall watching part of the Stewart/McKellern version on the tell-o-vision many years ago.

There’s not much more to say about it, really. The production was up to standard, but they didn’t do anything overtly new with the material. Pozzo was played by Hobbit actor Peter Hambleton (Gloin), and the other parts by Circa stalwarts Jeff Kingsford-Brown and Andrew Foster. We emerged, into the now dark and cold wind of a Wellington night.