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"Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful!" declares one of the protagonists in "Waiting for Godot."
On the contrary, my friend: The nothingness of Samuel Beckett's iconic 1953 play is a joy to behold in the top-notch production at A Noise Within.
The idea of giving joy to audiences might well have disgusted the famously morose Beckett, and "Godot" isn't uplifting, although it is quite funny. The play is an existential head-scratcher that eludes analysis. The critic Brooks Atkinson described it on the occasion of its Broadway debut as "a mystery wrapped in an enigma" and concluded that the play is "puzzling and convincing at the same time."
Vladimir (Robertson Dean) and Estragon (Joel Swetow) are bowler- wearing drifters who hang around a barren landscape in hopes of meeting Godot, who is never identified and who,...