Event

WAITING FOR GODOT

September 16 Ã¢Â" 18, 23-25. All performances at 8 pm @ The Secret Alley (180 Capp St. #4 San Francisco, CA 94110) Waiting for Godot has been one of the canonical texts in the English language since it premiered in the early 1950Ã¢ÂÂs in London and now in an era that excels in waiting, being put on hold, and a malaise towards the future, this new production delves into the world created by Beckett with a strong queer approach. By genderqueering the casting, we question what it means to relegate the existential experience of Waiting for Godot to a male dominated cast as determined by Beckett and by the Beckett Estate. As queers, we have the ability to see how certain structures determine thought and through our lens, we must question the texts that limit how we can apply ourselves. We liberate the laughter and the absurdity inherent in an existential paradigm as well as falling into the silence and the tragedy that dominates the currents in Waiting for Godot. As we experience Godot in a new millennium, many of the questions originally raised are the same but we need to ask new ones that complement the original.