The Wait Is On

Produced by Gare St Lazare Island and starring Rainn Wilson, Aasif Mandvi, and Conor Lovett, catch this surrealist masterpiece at the Geffen Playhouses' Gil Gates Theater this winter. First seen in 1953, Waiting For Godot, in which "nothing happens, twice", has become one of playwright Samuel Beckett's most recognizable works, braiding together surrealism, philosophy, comedy and tragedy as the two central characters Vladimir and Estragon await the arrival of the titular Godot.

What Is The Story?

Waiting for Godot centres on the colourful conversations between two tramps Vladimir and Estragon as they wait for the arrival of someone named Godot. As they perform mundane tasks and converse about a wide array of subjects from the trivial to the serious, they encounter three other characters who compound their experience of nothingness, i.e. Vladimir and Estragon keep waiting for someone who'll never show up in a theatrical limbo that poses many an empirical question but answers none.