If Shakespeare isn’t your cup of tea, there are other options this year at the Stratford Festival in Stratford, Ontario. One of them is Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. I remember reading the play in high school many years ago but this is the first production I have seen. I especially wanted to see it because Paul Gross (Due South, Slings and Arrows, Men With Brooms, Passchendaele, Getting Married in Buffalo Jump to name a few) was playing Vladimir. Tom McCamus, a Stratford regular, plays Estragon. The two play off each other well. As the director, Molly Atkinson, explains: “the play is not about who Godot is, but about the fact that we are all waiting. Waiting forces us to confront the passage of time. It’s easier to ignore time passing when you are busy doing, thinking, working, playing or praying.”
Passing some time watching Gross and McCamus isn’t a bad thing.
Waiting for Godot | Stratford Festival
