(The passing of Lucky’s hat, a clear lift from Laurel and Hardy, is totally botched.) At three hours, the show is also long, even bloated. But if Elliott, working with the Academy Award winner John Ridley’s Nō Studios and the Hollywood producer Frank Marshall, has avoided excessive fealty to Beckett’s instructions - the estate approved the socially distanced production - he has not provided anything as coherent to take their place.įor one thing, the action is awkwardly staged, even beyond the necessity of executing comedy bits when the actors, if not the characters, are calling in from different locations. I liked the designer Qween Jean’s past-midnight cowboy look for Hawke and Mets cap and tank top pandemic ensemble for Leguizamo. It’s not that you need to be literal with “Waiting for Godot” it’s anything but a naturalistic drama. His constant carrying of baggage and never putting it down. His very name mocks the misfortune that is his life. He is not only bound by rope to his master, he is put on display to think and dance at Pozzos will.
Vladimir and Estragon check out of the Zoom call for much of the harangue, encouraging us to think we might do so as well. Lucky Lucky is presented more like a clown than a person he is a dog doing tricks for his master, stripped of dignity and autonomy.
And though Shawn, delivering Lucky’s impossible speech - nine minutes of gibberish - is able to make convincing emotional sense of the moment, the production as a whole doesn’t support his efforts. (He has lovely moments, though.) Trotter, who under the name Black Thought was a co-founder of the hip-hop group the Roots, uses his terrific stage voice to capture Pozzo’s first-act bluster without resorting to flailing, but has a harder time with the humbled version of the character who returns in Act II.Īt least Drake Bradshaw, in the small role of Godot’s young herald, is sweetly effective in both his appearances. 42 being to the tune of one inch-four ounce per head. That problem encourages a certain degree of overacting, especially from Hawke, as if he were trying to make himself visible from a distance. 41 the dead loss per head since the death of Bishop Berkeley.
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