waiting for godot

By Samuel Beckett

 

Staged and performed as a part of the 7. Festival of International Students Theater (FIST)

Guest performances in Pančevo in2012, Atelje 212 in 2013, Dom Omladine Beograd in 2015.

Participation on the International student theater festival (Its Festival) in Amsterdam, nomination for the Guest award

Honorary guest performance at Histrion festival in Prokuplje, Serbia in August 2016.

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currently performed at                     in Belgrade 

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Created as a part of FIST, our interpretation of Waiting for Godot experienced a major success. This is mainly due to the brilliant performance of the young actors, but is also a result of our concept of "respecting" the play. We didn't try to impose our interpretations of the text by giving the answers to the major questions of "who or what is Godot". We just staged the play as it is - a series of situations that the actors-characters (that we call "charactors") create in order to kill time, both of the audience and themselfes, in a most pleasing way.

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We have drawn the absurdist drama into the here and now. The characters are waiting and we wait with them, while they attempt to entertain us and themselves. Surreal, daring and with a great sense of humour as the rules of the game are revealed along the way.

 

The outsanding scenography in the spirit of constructivism, created exclusively from stage platforms, provides a perfect playground for this game. The "charactors" are very much aware of the audience; this simple awareness culminates in an interaction near the end. 

 

It is a show about friendship and loneliness, domination and subduing, narcissism and the weakness of the ego, about boredom and fun. The humor of Beckett is not metaphysical; it is the humor of our everyday life. 

 

"The guts to interpret Waiting for Godot in this way has moved the jury deeply. In spite of the linguistic barrier we were swept along and moved by the character’s madness andhopelessness. The unexpected caesura in the performance was arresting and exciting." From the nomination for the IT's Festival Guest Award in Amsterdam 2012. 

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