- What: Waiting for Godot - a play by Samuel Beckett
- Where: La-Z-Boy Center - Meyer Theater, located on Monroe County Community College Main Campus at 1555 S. Raisinville Rd. - ( map )
- When: Friday, Oct. 5 and Saturday, Oct. 6 at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 7 at 2 p.m.
- Cost: Reserved Seating: $10
- Note: This performance is intended for mature audiences.
Excerpts from a Sep 26, 2007 MCCC press release :
MCCC’s QuagMeyer Productions will present Waiting for Godot, a “tragicomedy” by Samuel Beckett.
According to the Massachusetts Review, Waiting for Godot was recently voted the most significant English language play of the 20th century in a British Royal National Theatre poll of 800 playwrights, actors, directors and journalists.
In its utter simplicity, Waiting for Godot is in the classic tradition of French playwriting. However, the play has its own beauty and suggestiveness and makes its own comment on man’s absurd hope and the insignificance of man.
The story line revolves around two seemingly homeless men waiting for someone — or something — named Godot near a tree on a barren stretch of road The men proceed to inhabit a drama spun from their own consciousness. The purely comic aspect of the play involves traditional routines that come from the entire history of farce, from the Romans and the Italians and the red-nosed clown of the modern circus.According to the Massachusetts Review, Waiting for Godot was recently voted the most significant English language play of the 20th century in a British Royal National Theatre poll of 800 playwrights, actors, directors and journalists.
What would you think of using Godot as a metaphor for "leadership' from the public sector?
We all know that politicians are administrators of our tax dollars, but since they are term limited, and must work within the confines of the office to which they have been elected, they cannot, by definition "lead". Yet, since we have a "strong" mayor system, everyone expects leadership from the mayor, when he, or any other politician cannot provide it.
So, we stand around on a corner, waiting for "leadership" to happen, when it can't.
Even the libertarian WSPD suggests that things would get better if we elected new people, They would be hampered by the same scenario.
What we need is a new "Committee of 100", or other private sector organization.
Until then, we all will continually be "waiting for Godot".
posted by lew on Oct 05, 2007 at 01:22:42 pm #