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“Waiting for Godot” – a production by the Klaipėda Youth Theater based on Samuel Beckett’s famous absurdist play. The only thing that is truly clear in this Beckett story is the waiting. The main characters, Vladimir and Estragon, are waiting for Mr. Godot, to whom they want to ask a few fundamental questions and make a very important request. However, the wait is so long that Vladimir and Estragon eventually forget what they are waiting for and why. While waiting for salvation, they realize that they do not know why they want to be saved, who the savior is, or what salvation looks like. Yet it is this very waiting that becomes the characters’ only hope for life, even as the futility of their waiting turns into a tragicomic farce. 

The play takes place in an undefined, dreamlike space. Here, time has no “borders”—there is no beginning or end to it; it is unclear whether time is moving forward or backward, whether it has stopped, or whether it is going in circles. This ambiguity of time and space further intensifies the absurdity of the waiting, but thanks to it, the audience is drawn into the surreal world of the play, where Vladimir and Estragon wander alongside them, waiting for Godot’s answers.

Director: Paulius Pinigis
Playwright: Samuel Beckett
Cast: Simonas Lunevičius, Donatas Želvys, Aurimas Bareikis, Osvaldas Tokarevas, Laurynas Luotė
Set Designer: Rūta Venskutė
Composer: Kristupas Biržietis
Lighting Designer: Justas Bø
Assistant: Elzbieta Girkantaitė