Wabash College: Theater Waiting for Godot Crawfordsville, Indiana

Theater

Curriculum

Faculty & Staff

History

Productions

- Pseudolus

- American Buffalo

- Agamemnon

- Much Ado About Nothing

- R.U.R.

- A Moon for the
Misbegotten

- The Tempest

- The Bogus Bride

- Aurelie's Waltz

- Talley's Folly

- The Misanthrope
(Moliere)

- The Mandrake

- A Doll's House

- The Real Inspector
Hound

- Galileo

- The Physicists

- The Runner Stumbles

- Baby Grand

- Twelfth Night

- Antigone

- A Streetcar Named
Desire

- The Long Voyage Home

- Indians

- The Good Woman of
Setzuan

- True West

- Eden Creek

- The School for Wives

- Elbow Rooms

- Mrs Warren's Profession

- Fortune and Men's Eyes

- Loot

- Runaways

- Tom Jones

- Waiting for Godot

- A Half-Remembered
Dream: Narcissa
Whitman's Story

- The Foreigner

- Julius Caesar

- Bus Stop

- Dapple Gray

- Holding Talks

- Of Mice and Men

- Marat/Sade

- Biloxi Blues

- Oedipus Rex

- Accidental Death of an
Anarchist

- Breaking the Code

- Greater Tuna

- Inherit the Wind

- Orphans

- The Day Room

- Voice of the Prairie

- The Merchant of Venice

- El Salvador

- The Battle of
Shallowford

- Tartuffe

- Miss Evers' Boys

- As You Like It

- Ah Wilderness!

- Glengarry Glen Ross

- Scratch

- Angels in America+
Part One: Millennium
Approaches

- The Visit

- Lysistrata

- A View from the Bridge

- Suburbia

- Charley's Aunt

- The Grapes of Wrath

- The Notebook of Trigorin

- The Boys Next Door

- Gross Indecency

- Twelve Angry Men

- Othello

- One Flew Over the
Cuckoo's Nest

- Deadfish Idaho

- Mister Roberts

- Equus

- The Complete Works of
William Shakespeare
(Abridged)

- The Time of Your Life

- The Newton Projects

- American Buffalo

- Oedipus in America

- The Comedy of Errors

- The Man Who Came to
Dinner

- The Illusion

- The Lord of the Flies

- 1776

- The Vaudevilles of
Chekhov

- This Is Our Youth

- The Andersonville Trial

- The Vietnamization of
New Jersey

- Churchill at Eight

- The Braggart Soldier

- The Elephant Man

- Side Man

- Two Gentlemen of
Verona

- Never the Sinner

- Glengarry Glen Ross

- A Flea in Her Ear

Facilities

Research

Waiting for Godot

November 16–19, 1988
A play by Samuel Beckett

Production Staff
Director: Dwight Watson
Scenic and Lighting Designer: Rob Hartz
Costume Designer: Laura Conners
Stage Manager: Marc Lechleitner '88

Cast List
Estragon: Aaron A. Spetz
Vladimir: Charles Patrick Tyndall '92
Lucky: Kaizaad Navroze Kotwal '91
Pozzo: Quadiru Wright '92
A Boy: Eric G. Daman

Production Assistance
Propsmaster: Todd Perry
Soundboard Operator: Chris Brown '89
Sound Crew: Peter Keenan '89
Master Electrician: Jay Baltisberger '89
Lightboard Operator: Kip Aitken '91
Graphics: Laura Conners

One of the towering dramas of the twentieth century, Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) has been described by critic Richard Watts as a “moving, often funny, grotesquely beautiful and utterly absorbing” play. Beckett’s story of two dilapidated bums waiting for the salvation of Godot has powerfully influenced the development of the modern theater and is undoubtedly the finest example of the plays of the Theater of the Absurd. As the two bums wait, a boy comes every day with the announcement that Godot’s arrival is imminent. But the unseen Godot never arrives, leaving the two bums to pass their time, “which would have passed anyway,” occupying themselves with meaningless rituals… and waiting. The play is a brilliant and bitter meditation, a dogged portrait of the resilience of man’s spirit in the face of little hope.

This page is part of an ongoing project to document the history of the theatre productions performed at Wabash College. If you have information not included on this page, please contact the Theater Department or Professor Dwight Watson (watsond@wabash.edu).

Program Note

Photo Album

Poster

November 16–19, 1988