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| − | ''Waiting for Godot'' by Samuel Beckett (1953). One of the most influential plays of the twentieth century, Beckett’s Absurdist masterpiece of two clowns waiting for the “coming” of the enigmatic “Godot” has been performed in numerous guises across the world by professionals, amateurs and students. Full-length play. Cast: men.
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| − | == Performance history in South Africa ==
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| − | First produced professionally in South Africa by [[Leonard Schach]] on his return from an overseas excursion in 1955. It opened at the [[Little Theatre]] in Cape Town with [[Gavin Haughton]] as Vladimir and [[Alec Bell]] as Estragon, also starring [[Donald Inskip]] and [[Gordon Roberts]], decor by [[Cecil Pym]]. The play was also presented at the [[Hofmeyr Theatre]] and then taken on a tour of several country towns in South Africa under [[Brian Brooke]]’s management. Schach claims that Cape Town audiences saw it before any other English language audiences, outside of London (Schach, 1996). Schach then collaborated with [[Leon Gluckman]] and [[Taubie Kushlick]] as co-producers to stage it once again, this time at the [[Technical College Hall]] in 1956, starring [[Alec Bell]], [[Gerrit Wessels]] and [[Gavin Haughton]]. [[NTO]] did it in 1959, directed by [[Tone Brulin]] with Brulin, [[David Herbert]], [[Gabriel Bayman]] and [[Gerrit Wessels]] [??*] Other famous local productions were a mulitracial one at [[The Space]] in Cape Town in 197*, featuring [[John Kani]] and [[Pieter-Dirk Uys]]; a Baxter Theatre Production directed by [[Donald Howarth]] in 1980 with [[John Kani]], [[Winston Ntshona]], [[Pieter-Dirk Uys]], [[Peter Piccolo]] and [[Silamour Philander]].
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| − | [[PACT]] Drama, November 1991, directed by [[Dieter Reible]], the cast consisted of [[Michael McCabe]] as Estragon, [[Dale Cutts]] as Vladimir, [[Louis van Niekerk]] as Pozzo and [[James Borthwick]] portrayed Lucky.
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| − | ==Translations and adaptations==
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| − | Locally it has also had an enormous influence on the nature of South African theatre, inter alia on the work of [[Athol Fugard]] (see ''[[Boesman and Lena]]'' for example), [[Bartho Smit]], [[André P. Brink]] and [[Charles A. Fourie]]. (See Absurdist Theatre in Part 3 Section 1: Terminology*?)
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| − | a workshopped version with the all-black cast of [[James Mthoba]] and [[Sam Williams]], directed by [[Benjy Francis]] (Durban, Soweto and in the [[Upstairs Theatre]] at the [[Market Theatre]], 1976) and [[Lara Foot-Newton]]’s production for the 2001 Grahamstown Festival (with [[Seputla Sebogodi]], [[Lionel Newton]], [[Robert Whitehead]] and [[Bheki Vilakazi]]). ''[[Duckrabbit]]'' ([[Lara Foot-Newton]] & [[Gerhard Marx]]) se Karoo weergawe van ''[[Waiting for Godot]]''.
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| − | Adapted and translated into Afrikaans by [[Suseth Brits]]: ''[[Afspraak met Godot]]''.
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| − | == Sources ==
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| − | [[ESAT Bibliography I|Inskip]], 1977. p 119.
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| − | ''PACT Info'' (1), 1991-1992.
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| − | Go to [[South African Theatre/Bibliography|ESAT Bibliography]]
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| − | Return to [[ESAT Plays 2 W|W]] in Plays II Foreign Plays
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