Warten auf Godot - Schedule, Program & Tickets

German by Elmar Tophoven

ESTRAGON What should we do now that we are happy?
VLADIMIR We are waiting for Godot.
ESTRAGON Oh yes...

Waiting for Godot – written in the shadow of the great war, on the eve of new wars? Today, more than ever, people are waiting for rescue, for salvation from the great fear of wars, destruction, the progressive end of the world, and the apocalypse. This makes Beckett's text frighteningly modern and relevant. Aren't we, like "Wladimir" and "Estragon", waiting on the side of the country road, ending up in the middle of nowhere? Contemporaries and magicians at the same time. And “Godot” – is he really the long-awaited savior? Or is it the mysterious “Pozzo”, on the way – where? – with his unfortunate servant – who is also called “Lucky”? Redemption or evil mockery? We wait, laugh and cry with them, for our "Godot" - or has he come long ago?

After Bernhard's The German Lunch Table and Ionesco's The King Dies in the Kammerspiele, Claus Peymann is staging the film for the third time in his new "home", the Theater in der Josefstadt.

Subject to change.