Article: Greeting `Waiting for Godot' with recognition, hostility

WAITING FOR GODOT

Play in two acts by Samuel Beckett

Directed by David Wheeler. Set, Derek McLane. Costumes, by

Catherine Zuber. Lighting, John Ambrosone. Sound,

Christopher Walker. Presented by American Repertory

Theatre

At: Loeb Drama Center, through Feb. 12

CAMBRIDGE -- Samuel Beckett didn't expect the public to understand "Waiting for Godot." He was after something far more radical: He wanted the audience to recognize it.

His epochal accomplishment was to translate a psychological state everyone has often felt, but no one had so clearly expressed before, into specific theatrical terms of character, language, movement, space and light. Vladimir and Estragon are bums ...

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