“Waiting for Godot” on tour in China, on stage at the Wuzhen Theater Festival on 20 and 21 October.
After its debut in January 2023 at the Storchi Theater in Modena and a long Italian tour, Samuel Beckett's masterpiece Waiting for Godot directed by the Greek master Theodoros Terzopoulos, the 20 and the 21 October will be a guest, thanks to the support ofItalian Cultural Institute in China, in one of the most important Chinese festivals in Asia: the Wuzhen Theater Festival, co-founded by Chen Xianghong, Huang Lei, Stan Lai and Meng Jinghui, and organized by Culture Wuzhen Co., Ltd.
The great Beckettian classic, in the expert hands of Terzopoulos, transforms into a lens for deciphering the Other. On stage, an exceptional cast: Paolo Musio, Stefano Randisi, Enzo Vetrano, and young people Giulio Germano Cervi e Rocco Ancarola. The music is signed by the Greek composer Panayiotis Velianitis.
An Emilia Romagna Teatro ERT / National Theater and Teatro di Napoli – Teatro Bellini production, in collaboration with Attis Theater Company.
Waiting for Godot is among the plays that have most marked the history of twentieth-century theatre: written by Beckett at the end of the 1952s, published in French in 5 and staged for the first time at the Theater de Babylone in Paris on 1953 January XNUMX, it is Of one of the most famous texts of the "theatre of the absurd", which revolves around the sterile dialogue between two characters suspended in the condition of waiting.
With his stylistic signature, Terzopoulos creates a lively dialogue between contemporaneity and Beckettian drama, treated as a lens for reading and interpreting the present, among its profound contradictions and tragic drifts. In his version, the story is set in a world in ruins, in a very near future in which all current and past wounds appear exacerbated. In this context, the question arises as to what the minimum conditions are for thinking about a life worth living.
«Our representation of Waiting for Godot is set in the "ruins of the world", in a future more or less close to us, where all the wounds of the present and past will be kept open. The same goes for expectations - comments Terzopoulos –. At this limit of human existence, what are the minimum possible conditions to restart life, a life worth living? In Waiting for Godot there are two possible answers and there we intend to support our work: the first is the effort to communicate and coexist with the Other, the one who is in front of us, despite the obstacles, even when these seem formidable! The second is the effort to communicate with the Other within us, this inscrutable and dark zone of repressed desires and fears, of forgotten senses and instincts, the region of the animal and the divine, where madness and dreams are born, the delirium and nightmare. This is the journey we will try to take: towards the Other within us and towards the Other outside, opposite, far from us. This is the journey we try to make every day. Waiting for what? The redemption of life from the chains of death? The encounter with the Human, the end of every humiliation of the human by the human? Nothingness or Waiting, as Beckett says derisively? But is there another way of imagining the emancipated human, without breaking down the walls that separate this "inside" from this "outside"?".
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