CMU School of Drama


Thursday, December 08, 2011

Review: Quantum tweaks a classic with 'Fat Beckett'

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: Brainy theater critics and academics have long regaled us with the idea that Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" is really very funny.
But, most productions prefer to emphasize the more dour and philosophical side of two men waiting at a crossroads, beneath a barren tree for someone -- or maybe something -- that never arrives.
Irish theater critic Vivian Mercier has famously described it as "a play where nothing happens, twice."

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