Vermont Theatre Company Presents WAITING FOR GODOT, 1/29-2/7

Vermont Theatre Company will bring Samuel Beckett's first professionally produced and immediately controversial play, "Waiting for Godot," to the Hooker Dunham theatre on Main Street in Brattleboro. The play opened on January 29, with remaining performances on February 5th-6th at 7:30 pm, and  February 7th at 3:00pm.

Beckett initially wrote "Waiting for Godot" in French and it opened at the small Left Bank Theatre de Babylone in Paris, in 1953. Combining both tragic and comic elements, the play's poetic dreamscapes pushes doubt and ambiguity to question our existence. Beckett's characters hysterically exchange nonsensical banter as they pratfall across a bleak landscape on a country road. Director Charles Monette has added further controversy by casting two women in the traditionally male lead roles of Vladimir and Estragon.

The Vermont Theatre Company is a nonprofit theatre organization which was begun in Burlington and reestablished in Brattleboro in 1984 by Ray Jenness, the original Artist Director and Mastermind. productions have ranged from comedy to tragedy, contemporary to classics. Some on that list include Steel Magnolias, Glengarry GLen Ross, Arsenic and Old Lace, On Golden Pond, ‘Night Mother, and The Miser. We have produced five musicals, including The Fantasticks, She Loves Me, Happy End, Sweet Charity and Toad of Toad Hall.

In 1990 VTC launched what has become a tradition, an annual Shakespeare in the Park production at the Rotary Club Amphitheater in Brattleboro's Living Memorial Park. Presented on the last weekend of June, it has attracted over 7000 picnickers over the years.

 

 

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