“Waiting for God” is a performance by Klaipėda Youth Theatre based on Samuel Beckett’s famous absurdist play. The only thing that is really clear in Beckett’s story is waiting. The main characters Vladimir and Estragon are waiting for Mr Godot, to whom they want to ask some fundamental questions and ask something very important. But the wait is so long that Vladimir and Estragon end up forgetting what they are waiting for and why. As they wait for salvation, they realise that they do not know what they want to be saved for, who the saviour is or what salvation looks like. But waiting becomes the only hope of life for the characters in the play, even though the futility of waiting turns into a tragicomic farce.
The performance takes place in an indeterminate, dream-like space. Time has no “shores” – there is no beginning and no end, it is not clear whether time is moving forward or backward, whether it is stopped or whether it is circling. This indeterminacy of time and space adds to the absurdity of waiting, but it also brings the audience into the surreal world of the performance, where Vladimir and Estragon wander along with them and wait for Godot’s answers.
