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Waiting for Godot (New Yiddish Rep)
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About the show
New Yiddish Rep presents a new staging of Samuel Beckett's masterwork, performed entirely in Yiddish with English super-titles. More…
The dark and often humorous language of "Waiting for Godot" comments upon the absurdity of humanity, how we expect and hope, despite evidence to the contrary, that someone - God, a hero, a messiah - will arrive and resolve our existential questions.
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Confusing, Disappointing
January 16th, 2019
See it if You don't mind reading sub titles and listening to the show in Yiddish.
Don't see it if If you don't like reading sub titles and listening to the play in yiddish.
"New Yiddish Rep is staging a Yiddish translation of 'Godot,' performed with English supertitles by Eli Rosen. Language notwithstanding, this version of Beckett's tale of existential angst is accessible and mysterious, also equally funny and sad as all 'Godot''s should be. Despite the dire situat...
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"Issues are as relevant today as they were when the play was first performed 66 years ago. Nonetheless, this version of 'Godot' is too long, especially for audience members who need to rely on supertitles to understand what’s happening. At a certain point tedium takes over and the play feels inte...
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"Beckett's familiar, plotless depiction of Gogo and Didi's existence as displaced persons in the bleak wasteland of a possibly God-less universe takes on a new life…An aura of Jewish suffering…pervades the performance…Each performance is carefully molded, making moment to moment sense of Beckett'...
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Travelers USA Notebook
“A deeply moving production...Baker’s translation is pitch perfect, underscoring the sadness, off-kilter humor and mute horror of existence...The brutality, despair, even moments of hope, seem best expressed in Yiddish. It is not only an evocative, lilting language, but defined a culture once mar...
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