Waiting for Godot

Artists from four* of Portland's theater companies are coming together to mount a fully staged production of Samuel Beckett's seminal Waiting for Godot as a fundraiser for The Canon Shakespeare Company. Seats are first come, first served.

A 'tragicomedy' and an icon of the absurdist theater movement, Waiting for Godot has famously been described as “the play about nothing.” Published in 1954, it remains one of Beckett's best-known works. Two main characters, Vladimir and Estragon, spend their days waiting for Godot, whose long-promised but unfulfilled arrival will bring them the answer to all their troubles. The pair pass the time waiting with philosophical and religious musings, and encounters with a handful of other characters. Waiting for Godot is considered one of the foundational works of modern theater.

*The Cannon Shakespear Company

Third Eye Theatre

Twilight Theatre

Scarlet Sails Cultural Foundation