[NEohioPAL] Review of "Waiting for Godot" at the Beck Center for the Arts

[Bob Abelman]

Waiting for Yan Gomes and other things existential at the Beck



Bob Abelman

Cleveland Jewish News, The News Herald, The Morning Journal

Member, International Association of Theatre Critics



Unless you’re sitting in the audience for the musical “Damn Yankees” or the biographical drama “Lombardi,” sports fans and theatregoers aren’t usually the same people. 



All the world may be a stage to Shakespeare enthusiasts, but for those at the ballpark the world is an uneven playing field where winners never quit, quitters never win, and there’s always next year.



There is no greater mixed metaphor than comparing a show to The Show, particularly when one is by Samuel Beckett and the other is baseball.



But last Friday night, worlds apart but just 10 miles away, the Indians met the Yankees at Progressive Field for game 2 of the ALDS while Vladimir and Estragon were waiting for Godot at the Beck Center for the Arts.  And there were lessons to be learned.



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