Waiting for Godot
Cambridge
Aim
Rehearsals are in full swing for staging Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett. Help us funding this production so we can open in March 2017!
Why Waiting for Godot?
Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett is one of the existentialist plays that better displays the Theatre of Absurd. Estragon himself in Act I says: “Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it’s awful!” The dialogues are based on details, everyday life and repetition, Vladimir and Estragon are waiting for Godot who they hardly know, but admitting they would recognise him if they saw him, and to occupy themselves they eat, sleep, argue, sing, play, exercise, contemplate suicide and talk.
Nowadays the world is more connected than ever and people, information and resources can cross boundaries like never before. People have the potential to go anywhere, to learn anything and to achieve anything that is in reach in this world where, with the right resources, anything can be done. This makes us too focused in ourselves, in our own achievements and micro goals and we are sometimes forgetting the world we live in and, more importantly, the society and our self being as Humans. This play is precisely about us being Humans, about society and life so our intention is that perhaps the audience can connect it to the idea of this crazy world we live in and ask themselves the question: "are we still Waiting for Godot"? Are we still looking for answers to the great philosophical quiestions about life and death and the uncertain purpose of what goes on in between? Without knowing who or what Godot really is (Beckett himself said "If I knew, I would have said so in the play."), Waiting for Godot deals with questions about death, religion and the meaning of human existence. This is what makes putting this play on stage today such an interesting challenge: modern society and the 21st century’s culture movements are still trying to address these same questions.
Who are we?
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We are One Tree Theatre Productions, a new theatre company based in Cambridge, UK. The company is new, but we are not... in fact we have been working together for some time (some of us for years!) being involved in several productions in Cambridge as actors, directors, set builders, etc. We are self funded company, comprising cast and crew with track records in quality productions, and international collaborative links to three different companies: 3er Drama (Uruguay), Historyonics Theatre (UK) and Sk8 Board Theatre (UK). We have joint our efforts and previous experience and Waiting for Godot is our first production of, surely, many to come. Our main interest is to interact with our local community offering interesting theatre projects and to create a platform where new artists in the local drama scene can develop their talents.
We are putting on stage this amateur production of Waiting for Godot presented by sepcial agreement with SAMUEL FRENCH, LTD.
Waiting for Godot Cast and Crew
Rosina Piovani - Director / General Production / Set & Costumes Design
This is the first full direction for Rosina. Having worked as assistant director before, this is the first time she is taking a project as the director - and what a project! Waiting for Godot has always been in Rosina's "theatre mind", it is a play that she has always dreamt of putting on stage and now this amazing group of actors and technicians have trusted her to do it! It is truly amazing. Born in Montevideo, Uruguay and having worked there in theatre projects there for over 7 years (as actress, producer, assistant director) she then moved to Cambridge, UK to continue working in theatre - of course! Since she arrived in Cambridge, back in 2012, she has been involved in several theatre productions with Combined Actors of Cambridge and also independent productions and now is absolutely honoured to be directing Waiting for Godot.
If you want to read more about our director, check out her blog here: http://rosinapiovani.blogspot.co.uk/
Michael Flintoff - Vladimir
Michael has been involved in many productions in Cambridge but none as challenging and profund as Waiting For Godot. He is really enjoying rehearsals, something that is not usually the case.
Chris Hindley - Estragon / Set & Costumes
Chris Hudson - Lucky / Assistant Director / Communications
Chris is the founder of Historyonics Theatre Company and has written and directed their first two productions, The History of Britain (2000 Years in 2 Hours!) and A Muse’s Will. He also directed their productions of As You Like It and The Two Gentlemen of Verona, and has directed productions of The Glass Menagerie, The Taming of the Shrew, What the Butler Saw and Playhouse Creatures for other companies. As an actor, Chris has played title roles in Romeo and Juliet, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Nicholas Nickleby and Hamlet, and plays the lead role in the upcoming film Hanging in There.
Richard Sockett - Pozzo (in the photo with William Males)
William Males - A Boy
Chris Cummins & James Brady - Music / Video
Dave Stubbins - Stage manager / Lighting
Rosina Piovani, Chris Hudson & Chris Hindley - Production Team
Why we need your help?
Production meetings started back in June-July 2016 and we were ready to start rehearsing in October which we have been doing ever since. We have agreed to perform in the 200 year old Cambridge Festival Theatre which is a listed building and forms part of the Cambridge Buddhist Centre. It is a real priviledge to be able to perform here, as the theatre is not often open for theatrical productions. Click here to read about the Festival Theatre. Rehearsals are taking place at the Ross Street Community Centre which is also giving us the possibility to connect with our community and to plan further activites with this and future projects.
To put this play on stage we need approximately £2,500 which includes the licence fees, set, props and costumes costs, communication costs and venue and rehearsal space rental. We are a self-funded independent thetre company and we rely on this kind of support s to be able to bring quality theatre to our community. In this case, your donation will mainly go towards paying the rehearsal space which is an essential part of the production of this play at this stage. Any extra money will be put towards the production costs (mainly props, costumes, set).
Rewards
We take this very seriously and we would be extremely grateful of your collaboration. That is why we have given it a lot of thought to give you what we think are great rewards for your contribution. Please check rewards section on the right hand side of this page to see what they are!
This project successfully funded on 21st January 2017