The life of the vagabonds Vladimir and Estragon seems as desolate as the dry tree on the stage, as does the mission that unites them: their seemingly senseless waiting, which one keeps forgetting so that the other has to remind him of it. It is interrupted by a messenger boy who keeps reassuring her that Godot will not come today but will certainly come tomorrow. And by a sinister team: Pozzo and his servant Lucky.
In the entertaining production by Martin Tröbinger, compressed to 75 intensive minutes, Johannes Minichmair (Estragon) and Johannes Renoldner (Wladimir) spread a diffuse uneasiness over the audience as the eternally waiting. It becomes oppressive when both watch passively the humiliating game of power and submission: Tom Pohl plays the tyrant Pozzo with frightening naturalness, to which Andreas Huemer as Lucky submits in real apathy. Karl-Heinz Deil leads as a “boy” a wooden puppet that underlines the surreal, like the final “Eclipse” by Pink Floyd. Strong applause. (cash)
Source: Nachrichten
