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- Herausgeber: Renard Press
- Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
- Sprache: Englisch
In 1953 a man wrote a play about waiting. In 1988 he sued five women for trying to perform it. It's 2022 and we're still waiting. Since Samuel Beckett's ground-breaking Waiting for Godot first hit the stage in 1953, countless men across the world have donned the boots of Didi and Gogo and trodden the boards – but those boots can only be filled by men, and the bar against casting anyone else is upheld to this day, almost seventy years on. Hot on the heels of Ariana Grande's insistence that 'God is a Woman', Silent Faces Theatre have decided they're done waiting. Penned with their trademark playful, political style, Godot is a Woman is a tour de force that explores permission, the patriarchy and pop music.
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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022
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Godot is a Woman first published in 2022
Text © Silent Faces Theatre Ltd, 2022
Cover by Will Dady, based on a design by Josie Underwood
Cover portraits © Ali Wright, 2022
Silent Faces Theatre assert their right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
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Contents
Godot Is a Woman
Acknowledgements
About Silent Faces
godot is a woman
To the women, non-binary and trans people throughout history who fought for our right to exist unapologetically and for our voices to be heard. And to the queen of pop herself, Madonna.
Notes on casting and performance
In performance, the performers’ names (Josie, Jack and Cordelia) should be substituted with the names of the performers playing those roles. For casting, we suggest Cordelia and Josie be played by female performers and Jack be played by a trans masc non-binary performer.
godot is a woman
A tree-like structure stands to one side of the stage and a roadside telephone box to the other. Hold music plays from the telephone and breaks intermittently with recorded messages.
phone voiceover: Thank you for calling the Beckett Estate. Your call is important to us. Please continue to wait and an operator will be with you shortly.
(There are three people in the space: josie, jack and cordelia. jack has no trousers on. In fact, all three of them are half-dressed. They crowd around the roadside telephone. During the following action they finish getting dressed: raggedy suits, boots and bowler hats like those worn by the characters in Waiting for Godot. They wait until the hold music cuts out.)
phone voiceover: Thank you for calling; your call is number – eight – in the call queue. Please continue to wait and an operator will be with you shortly.
(The hold music continues and they wait until the music cuts out.)
phone voiceover: Your call is number – seven – in the call queue.
(The hold music continues. They wait. cordelia begins to subtly dance to the music, bending at the knees. The other two join in and the three of them gradually dance across the stage and back again in rhythm with the music. The hold music cuts out.)
phone voiceover: Thank you for calling; your call is important to us.
(The hold music continues and they wait until the music cuts out.)
phone voiceover: Your call is number – four – in the call queue.
(The hold music continues. The monotony of the hold music putsjack into a trance-like state. The other two join them, looking into the middle-distance. They are all briefly entranced until the music cuts out.)
phone voiceover: Your call is number – four – in the call queue.
(The hold music continues. josie finds the speakerphone button. The hold music blares from the speaker. josie hangs up the phone and the music continues. They are impressed. They all walk away from the phone, seeing how far they can go. The music cuts out and they all run back to the phone.)
phone voiceover: For more information on obtaining performance rights to Beckett’s works please see our website at www.beckettfoundation.org.uk/rights.
(The hold music continues and they wait until the music cuts out.)
phone voiceover: Your call is number – three – in the call queue.
(The hold music continues. They are starting to get nervously excited now. The music cuts out.)
phone voiceover: Your call is number – two – in the call queue.
(The hold music continues. They prepare themselves for the phone to finally be answered until…)
phone voiceover: Thank you for calling the Beckett Estate. There is no one available to answer your call at the moment, so please leave a message at the tone and someone will get back to you. (Beep noise.)
(Throughout the following josie gets increasingly faster, rambling and flustered.)
josie: Oh… Um… HI! Hi! Hello, this is Josie calling from Silent Faces… We’re a theatre company… We’ve been in touch a few times about the performance rights for Waiting for Godot, mainly via email, but we’ve tried calling a couple of times, and I’ve also written a letter… or two or… anyway, we’re really pushed for time now, so we were just calling to see if we could maybe talk to someone about moving forward with our application as soon as possible, so if someone could get back to us that would be great. I think you have my number in the emails I have sent you, so yeah, if someone could just get in touch that would be great. OK, thanks, love you, bye. (Puts the phone down.)
(jack and cordelia look at josie in embarrassment.)
jack: What was that?
(Pause. josie squirms.)
cordelia: Call them back!
(josie frantically redials and puts the phone on loudspeaker.)
phone voiceover: You are number – 9,127 – in the call queue.
jack: That’s gonna be a long wait.
(The hold music continues. The phone is left off the hook. A copy of Waiting for Godot flies in. Choral music rises and then cuts out. The hold music continues. They try to grab it, but it keeps flying just out of reach, teasing them. The occasional rumble of thunder makes them stop in their tracks.)
phone voiceover: You are number – 8,952 – in the call queue.
(They drop everything and look to the phone, then back to the book and back to the phone.)
phone voiceover: You are number… put the book down… in the call queue.
(They look at each other, afraid and questioning.)
