Waiting for Godot in New Orleans

Project Added: December 7, 2020
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Outside an older looking white house, a person in a suit sits on the stairs to the front door. Another person leans out a second floor window looking for something.

Waiting for Godot

Lee Celano, New York Times

Arts-and Intersections:

Public Welfare

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Location:

New Orleans, Louisiana

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Genre/Discipline:

Theater & performance

Population Density:

Urban

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Project Website:

https://creativetime.org/programs/archive/2007/chan/welcome.html

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An outdoor performance of Samuel Beckett's play, Waiting for Godot, was Paul Chan's response to the symmetry between the reality of New Orleans post-Katrina which expresses the cruel and funny things people do while they wait for help, for food, for tomorrow.

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