BY ALEJANDRO
Anything can gain meaning in a place where things are not clearly defined and superficiality, slave to perception, reigns. When superficiality is not only upfront but is the core of everything…
Thus, a projection of someone becomes the dominant force. ‘God-ot’, through a perspective from inside the play , seems to be pulling the strings. This is different from reality in the sense that, normally, people would not be dependent of another person. Specially, this does not happen in a circumstance where the person awaited is a total stranger.
The clockwork of this play makes the audience ask itself what has Godot promised. Since this character is absent the entire time, but his omnipresence manifests through every action, or the lack of them there of, it acquires a God-like importance.
Deliberately, Becket’s minimalistic construct allows the different concepts -like time, space, setting, characters, the moon, twilight- to gain evocative and interpretative dimension; a tangible one as denoted by the reach of this piece.
Universality bursts out through imagery with the potential to extend as far as the audience capabilities to contrast, or relate to the concept, permit it.