Preview: Godot is a Woman, Pleasance Theatre
In 1953 a man wrote a play about waitingIn 1988 he sued five women for trying to perform itIn 2001 Madonna released ‘What It Feels Like for a Girl’ It’s 2020 and we’re still waiting.
Playing between 8 – 12 June 2021
After two postponements in 2020, Godot is a Woman is finally set to hit the stage. Third time lucky.
Silent Faces make ensemble-led devised theatre and are proud to be an integrated company of disabled and non-disabled artists. Godot is a Woman follows the critically acclaimed A Clown Show About Rain (“Delightful” Scotsman) and Follow Suit (“Marvellously comic and compelling” The Stage).“We’re excited to see Silent Faces take a swing at the patriarchy with Godot is a Woman. The Beckett Estate’s refusal to allow women to do Waiting for Godot (and who even knows where they stand on gender non-conforming people) seems a relic of a bygone time and deserves interrogation. In their inimitable style, I have no doubt that Silent Faces’ new show will not only rage but question, challenge and hopefully inspire us all!” Nic Connaughton, Head of Theatre at Pleasance Theatre
With their trademark style of playful and political physical theatre, Silent Faces explore permission, patriarchy and pop music in Godot is a Woman.
We all know what it’s like to wait, don’t we? Waiting for our banana bread to come out the oven, waiting for Boris Johnson’s 5 o’clock announcement, waiting for permission from male playwrights to perform plays about the human condition. Since Waiting for Godot was written, non-men all over the world have been waiting to fill the boots of Vladimir and Estragon. Nearly 70 years later, the playwright is dead and his estate still says no to the casting of women.
Today Ariana Grande tells us that ‘God is a Woman’… so we’ve decided we’re done waiting. Samuel Beckett? As Grande would say: thank u, next.
The show plays between 8 and 12 June, with a matinee performance as well on the Saturday. More
