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Not Waiting for Godot (Poughkeepsie, 2015)
// Godot’yu Beklemezken (İstanbul, 2017-2018)
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Not Waiting for Godot (Godot’yu Beklemezken) is a cyclical journey into subjectivity and lived experiences.

I came up with the concept first in 2014 while watching a performance of Waiting for Godot in Montreal. I wrote and directed a four act response to Beckett and it was produced by the Philaletheis Society and the show premiered at Vassar College in April 2015. 

With the assumption that Beckett’s four characters are fragments of one connected whole, the immersive experience pushes the audience members to question their own Godots, and centers this quest for a nonexistent meaning within the Beckett’s tree. The audience members are expected to peel the layers of the anchoring tree as the performers peel through each other’s experiences.

After the deconstruction of the tree layer by layer, the audience and the cast all together build a new one from the remains of the old one. 

Just like this, the game of deconstruction and reconstruction of the tree repeats itself, as every single performance and every rehearsal is another repetition of this experience of not waiting.

https://vimeo.com/pirilti/notwaiting

Godot’yu Beklemezken, 2017-2018: I decided to make a new version of this piece in Istanbul in 2017. Produced by Ezop Sahne in Beşiktaş, the show ran for a season during 2017-2018.

https://vimeo.com/pirilti/beklemezken

For more about the workshop process, please see:

Inside Godot
@godotyubeklemezken