Abstract

In 2011 I staged Waiting for Godot at the Occupy Wall Street Protest as part of my research into the performance history of this play in real-world crisis settings. The production resonated with earlier productions of the play in prisons, during wars, and after floods and raises the question: how does this classic text metamorphose when staged in non-traditional performance spaces? How does this performance illuminate something new about the play, and something new about the Occupy protest?

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