Picard + McKellen vs. Beckett

[David Morris]

New Orleans is the setting for the 20th century’s most emblematic
story of waiting. According to artist Paul Chan, “The longing for the
new is a reminder of what is worth renewing. Seeing Godot embedded in
the very fabric of the landscape of New Orleans was my way of
re-imagining the empty roads, the debris, and, above all, the bleak
silence as more than the expression of mere collapse. There is a
terrible symmetry between the reality of New Orleans post-Katrina and
the essence of this play, which expresses in stark eloquence the cruel
and funny things people do while they wait: for help, for food, for
tomorrow.”


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

I attended this free event.  A fine gift to New Orleans.