Beckett’s Godot”: 60 years and still waiting...”

• Stuart Langer
• STILL WAITING: Jake Krakovsky (left) as Vladimir and Seth Langer (right) as Estragon in Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot.” The production at Fabrefaction Theatre this weekend celebrates the 60th anniversary of the play.

It was in 1953 at the Théâtre de Babylone in Paris where not much first happened. This year marks the 60th anniversary of the first theatrical production of Samuel Beckett’s play Waiting for Godot, the absurdist classic now famous for (spolier alert?) the non-arrival of its title character.

Though the show was created on the thinnest of shoestrings (a suitcase carried by the character Lucky was literally pulled from the trash) and early reviews were mixed (at one performance, the curtain had to brought down due to the din of derisive hoots and whistles from the audience), the play has since gone on to be understood as one of the greatest and most significant works of art of the 20th century.

Atlanta productions of Beckett’s plays are somewhat rare, so we were excited and curious to hear that a new company we’d never heard of will be performing Godot this weekend at Fabrefaction Theatre in West Midtown to mark the occasion of the play’s 60th year. We caught up with the artists of “Fulham and Clapham Present” to ask a few questions about what they have planned.