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Godot in San Quentin
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Godot in San Quentin

Oct 9, 1988
0h 58m
★ 0.0

Overview

A documentary made at the set up of a theater production, of Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot", directed by Jan Jönson, played by prisoners, at San Quentin State Prison in California.The play is about two men who meet on a lonely country road, waiting for someone called Godot to confirm their lives and make life easier for them to live. Towards the end Godot announces that he will not come tonight, but maybe tomorrow. Producer and director John Reilly and a crew spent four weeks at the maximum-security facility; rehearsal and performance sequences are inter-cut with footage of daily prison life and discussions with the principal characters.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Global Village

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Cast

Spoon Jackson

Pozzo

Spoon Jackson

Jan Jönson

Stage director

Jan Jönson

Happy

Estragon

Happy

Twin

Vladimir

Twin

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