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Posted By admin on March 10, 2020

...Wait til I come back to your side, well forget the tears we cried.

Well, you just have to wait a few more weeks for the Milledgeville Players production of Samuel Becketts classic play Waiting for Godot.

OK, Ill cool it with the wait references for a bit.

Director Clay Garland is working with his cast, which includes his father, MVP veteran Ken Garland.

Ken plays Vladamir, one of the central characters of the play. His companion, Estragon, is played by another longtime member of the Milledgeville Players, Taylor Phillips.

These two central characters, wait for the arrival of someone named Godot who never arrives, and while waiting they engage in a variety of discussions and encounter three other individuals.

The play is considered a modern theatre classic and has been interpreted in many ways over the years.

Vladamir and Estragon seem to share a common bond but are also very different and reveal that by various characteristics during the play.

Vladimir stands through most of the play whereas Estragon sits down numerous times and even dozes off. Estragon has been described as being inert and Vladimir restless. Vladimir looks at the sky and muses on religious or philosophical matters while Estragon "belongs to the stone, preoccupied with mundane things, what he can get to eat and how to ease his physical aches and pains.

There are also other characters that come and go during the course of the play, including Lucky, a silent, baggage-burdened slave with a rope tied around his neck, and Pozzo, his arrogant master.

Then there is the boy who keeps returning each evening to tell Vladamir and Estragon that Godot will not be arriving that day but surely tomorrow.

The play certainly has its esoteric aspects but it is also a comedy, though often described as bittersweet.

Your chance to see the MVP production of this classic theatrical work will be Friday, March 27 - Sunday, March 29. The Friday and Saturday shows kick off at 7:30 p.m. while the Sunday matinee will find our stalwart gentlemen of leisure starting their wait for the elusive Godot at 2 p.m.

Location will be the new home of the Players, the Pecan Grove Events Center, formerly known as the Chapel of All Faiths, located at 252 Swint Avenue.

Tickets are $10 each. You can purchase them in advance by going to http://www.milledgevilleplayers.org.

But thats not all the Players are up to. We are also in preparation for a production of Shakespeares classic The Tempest.

The production is still a bit in the future: May 14-May 17 to be exact.

But before we can have the play, we first need to gather together a cast.

Auditions for The Tempest will take place March 23-26, also at the Pecan Grove Events Center, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Men and women of a variety of ages are needed and invited to try out.

In addition to actors, jugglers, tumblers, and anyone with a Renaissance skill, are most welcome to come by to possibly take part in a pre-show festival!

So, come out and audition for The Tempest and then come back a couple of days later to see Waiting for Godot. Your community theatre group will be most appreciative.

Speaking of theatre, before the Players production of Wait for Godot hits the stage, the Georgia College Theatre Department has a production taking place this very week.

Shooting Star, written by Steven Dietz and directed by Kenzie Bradley, tells the story of two college ex-lovers who accidentally meet in the Detroit Airport. The pair become trapped overnight with both their flights delayed during a massive snowstorm. It is a bittersweet romantic comedy about the middle days of our lives and how we got there.

The performances are March 10-12 at 7:30 p.m. in the Campus Black Box Theatre. Tickets are $6 for general admission, $5 for non-GC students/seniors/GC faculty/staff and $3 for GC students.

And the GC Music Department will present a guest artist recital on Thursday, March 12, in Max Noah Recital Hall.

Duo Mosaic will perform music from many different corners of the world at starting at 7:30 p.m. Violinist Henrik Karapetyan and cellist Martin Tosch-Ishii will play American Folk, Irish, tango, gypsy, rock and Klezmer the musical tradition of Ashkenazi Jews from Eastern Europe.

Duo Mosaic released its first full-length recording, Midnight Dances, in 2015.

There is no admission charge but donations are encouraged to help provide music scholarships.

So, come out for some theatre and music, courtesy of Georgia College this week, and order those tickets for Waiting for Godot.

Our opening lyrics are, of course, from the Beatles song Wait, which appeared on the album Rubber Soul.

The song was pretty much a pure Paul McCartney composition and was originally supposed to appear on the Help album in June 1965, but got held back until its inclusion on Rubber Soul, which was released in December of that year.

It is one of the few Beatles songs to be written in a minor key and many critics consider the most interesting aspect of the song to be George Harrisons eerie tone-pedal guitar at the end of the bridges and at the end of the song.

I feel as though you ought to know, that Ive been good as good as I can be. And if you do, Ill trust in you, and know that you will wait for me.

Catch you on the flip side.

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CURTAIN CALL: Check out music and theatre at GC this week - The Union-Recorder

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