Was Steve Martin and Robin William's stage performance of Waiting for Godot ever released on film?

Was Steve Martin and Robin William's stage performance of Waiting for Godot ever released on film? - Man Standing on Stage Holding Microphone

After watching the HBO bio-documentary on Robin Williams titled "Come Inside My Mind", one of the things I was very interested in was that Steven Martin and Robin Williams acted together in Samuel Beckett's classic play "Waiting for Godot". There is some footage of this play shown in the documentary and I found a listing for a DVD in the New York Public Library System. But is this the only copy available?



Best Answer

No, this was never released on film. The The New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive records most theater productions for archival purposes, but only makes them available to qualified researchers. Typically, if you are deemed qualified you will receive a copy of the production with a very large watermark running across the video. You would then submit the timestamps of the sections you wish to use, restricted to some varying short amount of time, and then you would be provided with only those segments on a disc without the watermark. Many major filmhouses do this as well.

There's a very famous one whose name escapes me at the moment which deals with live concert footage, they were the first ones known to have the Rush show from Capital Theater in 1976 (which has since been officially released by Rush) as well as a Boston concert from 1979, among a large selection of others.




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Does Godot ever show up?

Waiting for Godot (/\u02c8\u0261\u0252do\u028a/ GOD-oh) is a play by Samuel Beckett in which two characters, Vladimir (Didi) and Estragon (Gogo), engage in a variety of discussions and encounters while awaiting the titular Godot, who never arrives.

What is the meaning of Waiting for Godot?

The play is a typical example of the Theatre of the Absurd, and people use the phrase 'waiting for Godot' to describe a situation where they are waiting for something to happen, but it probably never will.

What does Godot symbolize in Waiting for Godot?

The most important example is Godot, whose name evokes similarity to God for many readers. Along this reading, Godot symbolizes the salvation that religion promises, but which never comes (just as Godot never actually comes to Vladimir and Estragon).

Why did Beckett write Waiting for Godot?

Speaking about the play, Beckett told one interviewer, \u201cI began to write Godot as a relaxation to get away from the awful prose I was writing at the time\u201d (Cohn Duckworth, \u201cThe Making of Godot,\u201d in Caseliookon Waiting for Godot, Ed.



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