Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter at Samuel Beckett
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Let's go back to the past – to 1989 – when the moviegoers first met a delightful but adorable time traveler in “Bill & Ted's Great Adventure.”
The film puts actors Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter on a map and starts a friendship.
About three and a half years ago, Reeves had an idea. “I was in the hotel room,” he told Morning version Host Michelle Martin. “I was thinking that Alex and I could work again. Then, it shocked me: Wait for Godot. ”
Whether crazy or glamorous, their stadium finds a passionate companion in director Jamie Lloyd. On September 13, Reeves and Winter began previewing the performance at the Hudson Theatre in New York.
If you are not a drama kid in school, “Waiting for Godot” is a surreal drama over 70 years old by Samuel Beckett, telling the mystery of faith, patience and existence – just as two friends (played by Winter) and Winter and Estragon and Estragon (played by Reeves) awaiting Reeves, they may never show up.
There is some Broadway experience in winter, but for Reeves, it is his first appearance on the road to the White. Reeves admitted that before he had a little forced courage as he yelled, he felt “terror, anxious, hopeful”, “expected… say… don't know what he was talking about!”
Winter said the two actors approached “Godor” in their 60s, which are very different from those of young people.
“With a lot of highs, lows and losses, the drama is more personal to me,” he said. “That’s how the drama gets rid of pain in some way. ‘Waiting for Godot’ whole joke is a constant distraction, distraction, distracting, and direct live attention.”
Waiting for Gordo The plan is to continue until January 4, 2026.
The audio version of this story was produced by Mansee Khurana.