September 26, 2007

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

MCCC’s QUAGMEYER PRODUCTIONS
TO PRESENT WAITING FOR GODOT

MONROE, Mich. – MCCC’s QuagMeyer Productions will present Waiting for Godot, a “tragicomedy” by Samuel Beckett, at Monroe County Community College’s La-Z-Boy Center, Meyer Theater from October 5-7.

The Friday, Oct. 5 and Saturday, Oct. 6 shows will begin at 7:30 p.m.  The Sunday, Oct. 7 show will start at 2 p.m.  The La-Z-Boy Center is located on MCCC’s Main Campus at 1555 S. Raisinville Rd.

In its utter simplicity, Waiting for Godot is in the classic tradition of French playwriting.  However, the play has its own beauty and suggestiveness and makes its own comment on man’s absurd hope and the insignificance of man. 

The story line revolves around two seemingly homeless men waiting for someone — or something — named Godot near a tree on a barren stretch of road  The men proceed to inhabit a drama spun from their own consciousness.  The purely comic aspect of the play involves traditional routines that come from the entire history of farce, from the Romans and the Italians and the red-nosed clown of the modern circus.
 
According to the Massachusetts Review, Waiting for Godot was recently voted the most significant English language play of the 20th century in a British Royal National Theatre poll of 800 playwrights, actors, directors and journalists.

Reserved seating for the show is $10.  The performance is intended for mature audiences.
Tickets may be purchased:

• On-line at www.monroeccc.edu/events;
• Via phone by calling the MCCC Ticket Hotline at (734) 384-4272; or
• In person at the MCCC Cashier’s Office, located in the Warrick Student Services/Administration Building on the Main Campus.