WAITING FOR GODOT
A raw, contemporary Godot, where a new generation waits, jokes, spirals, and searches for meaning in a world that keeps promising something—and never quite delivers.
Event Times
May 5, 2027 - 8:00 pm
Centaur Theatre and Théâtre Denise-Pelletier present
WAITING FOR GODOT
By Samuel Beckett
Directed by Eda Holmes
Co-Directed by Rebecca Gibian
With Andreas Apergis, Wood Barthelmy, Frédéric Charbonneau and Lennikim
Set Design by Carol-Anne Bourgon Sicard
Costume Design by Cynthia St-Gelais
Lighting Design by Paul Chambers
Sound Design by Alexander MacSween
Stage Manager Melanie St-Jacques
More than thirty years after its last production at Centaur Theatre, Samuel Beckett’s defining masterpiece of modern theatre finally returns to our stage with a new Vladimir and Estragon (a.k.a. Didi and Gogo), the iconic down-and-outs given fresh life in this bold new production.
As they have done nearly every night somewhere on the globe since the play’s premiere in 1953, Didi and Gogo arrive on stage to pass the time while waiting for their dubious appointment with a saviour named Godot who may never arrive. Days blur into one another as they argue, joke, contemplate departure, and remain exactly where they are. In Beckett’s iconic landscape of doubt and indecision, humour and despair exist side by side, and the act of “showing up” becomes its own fragile form of life.
This new Centaur staging, co-produced with Théâtre Denise-Pelletier, is directed by Artistic Director Eda Holmes in collaboration with Associate Artist Rebecca Gibian, who together bring a fresh intergenerational lens to the work’s timeless questions of stagnation, hope, and endurance. In a deliberate departure from casting traditions, Didi and Gogo are played by two of Montreal’s most compelling young performers, Wood Barthelmy and Frédéric Charbonneau, reframing Beckett’s existential limbo through the perspective of younger generations who are in the midst of navigating a world of uncertainty, precarity, and stalled futures.
Opposite them, longtime Centaur favourite Andreas Apergis appears alongside the pop singer and actor Lennikim as Pozzo and Lucky respectively, adding an unexpected flavour and contemporary edge to Beckett’s depiction of shifting power structures.
Beautifully minimalist, comic, devastating, and endlessly resonant, Waiting for Godot remains the modern theatre’s indispensable portrait of rootlessness, endurance, and the stubborn act of staying put when there is nowhere else to go.
*Why You Need to See It*
A bold reimagining of Beckett’s classic that reframes waiting, hope, and despair through a new generation—urgent, unexpected, and unmissable.