Viewpoint stages classic 'Waiting for Godot'

HE'S NOT COMING- The cast of the Conservatory of Theater at Viewpoint School's production of "Waiting For Godot." A segment of the play was performed in its original French.

The Conservatory of Theater at Viewpoint School in Calabasas recently presented Samuel Beckett's play "Waiting for Godot" in the school's Ahmanson Black Box Theater.

The play featured seniors Julian Arian of Calabasas and Alexa Love of Agoura, junior Juliet Beletic of Thousand Oaks, and third-grader Jake Jepson of Woodland Hills.

Written at the end of 1948 in French, the play follows two days in the lives of a pair of men who attempt to divert themselves while they wait expectantly for someone called Godot. To fill the silence they eat, sleep, talk, argue, make up, sing, play games, swap hats, and contemplate suicideThe author, Samuel Beckett, won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1969.

The students presented a segment of act two in French with English subtitles so that both the actors and the audience could experience the beauty of the words in the vernacular.