"Waiting for I Dunno"

The Signal Through The Noise/ Tolerance Party #4B put forth by The Cell Theater virtual recent project "Waiting for I Dunno" is mish mosh of Absurdism that goes nowhere important. Based off the play :"Waiting for Godot", Joseph Handel and Kira Simring write an incoherent play.

The play starts off slow and both actors seem awkward together. The familiar breakout room with instructor Brian Reager telling the actors what needs to be done in a short period of time. while the breakout room has worked for some play, it is senseless here.

The play has not plot to speak of- the play tries to be edgy but instead succumbs to "Row Row Row Your Boat". The actors ask ad nauseum "did he come yet? I dunno". It boggles ones mind as to what is trying to be accomplished here. Adding to the perplexes is actor Peyton Row leaving to zoom to change outfits for different occasions. The first, she has rehearsal and it was cancelled... "everyone got vaccinated". Yeah and? The second or third time she comes back (who really cares) she tries to dress sexy and goes into some mantra.

If this play wasn't confusing enough, we have Richard Viquiza doing Robert DE Niro in "Taxi" and Joe Pesci in "Goodfellas". If all fails, the actors resort to calling each others assholes. If that hasn't lost the audience, they then argue over who the actor is. This all adds up to rhetoric but no meaningful rhetoric. If you put this together with bad acting you get a wasted thirty five minutes of your time. To try to make the show more meaningful, twenty eight minutes into the show it tries to get philosophical (kind of like whip cream on horse shit).

I am sure that Vladimir and Estragon are rolling over; I know Beckett is.

Samuel Beckett was a minimalist writer; Beckett wrote novels, short stories poetry and was a theater director. "waiting for Godot" was by far his most popular work. Beckett also wrote "Endgame', "Happy Days", "Play", "Not I", "Quad" and more. In 1945, Beckett would receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Beckett was born in Dublin, Ireland, however, he lived in Paris for most of his adult life and was highly celebrated their.

The Cell Theater has been putting on virtual theater throughout the pandemic. Live theater at the Cell is now taking place at the back patio. Limited seating and masks must be worn while the show is being performed. Currently, "Tennessee Rising' is playing- a one man play about a young Tennessee Williams. Jacob Storms is both the writer and actor in this very informative play (see my review in both Metropolitan Magazine and My Life Publications).

Many off and off off Broadway houses are slowly beginning to open. It will be, however, September when Broadway begins to reopen.

Both Frances McDormand and Sir Anthony Hopkins win their third Oscars each. McDormand for "Nomadland" and Hopkins for "The Father'. Both actors were well deserved for winning ; both films were equally as good as the two Oscar winners. "Nomadland would go on to win best picture.

The much hyped "Mank" would win Best Cinematography. "Mank ' was up for best picture and the great Gary Oldman was up for best actor. Oldman won his first and only Oscar in the role of Winston Churchill .