Original upload date: Tue, 16 Aug 2016 00:00:00 GMT
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This is part of a documentary made at the set up of a theater production, played by prisoners, at San Quentin State Prison in California. The play was open to the public and premiered 1988.
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Director John Reilly
Produced by John Reilly and Global Village for the Beckett Project
Vladimir: Donald James
Estragon: Reginald Wilson
Pozzo: Spoon Jackson
Director: Jan Jönsson (Sweden)
""Godot in San Quentin" (1987) documents the production of "Waiting for Godot" by a cast of inmates from San Quentin Prison. Producer and director John Reilly and a crew spent four weeks at the maximum-security facility; rehearsal and performance sequences are intercut with footage of daily prison life and discussions with the principal characters.
Reilly has said that the inmates "do not `act' because they are not trained actors, but they feel the parts because they have lived the lives of Beckett's characters."
The Chicago Tribune http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1994-06-19/entertainment/9406190331_1_godot-samuel-beckett-marx-brothers
Read the story about the theater production from the point of view of one of the actors Spoon Jackson in: "By Heart, Poetry, Prison, and Two Lives" by Judith Tannenbaum and Spoon Jackson
Get it here: http://www.newvillagepress.net/book/?GCOI=97660100959910
