Waiting for Godot Premieres in Taiwan

Source: Waiting for Godot and Postwar Taiwanese Avant-Garde Art: On Theatre Magazine and Huang Hua-cheng’s Installation Art
From: Art Perspective ACT
Date: January 28, 2012Author: Wu Meng-chin / Trans. Lin Hui-chun

On September 3 and 4, 1965, an unusual atmosphere hung over the Kuang Chi Program Service in Taipei’s Roosevelt Road Section 3. Inside this school affiliated with the French Catholic Church, Samuel Beckett’s play Waiting for Godot (En attendant Godot) was translated into Chinese and performed in Taiwan for the first time. According to reports, only one audience member stayed until the very end.

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External Links

• Waiting for Godot (Wikipedia)
• Strike the Gong, Await Godot — Liu Ta-jen (New Vitality)
• We Must Believe in a Certain Kind of Person — That Person Is Called a Clown: Chin Shih-chieh on Waiting for Godot (BIOS Monthly)
• From My Brother Kang-hsiung to Waiting for Godot (によによ Wants to Write a Book Blog)