Godot Is a Woman

<p class=ql-align-justify>In 1953 a man wrote a play about waiting.</p><p class=ql-align-justify>In 1988 he sued five women for trying to perform it.</p><p class=ql-align-justify>It's 2022 and we're still waiting.</p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>Since Samuel Beckett's ground-breaking <em>Waiting for Godot</em> first hit the stage in 1953 countless men across the world have donned the boots of Didi and Gogo and trodden the boards - but those boots can only be filled by men and the bar against casting anyone else is upheld to this day almost seventy years on.</p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>Hot on the heels of Ariana Grande's insistence that 'God is a Woman' Silent Faces Theatre have decided they're done waiting. Penned with their trademark playful political style <em>Godot is a Woman</em> is a tour de force that explores permission the patriarchy and pop music.</p><p><br></p>