Waiting...

I've started working on a theater poster for Samuel Beckett's absurdist tragicomedy Waiting for Godot. Beckett, though Irish by birth, wrote the majority of his work in French. The French version of Godot first premiered in 1953 and the English version in 1955 - Beckett himself translated the play.

The stage in the play is remarkably sparse - there is a tree and a rock - so I want to concentrate on the characters. Reading the play, I got a very strong sense of an apocalyptic or post-apocalyptic world. Hopefully that comes through in the character designs.

Vladimir ("Didi")

Estragon ("Gogo")

Lucky

Pozzo