Waiting for Godot

By SAMUEL BECKETT
Directed By JOE CALARCO

AUGUST 19–SEPTEMBER 4

St. Germain Stage at the Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing Arts Center
36 Linden Street, Pittsfield, MA

Vladimir and Estragon wait on a deserted country road to meet a person named Godot. Killing time with hat tricks and half-remembered stories, they dawdle through one of the greatest dramas of the 20^th century. In Beckett’s absurd, anarchic world, life is vaudeville and tragedy, philosophy and confusion, all seamlessly woven together with the playwright’s masterful blend of poetry and humor.

“One of the true masterpieces of the century!” —The New York Times

Additional sponsorship by “Mike” and David Faust

REVIEWS

“You’re in the hands of experts…a worthwhile ride…refreshed by an outstanding director and cast.”
—Albany Times Union

“Tour de force…brilliant performances”
—Pioneer Valley Radio

“Brilliant…exceptionally performed”
—WAMC

“A pleasurable opportunity of watching two actors exercising their prodigious skills to the utmost, if not beyond.”
—The Berkshire Eagle

“[Director Joe] Calarco is in top form: his vision of Becket’s classic is brilliantly conceived and elegantly executed – one of the most exceptional productions I’ve seen.”
—Off Script with Dan Dwyer

“An extremely intelligent and theatrical experience not to be missed.”
—Berkshire On Stage

“A monumental work and Calarco and company have delivered all the laughs, dread, and joyous pain at being alive that the play requires.”
—Nippertown

“All deliver top shelf level performances and appear to have total command, comfortability and understanding of their characters…impressive and entertaining.”
—Broadway World

“This is a first-rate production with actors who are totally committed to the text and to giving the audience not only something to think about, but also, something to stimulate thought and lively conversation.”
—In the Spotlight

“Soul food for the brain”
—Scene on Stage

“Complex, demanding, and ravishing”
—Berkshire Fine Arts

MEDIA

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CAST & CREATIVE

CAST

	*MARK H. DOLD (Vladimir “DiDi”*) Mark is an Associate Artist who began with BSC in 2004. Highlights include: Freud’s Last Session, Breaking the Code, Shining City, The Glass Menagerie* and Harry Clarke. Mark has worked at regional theatres from coast to coast and has appeared on and off Broadway. Recently was in the original Broadway company of The Inheritance, and just concluded the show’s Boston premier. He has guest-starred on network television, appeared in multiple pilots, web series and independent films. Mark is the recipient of Connecticut Critics Circle and San Diego Critics Awards. In 2018, he was named BroadwayWorld Berkshires—Best Actor for The Glass Menagerie; and in 2020 was also named Performer of Decade for Joe Calarco’s production of Breaking The Code. He is a graduate of Boston University and The Yale School of Drama. He is a member of The Actors Center and a patient-to-patient volunteer at MSKCC. Boundless thanks to Julianne Boyd for eighteen years of art. Thank you to the residents of Berkshire County. Thank you to my family. MarkHDold.com
	*CHRISTOPHER INNVAR (Pozzo)** Barrington Stage Associate Artist since 2003. Thrilled to collaborate with Joe Calarco again. BSC acting- The Game, Cyrano De Bergerac, The Importance of Being Earnest, Ring Round The Moon, Private Lives, Carousel, A Streetcar Named Desire, Absurd Person Singular, The Crucible, Much Ado About Nothing, His Girl Friday, A Doll’s House Pt2. BSC directing- The Whipping Man, Camping With Henry And Tom, The Collyer Brothers/Period Piece, Shining City, The Other Place, 10X10 Festival. I’m honored to be a part of Julie Boyd’s last season as Artistic Director. I am forever grateful for the artistic home and community you’ve invited me in to. Bon voyage Julie and come back soon!
	*KEVIN ISOLA (Estragon “GoGo”)** Broadway: Brooklyn Boy Off-Broadway: Lincoln Center, Signature, Second Stage, Playwrights Horizons, NYSF/Public Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, Transport Group, Theatre Row, 59E59, Cherry Lane, among others. Regional: The Old Globe, The Guthrie, Shakespeare Theatre Company, McCarter, South Coast Rep, Yale Rep, STNJ, among others. Film and Television: “The Equalizer”, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”, “Billions”, “Bull”, “The Blacklist”, “Elementary”, “Deadbeat”, “Law and Order”, Uninvited, Blumenthal, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, among others.
	*MAX WOLKOWITZ (Lucky)** N.Y./Regional: Indecent (Arena Stage); The Chosen (Long Wharf); Assisted Loving (Capital Rep); Doctors Jane and Alexander (UTC61); Love, Sex & Death in the Amazon (Collider Theater); My Name Is Asher Lev (Penguin Rep); Ivanov (Trinity Rep); Indian Summer (Brown/Trinity Playwrights Rep). Brown/Trinity: In The Next Room (Dr. Givings; WISE Foundation Emerging Artist of the Year Award); Twelfth Night (Sir Andrew); Much Ado About Nothing (Borachio). TV: FBI (CBS Television). BA: Bennington. MFA: Brown/Trinity. Member of The Actors Center.
	MAXIMUS HOLEY (A Boy), 12, is excited to be starting the 7th grade at Mt. Greylock Regional High School this fall. Max has taken part in BSC’s KidsAct! Camp, and has also performed in Shrek the Musical JR. at Williamtown Elementary School. In addition to being on stage, Max loves playing baseball and basketball, and is a green belt in Shaolin Kempo Karate. Max is taking Hip-Hop classes with Berkshire Dance Theatre and has been playing the piano for 7 years. He is honored to have the opportunity to be a part of this production.

CREATIVES

SAMUEL BECKETT (Playwright) (1906–1989) is widely recognized as one of the greatest dramatists of the 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969. Mr. Beckett is most renowned for his play Waiting for Godot, which launched his career in theatre. He then went on to write numerous successful full-length plays, including Endgame in 1957, Krapp’s Last Tape in 1958 and Happy Days in 1960. Mr. Beckett received his first commission for radio from the BBC in 1956 for All That Fall. This was followed by a further five plays for radio, including Embers, Words and Music and Cascando. Like no other dramatist before him, Mr. Beckett’s works capture the pathos and ironies of modern life yet still maintain his faith in man’s capacity for compassion and survival, no matter how absurd his environment may have become.

JOE CALARCO† (Director) Associate Artist. BSC: Sister Sorry; Into the Woods; A Doll’s House, Part 2; Ragtime; Kiss Me, Kate; Breaking the Code; Romance in Hard Times; The Burnt Part Boys; The Mysteries of Harris Burdick (book writer); The Memory Show. New York: Playwrights Horizons, Second Stage, Primary Stages, Lincoln Center. Other regional: Signature Theatre, The Old Globe, The Kennedy Center and many more. He has been nominated for two Drama Desk Awards, the Jeff Award, the Evening Standard Award and has won a Lucille Lortel Award, two Barrymore Awards and four Helen Hayes Awards. His published works as a playwright include Walter Cronkite is Dead, In the Absence of Spring, Shakespeare’s R&J and his plays for teens: Winter Break, Spring Break, 17 and 18.

LUCIANA STECCONI (Scenic Designer) Recent designs include: Anna in the Tropics (Bay Street Theatre), Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express and Antonio’s Song (Milwaukee Rep), Witch (Huntington Theatre Company), John Proctor is the Villain (Studio Theatre), Private (Mosaic Theatre Company), A Wind in the Door (The Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences). She has designed for Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Round House Theatre, Signature Theatre, Theater J, Everyman Theatre, Olney Theatre and the Contemporary American Theatre Festival, among others. She is an Assistant Professor in Scenic Design at Emerson College. Luciana holds an MFA in design from Brandeis University and is a member of United Scenic Artists, Local 829, IATSE. Upcoming shows include: Macbeth (Merrimack Repertory Theatre), The Art of Burning (a co-production between Huntington Theatre and Hartford Stage) and Antonio’s Song at the Goodman Theatre.

DEBRA KIM SIVIGNY (Costume Designer) BSC: Sister Sorry. Recent credits include costumes for Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 and Once (Hangar Theatre), and scenery for Sense and Sensibility (Everyman Theatre) and Head Over Heels (Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma). She is the creator of Hello, My Name Is… (The Welders), an immersive installation about Korean adoptees. She received the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Scenic Design for Forgotten Kingdoms at Rorschach Theatre and is a five-time nominee. She is on the faculty at George Mason University.

DAVID LANDER (Lighting Designer) Associate Artist. BSC: A Little Night Music, Sister Sorry, Boca, Who Could Ask for Anything More? The Songs of George Gershwin, Harry Clarke, Fall Springs, Gertrude and Claudius, West Side Story. Broadway: The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical, Torch Song with Michael Urie and Mercedes Rhuel, The Heiress with Jessica Chastain, The Lyons with Linda Lavin, Master Class with Tyne Daly, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo with Robin Williams (Drama Desk Award; Tony and Outer Critics Nominations), 33 Variations with Jane Fonda (Tony and Outer Critics nominations), I Am My Own Wife (Drama Desk and Outer Critics nominations), among others. Off Broadway: The Public Theater, Roundabout Theatre, Signature Theatre, The Vineyard Theatre, among others. Regional: Arena Stage, Goodman Theatre, Guthrie Theater, Hartford Stage, Huntington Theatre, Kennedy Center, Mark Taper Forum, among others. International Theatre and Opera: Dublin, Delhi, London, Melbourne, Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, among others.

NATHAN LEIGH (Sound Designer) BSC: Anna in the Tropics. Nathan has designed and scored over 300 plays including MCC (Space Dogs), New York Theatre Workshop (Nat Turner In Jerusalem), Cherry Lane (Original Sound), Red Bull Theatre (The Duchess of Malfi), Huntington Theatre (Skeleton Crew) and Berkshire Theatre Group (Godspell). With Kyle Jarrow, Nathan co-created the musicals Big Money (WTF Boris Segall Fellowship 2008) and The Consequences (World Premiere 2012 at WHAT). With the Liars and Believers ensemble, Nathan Leigh composed scores for adaptations of Song of Songs, Icarus and A Story Beyond. Nathan’s latest album is Myths, Conspiracy Theories, and Other Stuff I Made Up To Sound Interesting.

ANTHONY O. BULLOCK (Production Stage Manager) BSC: Company, Ragtime. Tour/International: The Wuzhen Theatre Festival in Wuzhen, China (The White Snake). NYC: Classic Stage Company (The School for Lies), Project Springboard: Developing Dance Musicals. REGIONAL: Shakespeare Theatre Company (Red Velvet, Our Town), Baltimore Center Stage (Twisted Melodies, SOUL the Stax Musical), Arena Stage (The Pajama Game), McCarter Theatre Center (The Understudy, The White Snake, A Christmas Carol), Williamstown Theatre Festival (The Last Goodbye), Shakespeare & Co. (None but the Lonely Heart, Kaufman’s Barber Shop). Resident Production Stage Manager for Theater J in Washington DC for the past three seasons. BFA in Stage Management from Oklahoma City University.

MCCORKLE CASTING LTD: PAT MCCORKLE, CSA; Rebecca Weiss (Casting) Casting actors for Barrington Stage for 20 years. Pat McCorkle is pleased to be an Associate Artist at BSC. Broadway: Over 50 productions including On the Town, Amazing Grace, End of the Rainbow, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Amadeus, She Loves Me, A Few Good Men. Off Broadway: highlights — Clever Little Lies; Sheer Madness; Tribes; Our Town (Barrow Street); Freud’s Last Session; Toxic Avenger; Almost, Maine; Driving Miss Daisy. Feature film: Premium Rush, Ghost Town, The Thomas Crown Affair, Die Hard with a Vengeance, School Ties, etc. Television: Twisted, St. George, Sesame Street, Hack, Californication, Max Bickford, Chappelle’s Show, Strangers with Candy, Barbershop, etc. mccorklecasting.com

CHARLIE SIEDENBURG (Berkshires Press Representative) (Associate Artist, 18^th Season) joined the BSC family in 2005 and has represented over 150 BSC productions. His work has led to features in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, Associated Press and American Theatre Magazine. His many PR credits include the Metropolitan Opera (Live in HD), Paper Mill Playhouse, George Street Playhouse, Hartford Stage, Goodspeed Musicals, Long Wharf Theatre, Surflight Theatre and Two River Theater Company. He serves as Press Rep for Wagner College Theatre, The Minty Awards, Ghostlight Productions and Forestburgh Playhouse. Charlie is a 1995 Theatre/Arts Administration graduate of Wagner College on Staten Island, where he currently teaches Theatre Appreciation. In 2021, he received a Berkshire Theatre Critics Association Special Award for Exceptional Support of Arts Journalism in the Berkshires.

THE PRESS ROOM (National Press Representatives) represents the Broadway productions of Hamilton and The Book of Mormon, as well as the Vineyard Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe, The Wooster Group, Rosie’s Theater Kids, Building for the Arts, Hunter Theater Project, Miami New Drama, Paper Mill Playhouse, Ogunquit Playhouse, 3-D Theatricals, NY Classical Theatre, The Drama Book Shop and the Antonyo Awards. Recent: Black No More; The Waverly Gallery; Gloria: A Life, Three Tall Women; Farinelli and the King; Beyond Babel; Waterwell’s 7 Minutes; Out of the Box Theatrical’s The Last Five Years. Upcoming: Florida Georgia Line’s May We All; Personality: The Lloyd Price Musical; Born for This; Mister Miss America; Sidney.