Auditions for "Waiting for Godot"

Auditions for Waiting for Godot will be held this weekend at the Albans Arts and Conference Center in St. Albans.

They'll be held Saturday, March 10 from 1 to 3 p.m. and Sunday, March 11 from 2 to 4 p.m.

The play focuses on two dilapidated bums who fill their days as painlessly as they can. They wait for Godot, a personage who will explain their interminable insignificance, or put an end to it. They are resourceful, with quarrels and their dependence on each other, as children are. They pass the time 'which would have passed anyway.' A brutal man of means comes by, leading a weakling slave who does his bidding like a mechanical doll. Later on he comes back, blind, and his slave is mute, but the relationship is unchanged. Every day a child comes from the unknown Godot, and evasively puts the big arrival off until tomorrow. It is a tragic view. Yet, in performance, most of it is brilliant, bitter comedy. It is a portrait of the dogged resilience of a man's spirit in the face of little hope.

The Alban Arts and Conference Center is located at 65 Olde Main Street in St. Albans.

The show runs April 27-28, 8 p.m., April 29 at 2 p.m., May 4-5 at 8 p.m. and May 6 at 2 p.m.