The Impossible Itself (2010)
1h 9m
Running Time
February 14, 2010Release Date
The Impossible Itself (2010)
1h 9m
Running Time
February 14, 2010Release Date
Plot.
An in depth remembering and re-creation of the famous 1957 production of Waiting For Godot--so famously used by writer Martin Esslin as the introduction to his important work: The Theater of the Absurd. Also covers some little known German performances in which its suggested that former Nazis performed Waiting For Godot at a Jewish Cultural Building in 1956 (new finding). Also covers Beckett's study locale across the street from the Sante prison and the revelation from James Knowlson's Beckett biography Damned To Fame provides the last startling statement on Beckett, the play, and prisoners.
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Release DateFebruary 14, 2010
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 9m
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The Impossible Itself is a 2010 documentary film produced and directed by Jacob Adams, covering the 1957 San Francisco Actor's Workshop production of the Samuel Beckett stage play Waiting For Godot that was taken to San Quentin Prison and performed before its inmates, with an examination of an earlier incarnation of Godot as performed by inmates at the Luttringhausen Prison in Germany in 1953.