Beckettre Varva (2008)

Szilard Podmaniczky's piece is a paraphrase of Samuel Beckett's classic Waiting for Godot. Vladimir and Estragon, two unemployed old actors, meet in No Man's Land and wait for someone to write a play for them, bringing them to life. Soon the Boy and Woman arrive and tell him that Mr. Beckett is writing a five-character play in which he expects them. The news gives meaning to their lives, and throughout the play we follow their hopeful stumbling under the guidance of a mysterious guardian angel acting as a deus ex machina. Later, as two film actors, Pozzo and Lucky arrive, further complicating the plot. The "events", the anticipation, roll unstoppably towards the end, while the characters strive to "solve" their lives by raising big questions of life and death.