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is a 2008 documentary produced and directed by Jacob Adams that covers the famous 1957 San Francisco Actor's Workshop production of the Samuel Beckett play '''Waiting For Godot'''' that was taken to the San Quentin Prison and performed before its inmates. |
is a 2008 documentary produced and directed by Jacob Adams that covers the famous 1957 San Francisco Actor's Workshop production of the Samuel Beckett play '''Waiting For Godot'''' that was taken to the San Quentin Prison and performed before its inmates. |
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is a 2008 documentary produced and directed by Jacob Adams that covers the famous 1957 San Francisco Actor's Workshop production of the Samuel Beckett play Waiting For Godot' that was taken to the San Quentin Prison and performed before its inmates.
PLOT: In addition to covering the San Quentin performance the film also examines an earlier incarnation of Godot performed by inmates at the Luttringhausen Prison in Germany in 1953 providing new scholarship material on those performances.
PRODUCTION: Jacob Adams was 19 when he began working to raise the money to do the film. It was a grueling process taking 9 years to complete all the interviews and editing. Adams travelled to Germany in 2000 and interviewed the former Prison Pastor Hans Freitag about the performances. Freitag claims on camera that the inmates were allowed to leave the prison to perform Godot in a Jewish Cultural Building in Frankfurt and provided documentary evidence to support his claim. Adams later cross-checked the inmate names with names collected in the Holocaust Registry of Nazi officers and found two highly likely matches. The film posits this irony--
The film was dealt a serious budgetary blow by Swedish theatre director Jan Jonson in 2001. Adams travelled to NYC to meet Jonson for an interview for the film. Jonson failed to show and cost the film $2,000. Production would be suspended for the next five years before finishing funds were provided through Adams' student loans.
CAST: features interviews with former S.F. Actor's Workshop members Herbert Blau, Alan Mandell, Eugene Roche, Robert Symonds, Robin Wagner, Joseph Miksak, Tony Miksak, and David Irving as well as former prison inmates Rick Cluchey, Ed Reed, Professor John Irwin and Prison Recreation Supervisor Clem Swagerty.
RECEPTION: The film was qualified for Academy Award consideration as a documentary short subject in 2008 but failed to gain a nomination. The film was lengthened and self-distributed with some success on the education market to such Universities as Stanford, Duke, Cal-Berkeley, UNC, USC, Kansas State and many others. The film is currently being used as a source on three dissertations. Turned down by KQED programmer Scott Dwyer as "too academic". Supported by BBC programmer Roger Thompson, but voted against by their committee. Presented at an Honorarium through Professor David Lloyd of USC.
FILM FESTIVALS: Turned down by the following: Sundance, Cannes, Slamdance, Austin, RiverRun, many others.
FILM WEBSITE: https://sites.google.com/site/jacobadamsimpossiblefilms/home