Sat, Apr 27
|Solana Beach
BONO AND THE EDGE WAITING FOR GODOMINO’S
Bono orders a pizza delivery to get back in touch with the Common Man... A satire on celebrity culture wrapped in a modern-day parody of ‘Godot’ with questions on art, on being, and on one’s purpose in an absurd, humorous and familiar tune—a clever and ingenious new take on Samuel Beckett’s Waiting
Time & Location
Apr 27, 2024, 8:00 PM – Apr 28, 2024, 9:30 PM
Solana Beach, 742 Genevieve St (Suite F), Solana Beach, CA 92075, USA
About the Event
SYNOPSIS As if Samuel Beckett’s absurdist classic, Waiting for Godot, wasn’t absurd enough, writer/ director Richard Lucas flips the script as U2’s Bono orders a pizza delivery in hopes of getting back in touch with the Common Man. Beckett’s theme of faith against nihilism is brought to life in opposite form as the single-named Bono, a veritable celebrity culture god-on-earth icon, who feels lost and empty in the “trappings” of his own riches and fame. Wracked with guilt and fearing that he’s lost connection with his working-class roots, Bono awaits a pizza delivery in the hopes of conversing with the delivery person about living a “real life.” His lifelong U2 bandmate, The Edge, wants no part of Bono’s socio-spiritual experiment and rejects any thought of inviting opinions or judgments on his hard-earned rock star life, yet he cannot find the will to abandon his truest friend, Bono. Both struggle with…