Play is emblem of New Orleans' problems

Source: Yahoo! News

NEW ORLEANS - An empty intersection. A tree surrounded by hurricane debris. Ruined houses still untouched since they were flooded by roof-deep water. Now they've been joined by an outdoor stage, with actors and an audience.

The city's darkest corner, the flood-flattened Lower 9th Ward where few people have rebuilt their homes 26 months after Hurricane Katrina, has been turned into a theater presenting symbolic and poignant free performances of Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot."

The performances are capturing the zeitgeist of a city waiting impatiently for Katrina's aftershocks to subside. So many people showed up for Friday's opening night performance, even those who'd never heard of Beckett before, that hundreds were turned away because seating was limited to 500. Some arrived with babies in their arms, others still in their blue work coveralls, others from the wealthiest parts of town.

Like the two tramps looking for Godot in Beckett's 1949 masterpiece, New Orleanians know about waiting...

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The power of art. 'Nuff said.

NGU.

Can't say anything.

as long as Republics have a say so in New Orleans. They never wanted New Orleans rebuilt, they even let the disaster happen beyond any reason for the sole reason of politics. All along they knew if they could gut New Orleans, Louisiana would go blue.

had absolutely NO DAMAGE. The priviledged greedy hatful scum elite of uptown want nothing better than to own the whole city and make all the poor whites and Blacks leave or limit their numbers so they have enough maids and gardeners. They are filth.