Ernest Kearney covered Richard Lucas’ award-winning Bono and the Edge Waiting for Godomino’s at this year’s Hollywood Fringe Festival. The show has been remounted and is running for a limited time at The Whirefire Theatre in Sherman Oaks. Below is a reposting of Mr. Kearney’s original Fringe review.
By Ernest Kearney — Bono and the Edge Waiting for Godomino’s by writer/director Richard Lucas approaches being the ultimate Fringe offering. Like the legendary shows Beyond the Fringe, The Mighty Boosh, Bing Hitler, Lucas has served up a dish both cerebral and madcap and pulls it off brilliantly.
The recipe is rather basic: Take Samuel Beckett’s absurdist masterpiece Waiting for Godot and make it even more absurd by transposing the characters of Estragon and Vladimir with Bono and David Evans (aka The Edge) of the iconic Irish rock band U2.
Makes perfect sense to me.
With Lucas doing such a spot-on Bono that the Irish rocker could shave by him, and Curt Collier as The Edge/Go-Go, the evening is a wickedly amusing mix of references to the Beckett play and the lifestyle of the rich and famous. Where the absurdity ends or begins is anyone’s guess.
With Jeff Blumberg as Lucky and Bruno Oliver as Domingo, (their Malibu neighbors filling out the solid cast), Lucas’ two “tramps” are not waiting for existentialism, laden with scriptural allusions throwing a Jungian shadow as Godot: They’re waiting for a pizza.
Well, okay, pizza can be kinda existential.
What is delivered is remarkably silly and entertaining fun.
For being so tasty a PLATINUM MEDAL.
Bono and the Edge Waiting for Godomino’s is playing Saturday nights at The Whitefire Theatre in Sherman Oaks.
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