September 27, 2026

This Samuel Beckett play inspired Antoinette Nwandu's Chicago-set drama Pass Over and was staged at Johannesburg's Centre for the Less Good Idea in October 2020, becoming the first live-audience physical event in South Africa since the start of its COVID-19 lockdown. Which absurdist play is being described?

A Waiting for Godot
B Medea
C Dear Evan Hansen
D Spamalot

Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett's tragicomedy, had a 2020 Johannesburg production directed by Phala Ookeditse Phala that marked South Africa's first live-audience physical event since COVID lockdown. In Chicago, Antoinette Nwandu's Pass Over takes direct inspiration from the play.

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