Kaleb Alexander and Mazin Elsadig in Pass Over, Photo by Cesar Ghisilieri
Modelling itself on Waiting for Godot, Antoinette Nwandu’s Pass Over pays homage to the absurdist humour and relentless despair of Samuel Beckett’s tragicomic classic, but uses them to address a less abstract, more specific problem. It is not the meaningless of life that must be endured by her two protagonists, it is the immediate reality of being Black in North America. Under the austere yet playful direction of Philip Akin, Obsidian Theatre’s production is stark and piercing. Continue Reading