An audience had to wait for Godot on April 15 in the Salisbury Theatre when they arrived to find the show had sold out its 125 seats.

"Waiting for Godot," the play by Samuel Beckett, is revolutionary because it is a play in which "nothing happens," said Gerald Berman, who played a boy messenger.

The play consists mostly of dialogue between two bums who are "waiting for Godot." They encounter a strange man, Pozzo, played by Rachel Blackwell, whose costume was obviously feminine. Pozzo wore a black and white sequined dress with a puffy petticoat and high, feathered shoes. She brought with her a slave, Lucky, played by Joe Alloway, who had only one line. It was a very long line in the play, which Alloway described as gibberish unless one tried to understand it from a research standpoint.

The complexity of the dialogue and the symbolism of this piece made it an especially challenging performance, but the actors were up for the challenge. When asked what the play really means, the players all had different opinions.

"Godot is everybody, he is within everybody," said Ben Coffroth, who played Vladimir.

"I think its less important who Godot is," Blackwell said. "The important thing is that they are waiting for him."

When asked his about the identity of Godot, Matthew Krell who played Estragon, simply replied, "That is the question."

Berman explained that the casting was not limited by gender or age. He played a very young boy when he usually plays an old man. Berman explained that the play is supposed to be thought provoking. He explained that people can identify with the play because "We all wait for things."

Audience member Ricky Dean, 21 described the setting as "Samuel Beckett meets Tim Burton," because the palette of colors used in the costumes and set consisted mostly of blacks, whites and grays that seemed as if they could have fit in with a Burton-esque world.

Michael, a member of the community, came with his wife Ginger for a birthday present. He said he wanted to see if his reaction would be the same as it had been when he had seen it 40 years ago. Michael likes "Godot's" starkness in dialogue and setting.

Justin Parish, 23 had read the play previously, but did not get caught up in the meaning. "Symbolism just slips me," he said, "I liked it for what it was."

Allie Karman, 19, came for credit in her English 211 class. She was familiar with the material because she had read the book in her class, but was pleasantly surprised by the performance. "This is interesting as opposed to reading the book," she said. "It's not what I expected."

Angela Blandob, who was also watching the play for a class, disagreed. She described the play as very confusing and difficult to understand. "They just talk a lot of nonsense," she said.

The play never explicitly answered any of its confusing questions. It was as Estragon said in the second act: "We spent yesterday blathering about nothing in particular. We've been doing that for half a century now."