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WFG (Winter)
An Honorific Show of Drag
Concept & Development: Igor Alvarez Cugat
Production & Artistic Management: Paul Shacallis
Stage Management: Alex Sanchez
WFG is a queer and physical deconstruction of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, transforming its structure of two days and two waiting figures into a ritual of mourning and survival. The piece honors four friends who died by suicide and four symbolic forms of self-destruction, explored through physical exhaustion and performance endurance.
The first act, through Vladimir, is philosophical and introspective, reflecting on loneliness, time, and imagined deaths. The second act, embodied by Estragon, reinterprets real suicides through the language of musicals, turning despair into performance.
When Godot still does not arrive, the characters merge, possessed by despair.
The cycle repeats endlessly, an echo of waiting, loss, and the fragile hope that next time,
Godot might be in the audience.
Inspired by Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Genre: Performance / Lipsync Theatre
Themes: Mental health, emotional resilience, and personal transformation
Duration: Approximately 50 minutes
Language: English, Dutch, Spanish & French
Audience Limit: 16 or 20 witnesses
The location for this week:
Garnalenkerk
Willemsstraat 61 - 63 , 1015 HW Amsterdam
You will experience: Winter.
This piece unfolds as a sequence of lipsync performances, a journey through winter and the many voices that inhabit it.
This performance explores themes of mental health, emotional struggle, suicide and personal vulnerability.Some parts may be emotionally intense or triggering for certain viewers.
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Set in a desolate space, with only a tree as witness, WFG unfolds over the course of time. A figure waits, a symbol of exhaustion and desire, while lip-sync tributes erupt like ruptures in time, honoring members of the LGBTQIA2S+ community lost to depression. This performance reimagines Beckett’s eternal waiting as a queer ritual of survival. Here, waiting is for acceptance, love, and the small permission to stay alive one more night. What begins as a ritual becomes a haunting. WFG is a drag requiem, a witness, and a celebration of those who could not stay. It is not only a show, it is a vigil.
