←Recommendations of On Queue

"Waiting for Godot" is a tough play to parody, yet Norkin takes the inspiration and really makes it his own. Man 1 and Man 2 are fun, funny, and at their wits end. It can't be commended enough how the play isn't a rehash of what makes "Waiting for Godot" so famous. The play moves, with a quick pace, a careful wit, and two characters that are easy to watch. This would be a great play for a theatre company to put on.

I thought this to be a good play in the age of writing about nothingness, which always gives us readers and theatergoers a chance to discuss what it's really about...somethingness, if you will. (I hope that makes sense.) Anyway, whether it's about life, death or just impatience about cutting in line or people showing up on time, Mr. Norkin has handled the dialogue in a clever way and without a doubt keeps us interested and willing to debate the play's meaning. Recommended!

Fast paced and funny without a trace of ennui, and how often do you get to say that about a take on GODOT?!

Norkin has great fun with these two characters, one mild and constant, the other subtly bouncing between moods and attitudes, kindness and dickishness. Their perfectly crafted conversation smoothly rolls from subject to subject with ease, astute wit, and a hilarious yet grounded absurdism.

I would love to see this play over and over, even though I hope these two characters never meet again. Except of course when this play is performed. Over and over!

In ON QUEUE Norkin perfectly nails the culture and etiquette we must adhere to when waiting in a queue, even if there are only two people in it! This is especially true in the UK! I particularly enjoyed the awkward interaction between the two impatient men and loved the look they give to the audience, I won't say where that is, find out for yourself!

As a British person, the institution that is queuing comes with lots of complicated rules and relationships can be forged in the right queue. To me that's what happened here, two characters, despite having no names, give the audience clear and wonderfully created identities as they debate while in a queue (or the forming of queue). The simplicity of the staging means this piece could (and should) be staged anywhere!

This play is super surreal in a very real way and I love it! The meta moment on page 7 had me laughing out loud. This would be so much fun to stage and so open for production to interpret, you could see this produced by a hundred different theatres and never see the same play twice. That is something wonderful! And perhaps a fun challenge? Let's get a hundred theatres to do this piece and compare!!

A clever, short-form take on a familiar premise - the interplay between this two-hander's central figures is humorous and real, their motivations and proclivities immediately clear. I was tickled by the specificity and the references that come after the play takes its meta turn. I have no doubt that this will be a crowd-pleaser, Norkin's accolades, well deserved.

This is a witty and engaging spoof riffing off Waiting for Godot. The characters each have their own unique quirks and foibles that are quite funny in and of themselves and even funnier as they bounce off one another. And I will never see Meryl Streep again without thinking of Michael Caine.

I love the meta theatrical take on Godot, and how people in awkward conversations will quote lines from movies or from something they have read and completely ignore the original context. So the thought of imagining an actor playing us as another person or character, regardless of gender, personality, or anything remotely resembling ourselves, is very intriguing. I would really like to to see a live performance of this very witty, absurd play.