Diffused lighting backdrops and props, the young playwright arrives arms full of thrift store costumes.
The actor is moody, brooding and nervous preparing for his monologue.
Who will make the cut?
Page 17 of the script went missing and no one knows how to end Scene 1.
Let's keep rehearsing.
Opening night.
Footsteps of the prop master as he places the fishes in the bowl.
Koppa the actor will take one by the hand when the curtain goes up.
The audience has no idea that the script has been crumpled up in balls, heaved against the wall,
sobbed into, and flicked loudly when it was crisp.
When it was a gleam in the director's eye
when he was walking along, thinking
the shadows and sun between the trees looked
like an untold story.
Photo source: https://www.thestar.co.uk/news/retro-sheffield-actors-first-on-stage-with-iconic-play-459002
Photo caption: The ground-breaking Sheffield amateur version of Waiting for Godot with John Furniss, second right, as the slave Lucky