Review | ‘Waiting for Godot’ more excellent than bogus with Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter

Let’s call it “Bill & Ted’s Existential Adventure.”

Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter, forever linked as the slacker duo from “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure” and its sequels, have reunited not for another time-travel comedy but “Waiting for Godot,” Samuel Beckett’s classic existential drama about time stopping, in a place where nothing happens, nothing changes, and the waiting never ends.

First staged in 1953, “Godot” is the cornerstone of absurdist theater: two tramps, Vladimir (Reeves) and Estragon (Winter), spend their days waiting for a mysterious figure named Godot, who never shows up. To pass the time, they argue, clown around, share scraps of memory, and are interrupted by the pompous Pozzo (Brandon Dirden), his servant Lucky (Michael Patrick Thornton), and a Boy who delivers the sa