I'm Elvis Mitchell. Welcome to the treat. Writer director Ben David Grabinski makes comedies noir about loyalty and paranoia.

His newest is the Hulu film Mike and Nick and Nick and Alice.

For his treat, he makes note of the Broadway revival of an absurdist comedy about paranoia and loyalty,

starring a pair of actors known for playing dudes who remain

loyal under the most absurd circumstances.

Hi, I'm Ben David Grabinski, and this is The Treat.

I wanted to talk about the recent run of Waiting for Godot on Broadway, directed by Jamie Lloyd, and starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter.

I saw it three times because I was really blown away by it.

Jamie Lloyd is someone who I find very inspiring.

I went to London to see his run of Avita.

I thought his Sunset Boulevard was really mind-blowing.

And I thought it was confounding in an amazing way because it leaned into a lot of stuff I love about buddy comedies.

But, you know, we know Godot.

And then you also have the added layer of like Alex and Keanu together.

Yeah. layer of like Alex and Keanu together. I just found it very inspiring and engaging and the nature of it, the absurdism, and the kind of

way that sometimes it's impossible to really know the intention behind stuff.

I haven't seen a play like multiple times and when I saw that one three times,

every time it felt different. It felt like there was a different shading to their performances.

It made me also feel disoriented in a way where I felt like,

was this the same order of dialogue last time?

There's this thing about the tone of it and the disconnect from kind of normal reality, where I kind

of felt like I was caught in the same fugue state as the characters.

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