Review: Hoping a Woman Will Bring Wonders in "Waiting for Gadot"
Waiting for Gadot Written by Annabel McConnachie Directed by Hannah Marie Pederson Presented at Chain Theatre 312 West 36 Street, Floor 3, Manhattan, NYC February 6-21, 2026 L to R: Ellie Lauther, Gabi Schwartz, Nicole Lado, Kaia Parnell, Spencer Hazen, Isabel Criado. Photo by Callee Egan. Most of us have at some point in our lives done something in imitation of a celebrity whom we admire. Maybe that was taking up an instrument. Maybe it was purchasing something (makeup? clothing? cryptocurrency?) because of an endorsement. Maybe, as in Waiting for Gadot , it was eating oily muffins out of a trash bag. Who can say? The characters in Waiting for Gadot , which made its debut at the Chain Theatre's Winter One-Act Festival this February, are focused on the anticipated arrival not of the ambiguous figure of the Samuel Beckett play on which it riffs but the quite specific, real-life actor Gal Gadot. With Waiting for Gadot , playwright Annabel McConnachie–whose Archive of My Own and...