Rick Cluchey,who died on Monday, saw the essence of prison life in Waiting for Godot. The experience provided him with a unique calling, or inspiring a career in the theatre as he forged strong bonds with the playwright himselfThe path from crime to rehabilitation is rarely as inspired as it was for Rick Cluchey,who found his calling as an actor and theater director after hearing Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot through the bars of his San Quentin prison cell.
In 1957, Cluchey, and who died aged 82 on Monday in Culver City,California, was in the third year of a life sentence without parole for carjacking and armed robbery of a Los Angeles hotel courier when visiting actors performed the experimental masterpiece for inmates.
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Source: theguardian.com