Two-time Governor General's Award-winning playwright Morris Panych has done with What Lies Before Us the almost unthinkable: he has turned Waiting for Godot into a comedy while simultaneously heightening rather than minimizing the profound existential questions it asks. But this play is no mere parody of a theatre classic, nor is it a "history play." The roots of Panych's comedy extend to the confrontation of Shakespeare's "rude mechanicals" with...