Don McLennan Film Festival. In 1985 he started Ukiyo Theatre with Friedrich. They co-produced a trio of plays by Samuel Beckett, "Waiting For Godot", Krapp's Last Tape" and "Endgame" performed by the American theater group San Quentin Drama Workshop. The plays were directed by Beckett and toured Australia, Singapore and Italy. In 1990 McLennan moved to Los Angeles and established himself as a scriptwriter. He wrote scripts for Dimension Films, and several other leading production companies. He continues to direct documentaries, PSA's for Federal and State Elections, and TV reality programs. Don McLennan Don McLennan (born 1950) is an Australian film director,
Waiting for Godot at the French "Tour de France" bicycle race, who told him “Nous attendons Godot” — they were waiting for a competitor whose name was Godot. "Beckett said to Peter Woodthorpe that he regretted calling the absent character 'Godot', because of all the theories involving God to which this had given rise. "I also told [Ralph] Richardson that if by Godot I had meant God I would [have] said God, and not Godot. This seemed to disappoint him greatly." That said, Beckett did once concede, "It would be fatuous of me to pretend that I am not aware of the meanings