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,
Theatre of the Absurd plots of many Absurdist plays feature characters in interdependent pairs, commonly either two males or a male and a female. Some Beckett scholars call this the "pseudocouple". The two characters may be roughly equal or have a begrudging interdependence (like Vladimir and Estragon in "Waiting for Godot" or the two main characters in "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead"); one character may be clearly dominant and may torture the passive character (like Pozzo and Lucky in "Waiting for Godot" or Hamm and Clov in "Endgame"); the relationship of the characters may shift dramatically throughout the play (as in Ionesco's "The Lesson"