Waiting can be tedious. In the next production of the Northern Illinois University School of Theatre and Dance, waiting also can be all about facing the unknown.

Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot” runs Oct. 31 through Nov. 4 in the Stevens Building Corner Theatre on the NIU campus.

“It’s not a play you can give labels to,” student Dan O’Reilly, who plays Pozzo, said in a news release. “There’s no hero and no epic adventure. The most important thing about ‘Waiting for Godot’ is that you can’t make assumptions about what Samuel Beckett meant. This play is whatever you want it to be.”