Laurel and Hardy Go to Heaven by Paul Auster A play by Paul Auster.A metaphysical burlesque; theatre where the ludicrous meets the Absurd: in Paul Auster’s play "Laurel and Hardy Go to Heaven", the two comedians construct a wall in the after-life,
according to detailed, absurd and arbitrary instructions, yet never discovering the meaning of their appointed task. The two vaudevillians indulge in cross-talk over a metaphysical abyss; full of the kind of comedy and pathos, the trivial and the serious, the scatological and the philosophical “blathering” that we associate with Samuel Beckett’s Didi and Gogo. Unlike Waiting for Godot, this is a play in which something happens: a wall is built. The idea of building a huge stone wall is also reminiscent of Franz Kafka’s The Great Wall of China.
