#Play Waiting For Godot

- Playwright: Samuel Beckett
- Title: Waiting for Godot
- Preformed: 1943 5 January Théâtre de Babylone
- Wikipedia link: Samuel Beckett (1906 – 1989)
- List of Challenges 2019
- Monthly reading plan
- #20BooksOfSummer
- Play: nr 7 on list Best 50 Plays
- ….in past 100 years!
Conclusion:
- Reading time: 1 hour 40 min
- Waiting for Godot is theater of absurd.
- Beckett thought the audience
- …MUST feel what it is like to be in an ABSURD world.
- Beckett used bizarre characters speak in what sometimes
- …appears to be illogical, banal, chit chat.
- One cannot read Godot for the story because there is no story
- Waiting for Godot does not tell a story
- It explores a situation….2 tramps..waiting for Godot.
- What are the abusrd characteristics?
- No plot, no recognizable characters, no beginnings no ends,
- …reflections of dreams and nightmares, incoherent babblings.
Last Thoughts:
- The only way to gain any insight is to
- read a summary before starting this play.
- I used this LINK at Free Online Dictionary website.
- This is an excellent summary.
- Waiting for Godot
- …left critics bewildered and is now a classic.
- Nr. 7 on List 50 Best Play in Past 100 yrs.
- I was absolutely dreading this play...
- Need #Heineken


We saw a production a few years ago – I still can’t tell you what it was about!!
I read it 24 hours ago …and still can’t tell you what it is about!
I must admit a production with Patrick Stewart and Ian Mckellen …would have been interesting to see….just to enjoy their acting skills!
The one we saw starred Hugo Weaving and Richard Roxburgh, which was a treat for us to see 2 such marvellous Aussie actors strutting their stuff.
I think it’s a play about waiting. The audience is supposed to experience waiting.