Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts (1953)

Kids' lit assignment for Y4, W21. ( )

It never went anywhere....

Seriously, I got it. There's no god, people are tools. Now, say it again, and keep on saying it. ( )

I have no idea what I just read.

Someone else read this and said perhaps it lost something in text as opposed to being performed. I think they must be right. ( )

Un'opera che spiazza. Che lascia molti interrogativi e poche certezze. Cosa si cela dietro le surreali conversazioni/avventure dei protagonisti? L'elogio dell'attesa fine a se stessa che da nessuna parte conduce? Personalmente propendo per l'elogio del non-senso della vita. Imprevedibile, sempre mutevole, irrazionale e priva di ragione. Come se l'uomo vivesse immerso in una sorta di universo schopenaueriano, in cui una volontà che desidera senza scopo muove la sua vita senza condurla ad alcun fine. Ma è un'interpretazione con riserva. Beckett resta piuttosto criptico. Altri, forse, avran visto più lontano di me. ( )

Waiting for Godot is, of course, the most famous of Beckett's plays and the one through which most people - myself included - first discover him. Its importance in the history of Western theatre cannot be understated.

However, he himself was never happy with this play and it's actually the least typical of all his theatre work. It's the most accessible of his plays and a must-read to prep you for the work that follows it, and for that reason alone it will always be an important work to me. But it will never be my favorite. ( )