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3.69 AVERAGE
3.69 AVERAGE
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
dark
emotional
funny
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Poignant, funny, atmospheric... You may not be receptive to it the first time; I wasn't. That's fine. Try it again in the right mood and it might blow you away.
challenging
dark
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Strong character development:
No
funny
mysterious
reflective
fast-paced
dark
emotional
funny
mysterious
reflective
fast-paced
This is spectacular. I will probably read this hundreds of times throughout my life and I’m desperate to see it performed. I love Beckett more and more, the intrinsic comedy of his work is so impressive, somehow crafting pieces that are deeply serious and not so at all. There is an aloofness about his work that makes me want to understand it. I will think for a long time about what this play means but regardless of explicability, it touches you immediately as it circles around its vast emotional core. How completely wonderful for nothing to have happened at all, for everything to exist within it.
E: We weren’t made for the same road.
V: It’s not certain.
E: No, nothing is certain.
V: We can still part, if you think it would be better.
E: It’s not worth while now.
[Silence]
V: No, it’s not worth while now.
[Silence]
E: Well, shall we go?
V: Yes, let’s go.
[They do not move.]
E: We weren’t made for the same road.
V: It’s not certain.
E: No, nothing is certain.
V: We can still part, if you think it would be better.
E: It’s not worth while now.
[Silence]
V: No, it’s not worth while now.
[Silence]
E: Well, shall we go?
V: Yes, let’s go.
[They do not move.]
funny
mysterious
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
funny
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
I do think the minimalist yet sprawling horizon of this play puts every interpretation on the table. Thus, in that way, it really is a masterpiece. It asks big questions about life that are also our most basic. It wonders, ponders, and argues. There's so much to dissect here, but it's intriguing that much of the feast is brought by the audience themselves. I'm genuinely fascinated by it. Yet I believe the missing piece—that inherently must to be missing for this to work—is indeed the same chasm that keeps me from feeling its full breadth and brilliance.
I first read this as a teenager and my take was similar. It was disruptive, it was confident, and it was mysterious—but what makes it great is also what formulates the case against it. For me, it's hard not to love this, a profound conversation with the existential and all that each of us bring to it. It engages the audience in the most universal and striking dialogue there is, and yet at its surface level, not much happens. But that could easily be boring, and it just isn't. There's something to these two, or these four, characters, surrounding by the vast and the barren, and you want to stop their oddball plight and curious suffering, but you also want them to keep waiting for that goddamn Godot. Strange times we dwell in—forever.
I first read this as a teenager and my take was similar. It was disruptive, it was confident, and it was mysterious—but what makes it great is also what formulates the case against it. For me, it's hard not to love this, a profound conversation with the existential and all that each of us bring to it. It engages the audience in the most universal and striking dialogue there is, and yet at its surface level, not much happens. But that could easily be boring, and it just isn't. There's something to these two, or these four, characters, surrounding by the vast and the barren, and you want to stop their oddball plight and curious suffering, but you also want them to keep waiting for that goddamn Godot. Strange times we dwell in—forever.