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Waiting for Godot

Samuel Beckett

3.69 AVERAGE

challenging emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous funny mysterious fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
challenging funny medium-paced
dark funny reflective medium-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
adventurous challenging funny 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
funny mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character

ESTRAGON There are times when I wonder if it wouldn't be better for us to part.
VLADIMIR You wouldn't go far
emotional mysterious sad 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: Yes

incredible script, i don’t like reading plays but it was so good

I just finished Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett. While it seems pointless and inane on the surface, I really enjoyed the play and the story that Beckett told.

I read it as two people, Vladimir and Estragon, caught in purgatory who get a glimpse of their future selves in the characters of Pozzo and Lucky. Vladimir and Estragon are waiting for Godot, who never arrives, and they are caught in a vicious, never ending cycle, kind of like the movie Groundhog Day. It is interesting to contemplate what they would have to do to finally meet Godot to move out of the purgatory in which they are caught.

Waiting for Godot is short, humorous, bizarre (in an okay way), and it is a pretty memorable imagining of the hereafter.
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes

didi and gogo now in the running for my favorite onstage couple. shocking how much can be seen in (or perhaps projected onto) this. inkblotty. riotously funny onstage (big ups to r mcnamara of scena theatre in DC - the bloviating ego was apparently well and hard earned.) 

 ESTRAGON:
You'll help me?
VLADIMIR:
I will of course.
ESTRAGON:
We don't manage too badly, eh Didi, between the two of us?
VLADIMIR:
Yes yes. Come on, we'll try the left first.
ESTRAGON:
We always find something, eh Didi, to give us the impression we exist? 
dark emotional funny lighthearted mysterious fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: N/A
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No