*edited on 23.05.2021Was I sleeping while the others suffered? Am I sleeping now? Tomorrow, when I wake or think I do, what shall I say of today? That with Estragon my friend, at this place until the fall of night, I waited for Godot? link: sourceE: here you are! Again, writing some bullshit!V: well, it’s about a play by Beckett!E: oh! again! what is it about?V: it is an existential tragicomedy- “nothing to be done”E: oh! absurd!V: yea, it is, it is ‘Waiting for Godot’E: what Godoh God ot Goddoh...

When he wrote Godot, Samuel Beckett was setting out to Flatten his self and its native habitat into a thin strip of organic material, much as a biologist would slice a strip of life paper-thin, in order to prepare a glass slide for his microscope.Next, Beckett applied the reductionism of a modern Occam’s Razor (the KISS Principle: ‘keep it simple, stupid!’) to his belief that the universe is absurd.Henceforth all meaning would become for him and his audience a reductio ad absurdem into sharp Mea...

Aunque es algo habitual en este tipo de textos, no deja de ser curiosa la cantidad y variedad de interpretaciones a la que se presta la obra, solo hay que leer los comentarios de los compañeros y compañeras de goodreads, entre los que se defienden posiciones a veces radicalmente opuestas. Ahí es donde, pienso yo, radica la gran popularidad de la que goza: al igual que una imagen del test de Rorschach, la obra se metamorfosea en aquello que le importa a cada lector.Pero, ¿cuál es la interpretació...

One of the most entertaining and uplifting stories you will ever come across. Every time I get done with this read I feel wonderful and inspired. Why? Because Beckett sees the truth about being human: there is Nothing to be done. And laughter is such a potent weapon against despair.

ا"لا شيء يحدث و لا احد يجيء "هذا هو بإختصار فحوى تلك التراجيدية المضحكة!؟سيظل الإنسان منتظرا للأبد لاي شيء..العدل..الثراء..النصر..او المختار الذي سيجلب معه السعادة.. اليس هذا هو حال البشر؟؟ احقاقا للحق...ارى ان المسرحيات🎭 لابد أن نشاهدها على المسرح فقط..لا لكي نقرأها أو حتى نشاهدها على الشاشات...ولكن لان هذه المسرحية العبثية احتلت المركز الأول بين ما تم كتابته بالإنجليزية في القرن20..قرأتها...تعجبت قليلا من أسلوبها الغير مألوف..سيل من الثرثرة الغير منطقية ولكني ضبطت نفسي استعمل اسم المسرحية في ...

WAITING FOR GODOT IN ANTARCTICA An audience gathers to preview a screening of a new version of this Samuel Beckett play. The directed striped his rendition down to bare existential black and white by filming in Antarctica and using penguins as actors. The problem of dialogue is solved by the technique of voice-over.In the first act, two penguins stand on bleak, snow-covered ice. There’s a close up of one penguin. The voice-over says, “Nothing to be done.”The camera slowly scans to the other peng...

Who wants to see a play in which nothing happens? Who wants to see a play in which the characters make little or no sense? Who wants to see a play in which the same senseless nothingness is repeated in the second and only other act? Not me that’s for sure. I honestly don’t think I could sit through a production of this, but that doesn’t mean I can’t appreciate its artistic merit on the page. Nothing happens, but that is the beauty of it. A famous theatre reviewer once said “this is a play in wh...

“What happened?"“Nothing happened.”“Why did nothing happen?“How would I know?”“You would know.”“I would?”“Yes.”“How I would know?”“Because you read it.”“Did I?”“Yes.““How do you know?”“It is on your shelf.”“So?”“You rated it.”“What does it mean?”“It means you have read it.”“Oh I have.”“So what happened?”“Nothing happened.”“Why did nothing happen?”“Because they were waiting for Godot.”Waiting and nothing – I could take these two words and use them in as many combinations as the rules of probabili...

We are no longer alone, waiting for ‎the night, waiting for Godot, waiting ‎for… waiting.كل شيء هنا يتافر ليعطيك نتيجة واحدة ‏لا خلاصلا خلاص من أي نوعإنك محاصر.. مقيد.. لا تستطيع الهربفأنت أصلا لا تستطيع الحركةدماغك محصور بأفكار معينةتقيدك قبل أن تسمح لك بالتمعن فيما حولكلتدرك أنك عاجز عن التحكم بأبسط أمور حياتك‏كما بأكثرها تعقيدالا خلاصحتى الانتحار.. مستحيل:::::::::::كلنا ننتظر جودوالشخصياتالجمهورالقراءوحتى الكاتب نفسهلا يزال ينتظرعالما وعالمين جميعا أنه انتظار بلا طائلإنه تعزيز أكبر للاشيء ‏ال...

ACT IIIVLADIMIR: They've called us back. ESTRAGON: For an encore?VLADIMIR: No, we're supposed to say what it means.[A pause]ESTRAGON: What what means?VLADIMIR: This play! We have to explain it.ESTRAGON: And then?VLADIMIR: [discouraged] I don't know. Maybe Godot will arrive. But again, maybe he won't. He's not very reliable. [Another pause] Still, we can try.[They both think deeply]VLADIMIR: Any ideas yet?ESTRAGON: My boots don't fit. My feet hurt.VLADIMIR: [furious] Idiot! This isn't about your ...