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  • A seminal work of twentieth-century drama, [this play] was [the author]'s first professionally produced play. It opened in Paris in 1953 at the tiny Left Bank Theatre de Babylone, and has since become a cornerstone of twentieth-century theater.

    The story line evolves around two seemingly home ... Continue

    A seminal work of twentieth-century drama, [this play] was [the author]'s first professionally produced play. It opened in Paris in 1953 at the tiny Left Bank Theatre de Babylone, and has since become a cornerstone of twentieth-century theater.

    The story line evolves around two seemingly homeless men waiting for someone - or something - named Godot. Vladimir and Estragon wait near a tree on a barren stretch of road, inhabiting a drama spun from their own consciousness. The result is a comical wordplay of poetry, dreamscapes, and nonsense, which has been interpreted as a somber summation of mankind's inexhaustible search for meaning. Beckett's language pioneered an expressionistic minimalism that captured the existentialism of post-World War II Europe. His play remains one of the most magical and beautiful allegories of our time.

    "One of the most noble and moving plays of our generation, a threnody of hope deceived and deferred but never extinguished; a play suffused with tenderness for the whole human perplexity, with phrases that come like a sharp stab of beauty and pain." - The Times (London)

    "Reading Beckett for the first time is an experience like no other in modern literature." - Paul Auster

    

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  • I can certainly state that it is because of this play that I started to love the Theatre of the Absurd. I read it a few times, both in English and French, and I saw it on stage in Milan...and every time I find something new and amazing about this work of pure genius. Plus, sumetimes in real life I f ... Continue

    I can certainly state that it is because of this play that I started to love the Theatre of the Absurd. I read it a few times, both in English and French, and I saw it on stage in Milan...and every time I find something new and amazing about this work of pure genius. Plus, sumetimes in real life I feel like I was exactly like the protagonists of the play, lost and useless, unable to change, just waiting for God-ot.

    

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  • "Well?Shall we go?" "Yes, let's go" ... They do not move

  • Esilarante!
    Le risate sono assicurate.
    Dopo le prime pagine ho pensato: Ma questi due tizi..ma come sono messi??? Poi mi ci sono affezionata!
    E' fondamentale immedesimarsi nell'assurdo, se no si finisce per annoiarsi e chiedersi perchè si sta leggendo un dialogo fra stupidi.
    Sa ... Continue

    Esilarante!
    Le risate sono assicurate.
    Dopo le prime pagine ho pensato: Ma questi due tizi..ma come sono messi??? Poi mi ci sono affezionata!
    E' fondamentale immedesimarsi nell'assurdo, se no si finisce per annoiarsi e chiedersi perchè si sta leggendo un dialogo fra stupidi.
    Satira e paradossi degni di un Beckett da applausi!

    

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  • non leggo molte opere teatrali, però la capacità di sintesi di Beckett è staordinaria.

    In pochissime pagine ha sintetizzato la solitudine, la mancanza di aspettative e di obiettivi del mondo moderno.

    

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  • doveri scolastici en français.

    

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"Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful?" Estragon's complaint, uttered in the first act of "Waiting for Godot", is the playwright's sly joke at the expense of his own play - or rather at the expense of those in the audience who expect theatre always to consist of events progressing in an apparently purposeful and logical manner towards a decisive climax. In those terms, "Waiting for Godot" - which has been famously described as a play in which "nothing happens, twice"- scarcely seems recognizable as theatre at all. As the great English critic wrote "Waiting for Godot jettisons everything by which we recognize theatre. It arrives at the custom-house, as it were, with no luggage, no passport, and nothing to declare; yet it gets through, as might a pilgrim from Mars."

Produced at the state of the art recording studios of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation with sound effects and music.

Performed by James Blendick, Joe Dinicol, Tim MacDonald, Tom McCamus, and Stephen Ouimette

Music composed and performed by Don Horsburgh

Approximate Duration 2 Hours

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