En attendant Godot, staging by Otomar Krejca, Avignon Festival, 1978
Written by
Samuel Beckett
Characters
Vladimir Estragon Pozzo Lucky A Boy
Mute
Godot
Date premiered
5 January 1953; 71 years ago (1953-01-05)
Place premiered
Théâtre de Babylone [fr], Paris
Original language
French
Genre
Tragicomedy (play)
Waiting for Godot (/ˈɡɒdoʊ/ⓘGOD-oh[1]) is a play by Irish playwright Samuel Beckett in which two characters, Vladimir (Didi) and Estragon (Gogo), engage in a variety of discussions and encounters while awaiting the titular Godot, who never arrives.[2]Waiting for Godot is Beckett's reworking of his own original French-language play, En attendant Godot, and is subtitled (in English only) "a tragicomedy in two acts".[3]
The original French text was composed between 9 October 1948 and 29 January 1949.[4] The premiere, directed by Roger Blin, was on 5 January 1953 at the Théâtre de Babylone [fr], Paris. The English-language version premiered in London in 1955. In a poll conducted by the British Royal National Theatre in 1998/99, it was voted the "most significant English-language play of the 20th century".[5][6][7]
^Piepenburg, Erik (30 April 2009). "Anthony Page of Waiting for Godot Teaches Us How to Pronounce Its Title". The New York Times. Retrieved 26 March 2024. Well GOD-dough is what Samuel Beckett said. Also, the word has to echo Pozzo. That's the right pronunciation. Go-DOUGH is an Americanism, which isn't what the play intended.
^Itzkoff, Dave (12 November 2013). "The Only Certainty Is That He Won't Show Up". The New York Times. Retrieved 12 November 2013.
^Ackerley & Gontarski 2006, p. 620.
^Ackerley & Gontarski 2006, p. 172.
^Berlin 1999.
^"Waiting for Godot voted best modern play in English" by David Lister, The Independent, 18 October 1998
^Sierz, Aleks (2000). Barker, Clive; Trussler, Simon (eds.). "NT 2000: the Need to Make Meaning". New Theatre Quarterly. 16 (2). Cambridge University Press: 192–193. doi:10.1017/S0266464X00013713. ISBN 9780521789028. S2CID 191153800.
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