Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

A classic of modern theatre and perennial favorite of colleges and high schools. "One of the most noble and moving plays of our generation . . . suffused with tenderness for the whole human perplexity . . . like a sharp stab of beauty and pain."--The London Times. more

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Posted: Sep-05-2009

Special note for Kindle readers

On the Kindle, there are instances in which the type becomes microscopically small and can't be made any larger. It's a technical SNAFU. Don't buy this book for the Kindle unless you can read impossibly small type, or you have the means to manually magnify it.

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Posted: Aug-27-2009

"tate-ready!"

If it can be hung, I'm afraid 'waiting for godot' is primed for the tate gallery! I can imagine it created quite a stir back in the early fifties, but then so did Hirst with his sliced-up pigs and horses. The joke's on us.To be sure, the world NEEDED a play like this - and that's why three of the...

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Posted: Aug-20-2009

WAITING FOR GODOT

This TV production comes from 1961, and features Burgess Meredith and the great Zero Mostel. It was directed by Alan Scheider - who also directed the first ever production of Beckett's seminal work in the USA. That was something of a commercial and critical disaster: it opened at the Coconut...

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Posted: Jul-25-2009

How do you keep an idiot in Suspense?

Waiting for Godot is a masterful display of how prolonging conflict is the essence of all good reading. The characters are all "Waiting on Godot" and one wonders why, and who the HELL is Godot anyway. Well, you'll just have to read to find out.Then again, does it matter? It does if you - I...

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Posted: Jun-09-2009

Life Awaits

A wonderful and classic tale of how we spend our lives. Research would indicate that this story had origins in the French Underground of WW II, and its original publication by Grove Press "Made" that business and its owner. Seemingly inane, it reflects the Existentialist view of life, but its...

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Posted: Sep-24-2008

Very Odd play...

I was required to purchase this play for a Theatre class. Personally I don't care for the script. I feel like it is a bit hard to follow and unsatisfying. The vender has been wonderful! Thanks!J. Hickling

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Posted: Sep-09-2008

Waiting for the book to end...

If the author was trying to effect in the reader the pain of interminable, open-ended waiting in line with no insight as to when the line might move, with no other diversions, he succeeded. I found this book excruciating to read. Imagine the dull rambling--desalinated of anything whatsoever...

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Posted: Aug-24-2008

Too Abstract

I am not a very big fan of reading plays but appreciate the humor of "The Importance of Being Earnest" and the drama and tragedy of "Death of a Salesman". This play, however, didn't do anything for me. The plot (characters waiting for someone who never comes) intrigued me and was very original....

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Posted: Mar-24-2008

Waiting and Waiting and Waiting and ...

Waiting and Waiting and Waiting and ...Review of Play: Waiting for Godot - A Tragicomedy in Two Acts Written in: 1949Premiere in: 1953By: Samuel Beckett (1906 - 1989)Originally written in French and translated to English by the author himself.This play takes place on a desolate road next to a...

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Posted: Nov-01-2007

Waiting for Godot

I know this is one of those works that are supposed to be masterpieces, but it did absolutely nothing for me. To be fair, I'm not a theater person, and I never got the appeal of absurdist works or anything else along those lines. I got about a third of the way into this and just couldn't stand to...

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