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Title: Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
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Author: Samuel Beckett
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Comments for Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts

• Posted on 2009-11-20
  Waiting, waiting, waiting but Gadot never comes
  
  Not as good as I thought, a lot of repetition. It's like listening to two idiots talk all day about nothing and waiting for someone (Gadot) to save them from their miserable lives.
  
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• Posted on 2009-11-14
  Waiting for Pointot
  
  Damvlad: It will come.
  Estrogen: Yes, I know. When it does, we move.
  Damvlad: Right arm.
  Estrogen: You mean right on?
  Damvlad: That's right.
  Estrogen: On.
  Damvlad: Arm.
  Estrogen: But the point!
  Damvlad: It will come.
  Estrogen: Perhaps.
  Damvlad: Yes, perhaps, but why wait?
  Estrogen: Maybe that's the point.
  Damvlad: It could be. Either way, we are waiting.
  Estrogen: True.
  Damvlad: Lots of people think there's a point.
  Estrogen: Some don't.
  Damvlad: Some do, some don't, but either way, we must wait.
  Estrogen: That doesn't mean there's a point.
  Damvlad: What other point could there be?
  Estrogen: Do we even need a point?
  Damvlad: Some people might.
  Estrogen: Even if there's no point?
  Damvlad: Perhaps.
  Estrogen: Maybe we should go.
  Damvlad: No, I still think that we should wait.
  Estrogen: Maybe that's the point.
  Damvlad: Right arm.
  
  
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• Posted on 2009-09-05
  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 on 2009-08-27
  "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 best for this one.
  
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• Posted on 2009-08-20
  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 Grove in Florida - where it had been advertised as the "the laugh hit of two continents" - and starred Burt Lahr, the "Cowardly Lion" from "The Wizard of Oz". The first night audience was clearly not expecting the sort of existential drama that Beckett had written - and many of them walked out during the performance. It was also comprehensively panned in press reviews. However, the production subsequently transferred to Broadway. It performed reasonably well there - but, by then, Schneider had been replaced as its director.
  The cast is different for this TV production, but this tape makes clear that Scheider had a deep appreciation and understanding of the piece - and how it should be played. His direction is seldom obtrusive, but never moves far from the heart of the drama, and there is a fluidity and assurance in his use of cameras which remains very impressive. Of course, Scheider was helped by a very strong cast - who not only display a high level of performance skill, but also show a convincing grasp of the play's underlying themes. This tape was recorded almost half-a-century ago, and there are inevitably a few technical glitches - but what comes across is the startlingly contemporary nature of both Beckett's work, and this production.
  
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