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Waiting for Godot (/ ˈ ɡ ɒ d oʊ / ⓘ GOD-oh or / ɡ ə ˈ d oʊ / ⓘ gə-DOH [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 ...
Godot once again postpones his appointment, as a boy (Jack McSherry at the reviewed performance) comes at the end of the first and second acts to report. The play, like our lives, is circular, the ...
The "optimist" (and, as Beckett put it, "the major character" 1) of Godot, he represents the intellectual side of the two main characters (in contrast to his companion Estragon's earthy simplicity). One explanation of this intellectualism is that he was once a philosopher.
Waiting for Godot, a herald for the Theatre of the Absurd. Festival d'Avignon, dir. Otomar Krejča, 1978.. The theatre of the absurd (French: théâtre de l'absurde [teɑtʁ(ə) də lapsyʁd]) is a post–World War II designation for particular plays of absurdist fiction written by a number of primarily European playwrights in the late 1950s.
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Pozzo is a character from Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot. [1] His name is Italian for "well" (as in "oil well"). On the surface he is a pompous, sometimes foppish, aristocrat (he claims to live in a manor, own many slaves and a Steinway piano), cruelly using and exploiting those around him (specifically his slave, Lucky and, to a lesser extent, Estragon).