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  2. Waiting for Godot - Wikipedia

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    The waiting in Godot is the wandering of the novel. "There are large chunks of dialogue which he later transferred directly into Godot." [219] Waiting for Godot has been compared with Tom Stoppard's 1966 play, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Parallels include two central characters who appear to be aspects of a single character and whose ...

  3. Endgame (play) - Wikipedia

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    Originally written in French (entitled Fin de partie), the play was translated into English by Beckett himself [1] and first performed on 3 April 1957 at the Royal Court Theatre in London in a French-language production. Written before but premiering after Waiting for Godot [citation needed], it is usually considered among Beckett's most ...

  4. The Impossible Itself - Wikipedia

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    The Impossible Itself is a 2010 documentary film produced and directed by Jacob Adams, covering the 1957 San Francisco Actor's Workshop production of the Samuel Beckett stage play Waiting For Godot that was taken to San Quentin Prison and performed before its inmates, with an examination of an earlier incarnation of Godot as performed by inmates at the Luttringhausen Prison in Germany in 1953.

  5. Lucky (Waiting for Godot) - Wikipedia

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    Lucky is a character from Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. He is a slave to the character Pozzo. [1] Lucky is unique in a play where most of the characters talk incessantly: he only utters two sentences, one of which is more than seven hundred words long (the monologue). Lucky suffers at the hands of Pozzo willingly and without hesitation.

  6. Pozzo (Waiting for Godot) - Wikipedia

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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).

  7. You go to this L.A. play. When you get there, you find out ...

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    Inspired by Samuel Beckett’s "Waiting for Godot," the theatrical escape room taps into the themes of the original work, creating an open-for-interpretation piece of playfully interactive art ...

  8. Estragon - Wikipedia

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    Estragon represents the impulsive, simplistic side of the two main characters, much in contrast to his companion Vladimir's careful intellectualism and verbosity. He cares little for appearances, and is mostly concerned with eating and sleeping (much to Vladimir's chagrin).

  9. 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature - Wikipedia

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    In his most famous work, the drama En attendant Godot (Waiting for Godot, 1952), he examines the most basic foundations of our lives with strikingly dark humor. [2] Among his other famous literary works include Krapp's Last Tape (1958), Happy Days (1961) and The Molloy Trilogy (1955–58). Poster for drama performance of Beckett's Waiting for ...