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Hobos Vladimir and Estragon wait and wait, discuss suicide, religion and violence, meet the cruel Pozzo and his robotic slave Lucky, try on shoes and hats and eat vegetables.
While reading this I wondered why this play, first performed in 1952, hadn't been the catalyst to the new wave of British theater rather than Osborne's Look Back In Anger, which came four years later. Waiting For Godot was certainly a radical play for it's time, with surrealists bits of disjointed conversation, references to ...more
While reading this I wondered why this play, first performed in 1952, hadn't been the catalyst to the new wave of British theater rather than Osborne's Look Back In Anger, which came four years later. Waiting For Godot was certainly a radical play for it's time, with surrealists bits of disjointed conversation, references to ...more
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When I finally fiured out that the plot wasn't supposed to make sense, I enjoyed this book a lot more.
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Short and amusing
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