Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett Reviews

This the only work by Samuel Beckett that I can relate to. Everything else I've ever read of his left me scratching my head or had me blanking out due to boredom and/or my own ignorance and inability to connect. Beckett's work is abstract, absurd and minimalist but this play captivates me and is a milder example of his style and accessible to ...

At first glance, Waiting for Godot, is a bit weird, although very enjoyable. It is classed as 'theatre of the absurd', ie it has no particular plot, characterisation or theme, and does not reflect nature. However, the play is an attempt to look deep into the human psyche. Beckett uses lots of stage props to symbolise our reliance on ...

Most of the opiions on this play seem to say the same thing - that they found it much more enjoyable when seen in a theatre, or at least imagined it would be. And to me that is the whole point Waiting for Godot: it is a play, and as such is meant to be experienced in the theatre. You may know something of the plot, so briefly: two central ...

Reading Waiting For Godot is the only activity I can recall that makes watching paint dry seem like an extreme sport. Whilst endless repetition and virtually uninterrupted inactivity may express the futility of existence, the fact remains that it's a chore to read. If it's man's inhumanity to man, or the isolation of the ...

In its time, Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting For Godot' was groundbreaking and changed the thinking of modern theatre. It helped create the theatre of the absurd where nothing really actually happens in the play. However, although in its day this was the case, it has arguably become a bit dated and can only be appreciated when seen at the ...

If you are the sort of person who gets fidgety if there is less than 2 killing spree's per minute this is not the play for you!! I have not read the book yet .....but I fully intend to after reading the other opinions here. I wasn't sure if I would be able to read the book from start to finish as having seen the stage play I ...

I skimmed through most of these reviews, and I found a lot of assumptions about this play. On the other hand, I found a lot of vague speculation, which seems the most modest and reliable perspective in approaching this play. To read Beckett is to not find that definite line-- especially in the word "Godot"--which will define the entire ...

Beckett managed to exercise enormous control over how 'Godot' has been staged, so I guess that reading it allows you a certain amount of freedom. Even so, there aren't a whole lot of clues. It's one of those plays which has been interpreted both as the last word in atheism (the tramps spend their entire lives doing absolutely ...

Waiting for Godot is a classic and it seems to be either loved or hated by those who have read, seen or studied it. It is unsual, to say the very least, but when I studied, then saw and then stage managed this play, I grew to love it. Beckett has written a play about two old tramps (more or less), Vladimir and Estragon, who sit and wait ...