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about two characters waiting for someone named Godot, who never arrives.
The plot of Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot” is simple to relate. Two tramps are waiting by a sickly looking tree for the arrival of M. Godot. They quarrel, make up, contemplate suicide, try to sleep, eat a carrot and gnaw on some chicken bones. Two other characters appear, a master and a slave, who perform a grotesque scene in the middle of the play.
A young boy arrives to say that M. Godot will not come today, but that he will come tomorrow. The play is a development of the title, “Waiting for Godot”. He does not come and the two tramps resume their vigil by the tree, which between the first and second day has sprouted a few leaves, the only symbol of a possible order in a thoroughly alienated world.
Anxiety, fear, hope, hopelessness anger and all sorts overtake them but they are tied together by an invisible bond to Godot, who really never comes. This is a classical example of existentialist theatre written in the early stages of Samuel’s Beckett’s career. The play has been performed numerous times all over the world across many cultures.
Godot’s absence, as well as numerous other aspects of the play, has led to many different interpretations since the play’s premiere.
Voted “the most significant English language play of the 20th century”, “Waiting for Godot” is Beckett’s translation of his own original French version, “En attendant Godot”, and is subtitled (in English only), “a tragicomedy in two acts”. Churu says “Waiting for Godot” was nothing more than a psychodrama in the realm of theatre of the absurd or existentialism.
“Having studied psychology, I am always fascinated by works that explore the human mind and how it reacts to its environment and situation,” he said.
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