![]() ![]() This is the simplified basis for the play that in itself is so abstract that even an attempt of explaining it seems limiting. The men, of whom we know nothing, wait for the mysterious man Godot, contemplate whether he’ll arrive this time, and whilst waiting meet two other men: the powerful Pozzo driven by another man ironically named Lucky. A single tree stands by that road, a tree that will witness a complex and abstract meeting of two fellows, Vladimir and Estragon. Picture an empty country road in the evening. Nobody to whom the names of Pozzo, Lucky, Vladimir and Estragon are familiar would now question this prescient recognition of a classic of twentieth-century European literature. ![]() But, he went on to conclude, that evening at the Babylone in 1953 was the most important première put on in Paris for forty years. ‘Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it is terrible‘ was Jean Anouilh’s judgement on the first production of Waiting for Godot. ![]()
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