Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot

Pros: wit and mystery

Cons: overlong

The Bottom Line: If you can't see it, read it.

Review: In the half century since its première in French, millions of words have been written about Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot. It is probably the most famous twentieth-century play. Beckett himself rejected the interpretation, which is ...

Pros: It simply is.

Cons: It simply is.

Review: Most plays are not meant to be read. Especially not Beckett. Especially not famous Beckett.

I know this.

For some reason, I have a Ph.D. in theatre. This means I have read a lot of plays. So I know this. Trust me.

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Pros: the more you eat, the worse it tastes

Cons: get used to the muck as you go along

The Bottom Line: This is a classic, deserving of its applause for a perfect portrayal of the cord that keeps us hanging on. But you must wait to find out what it is.

Review: Waiting for Godot. Maybe tonight or tomorrow evening.

Two vagabonds are soliciting a barren road, waiting for the delayed, or the inevitable, or the non existent. They are waiting for a mysterious being by the name of Mr. Godot.

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Pros: Intelligent Dialogue, Thought-provoking

Cons: Can be hard to understand

The Bottom Line: Captured in this play are two humans, two lives, and their interaction provides a wealth of knowledge, insight, and need for self reflection in the reader.

Review: "Waiting for Godot" is a masterpiece. This is an amazing work that will have you thinking longer th ...

Pros: Multi-layered Stream of Ideas and Images

Cons: It Might Inspire some Existentialist Leanings (Wait, that's not Really a Bad Thing!)

Review: If Sartre's No Exit is existentialism's Great Abyss then Godot is its backhanded offer of Redemption, reminding us that simply being, simply living, may be enough. There may be nothing else out there, nothing beyond our frame of existence,...

Pros: Raises some great questions, leaves the audience to answer the questions.

Cons: Some people find that reading the play is impossible. It just doesn't move quickly enough for them.

Review: Waiting for Godot is one of the greatest plays of all time. Many people find reading it drab and tiresome; but if you consider what it's saying, and what it's asking (also consider that it is really the first, and most famous, work classified as...

Pros: Great play, open ground for anyone's application of theory

Cons: Plot points may be missed by those unfamiliar with rudimentary existentialism (conservatives watch out)

Review: Much debate has spawned regarding who or what is "Godot" in Beckett's most famous work, which depicts two men (tinkers) waiting for the unseen personage to arrive while debating suicide and meeting a small number of characters, representing...

Pros: A wonderful book!

Cons: Can leave the layreader confused...

Review: Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" is a masterpiece of existentialism. It gives the audience all the questions, points in the direction of the answers, and lets the reader decide for himself what truth is.

The novel's two main characters,...

Pros: Thought provoking

Cons: play doesn't change and drags on

Review: I read this wonderful play for my AP Literature and Composition class. I read it for no other reason besides its numerical qualifications but after finishing the play, that reason has changed dramatically.

I took a look at the two other...

Pros: A good play

Cons: A bad read

Review: I'll go along with Edrinalinc4's review for the most part. There's been a lot of pretentious stuff written about Beckett in the past, about his "existential meaninglessness", blah, blah, blah. I've often wondered why, if life, according to...