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Article: The globalization of Beckett's Godot.
- Article from:
- Comparative Drama
- Article date:
- June 22, 2003
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When, in the second act of Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett's landmark play that premiered in Paris in 1953, Didi complains to his sidekick about not wasting any more time in "idle discourse," he delivers a stage speech rich in the implications for this work's range and accessibility:
Let us do something, while we have the chance! It is not every day
that we are needed. Not indeed that we are personally needed. Others
would meet the case equally well, if not better. To all mankind they
were addressed, those cries for help still ringing in our ears! But
at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we
like it or not. Let us ...