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Article: Godot only knows; ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.(Features)
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- September 4, 2009
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Byline: Compiled by Charles Legge
QUESTION
Who was the Godot that Vladimir and Estragon were waiting for in the play of that name?
SAMUEL Beckett's surrealist masterpiece has stimulated debate since it was first staged in the Theatre de Babylone in Paris. It had its first outing in Dublin and London two years later.
The setting for the play is simple, a country road with a tree. The two characters, Vladimir and Estragon, spend most of the play sitting by the roadside musing on the mysteries of life, waiting for Godot to turn up.
Most audiences take the two for tramps, but Beckett himself said that he could not categorise the ...