Two dilapidated bums fill their days as painlessly as they can. They wait for Godot, a personage who will explain their interminable insignificance, or put their an end to it. They are resourceful, with quarrels and their dependence on one another, as children are. They pass the time "which would have passed anyway." A brutal man of means leads a weakling slave who does his bidding. Every day a child comes from the unknown Godot and evasively puts the big arrival off until tomorrow. It is a tragic view. Yet in performance, most of it is brilliant, bitter comedy.

Waiting for Godot was presented in the VLT's Stage Left space.

“Since Waiting for Godot has no simple meaning, one seizes on Mr. Beckett’s experience of two worlds to account for his style and point of view. The point of view suggests Sartre—bleak, dark, disgusted. The style suggests Joyce—pungent and fabulous. Put the two together and you have some notion of Mr. Beckett’s acrid cartoon of the story of mankind.”
Brooks Atkinson

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