Turning to Estragon.) So there you are again. All my life I’ve tried to put it from me, saying, Vladimir, be reasonable, you haven’t yet tried everything. I’m beginning to come round to that opinion. VLADIMIR: (advancing with short, stiff strides, legs wide apart) He gives up, exhausted, rests, tries again. The non-story of two tramps at loose ends in a landscape barren of all but a single tree, amusing or distracting themselves from oppressive boredom while they wait for a mysterious figure who never arrives, the play became the ur-text for theatrical innovation and existential thought in the latter half of 20th century.” -Christopher Isherwood, The New York TimesĮstragon, sitting on a low mound, is trying to take off his boot. “ among the most studied, monographed, celebrated and sent-up works of modern art, and perhaps as influential as any from the last century. “Reading Beckett for the first time is an experience like no other in modern literature.” -Paul Auster
make a poet green with envy.” -Stephen Spender “One of the most noble and moving plays of our generation, a threnody of hope deceived and deferred but never extinguished a play suffused with tenderness for the whole human perplexity with phrases that come like a sharp stab of beauty and pain.” - The Times (London) “One of the true masterpieces of the century.” -Clive Barnes, The New York Times
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