Waiting for Godot

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Summary: Connecting the past with the future
Review: Just a quick note for any of you educators who are thinking about assigning this great piece of literature that explores the human experience. Christopher Guest's recent movie, Waiting For Guffman, is a fine companion piece to Beckett's play. Guest-of Spinal Tap fame and fortune-does an excellent parody based on the same context of this play that exposes the ridiculous stereotypes developed by American culture.

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Summary: Where is Godot??? Just WHO is Godot??
Review: This wonderful play by Beckett is a transfixing masterpiece detailing the post-WWII angst of Europe. Part of the "Theater of the Absurd" movement, Beckett shows through WAITING FOR GODOT the despair and hopelessness in a world gone strange. The absurd world depicted in the play is sparse, bleak, but entrancing and hypnotic. The characters Vladimir and Estragon seem to be repeating themselves, in a looping, alternate universe. It seems as if they are playing out their same, weird world over and over again, waiting for Godot, who Beckett claims, "Is not God." Who is Godot, then? I have deduced, personally, that Godot is a "happy ending," which everyone wants in their lives. The play is depressing, but it is brilliance that can only be achieved through this Beckett depression.

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Summary: Super
Review: People might want to research what was going on when Waiting for Godet was written. It might change the thoughts and opinions of your reading. This play was written in 1954 in France. Here we have just had a major war, WWII. There is despair every where. People began to question their excistence. What is the point of living? Why are we here? Everyone has tasted death and its not pretty. You have people dying for religion, race, and sex. Children are being starved and killed. Gogo and Didi represent the people. How people are trying to deal with life. They talk and talk for hours but, they never do anything they want to do, they never leave one another. They have no hope its all in the hands of someone else. Sound familar. Time is frozen, memories are lost, and the road is none excistent. These men represent a hell of alot. There is a reason for this play. Its not just conversation. If you know the history during the time frame it was written in you will get so much more from this play. It can be a wonderful experiance, painful yes, but, we need all the life experiance we can get and I know that I will never be able to say I hurt as bad as Didi, Gogo, Lucky, and Pozzo.

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Summary: Waiting for Dogot?
Review: This is another boonie dog review by Wolfie and Kansas. The play "Waiting for Godot", allegedly by the human playwright Samuel Beckett, fills a major void in the literary canon.

Some humans find this play perplexing. To us dogs, much of the hidden meaning of "Waiting for Godot" is as clear as the odor of day-old road kill. The lead characters, Didi and Gogo, laze around by the side of a country road, waiting for whatever, yipping and yapping about whatever comes to mind, gnawing on chicken bones, and sniffing boots. Didi and Gogo are boonie dogs, like us! The enslaved character Lucky is a domestic "pet", housebroken and "fixed" (i.e., broken). Pozzo is a parody of a not atypical pompous human self-proclaimed "pet owner". The remaining character, the boy, may represent the quintessential, but often somewhat clueless, noncanine animal companion of primate derivation, Lassie's Timmy. The sole prop in the play's scenery, a tree, has obvious uses and significance for canines.

Godot could be God, or an alpha mail who will lead a raid on a restaurant dumpster, a bitch in heat, a human bearing Milk Bones, or a noisy truck to be chased. Godot represents all of the things that we wait for when we hang out by the roadside.

Once the reader understands the true meaning of "Waiting for Godot", it is clear that this play was written by a dog. Just as women used to publish under male pseudonyms, and blacklisted screenwriters used fronts, so the anonymous canine who wrote this play had to put a human playwright's name on his or her work in order to have it staged and accepted. We believe that plays should be seen, heard and smelled, rather than read. However, until "Waiting for Godot" is properly staged with a canine cast, it can perhaps best be enjoyed by reading the script.

Dogs have already produced classic poetry, such as Skipper's "Complacencies of the Fenced Yard", published in "Unleashed: Poems by Writers' Dogs". Now we know a dog has written "Waiting for Godot", a classic play. This only heightens our aniticipation as we await the coming of the great canine novel.

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Summary: Of a class which forces one to review their own existence!!
Review: Waiting For Godot, is one of the most questinable play's which has ever been written. I use the word play simply for lack of a better word. Nothing happen's in this play, no one comes-especially not Godot but by this Beckett has created in one word-excellence. By the sheer fact that nothing happens, we are forced to consider the question of our existence as well as that of Vladimir's and Estragon's. Beckett takes us on a new wave of understanding. He, for a brief time, distracts us from our egotistical and selfish feelings so that we may pose ourselves with a greater question...Who we are and why were here? After all, are not we all searching for Godot??

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Summary: This book is somewhat boring, yet attractive in the end.
Review: I find this book pointless. It describes the existence in life, but the character Godot never shows up in Vladimirs and Estragons life. They wait for someone who never comes their way. Why is that? Somehow, this book gives meaning to being someone in life instead of being in constant misery and isolation

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Summary: bizarrly insightful
Review: This book was delightful. It gave an insightful view of human nature with its extreme and sometimes frustratingly indecisive, simple and forgetful characters. At times, it seems almost to be in the style of Abbot and Costello's "Who's on First" routine. I recommend this play

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Summary: Nothing Ever Happens. . .
Review: One of the most striking plays written in the 20th century, Samuel Beckett's, "Waiting for Godot," is a must read for any serious student of theater, lover of the theater of the absurd, or those interested in high thought as seen through the eyes of a couple of nobodys.

An absurd play, it is stirring, chilling and unreprentively satirical. The characters even poke fun at the play that they are in as one of the states that, "nothing ever happens," and he is right. Stark and empty, the play has an air of waiting for something to happen. Not only are the main characters, Didi and Gogo (Vladimir and Estragon), waiting for something monumental, but so are the readers.

The potential bleakness of the world that we live in comes to a head in this play where every action hinges on the appearance of Godot, who strikes a resemblence (acording to the players) to God himself.

Beckett was quoted as saying that if he had meant, "God," he would have said "God." Godot, is ambiguous and powerful; as is the play that carries his name.

An excellent, though thick read. The play is dark, and by no means uplifting. By this point in time, "Waiting for Godot," should have been read by everyone. This piece is the center of the theater of the absurd movement, and has been quoted, and been alluted to more often then any play since its writing. It is perhaps only less well read than, "Hamlet," and "Private Lives," by Shakespeare and Coward, respectively.

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Summary: What is there to get from Waiting for Godot
Review: I thought the play beautifully expressed in laconic dialogue how some individuals deny reality, the human condition, and mortality by distracting themselves with meaningless activies. I don't know if Beckett saw life as meaningless. The mystery of life makes all of us story tellers. It's our responsiblity to find a story, activity, purpose, gift, belief that gives our lives fullness as opposed to emptyness.

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Summary: Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Review: If you thought reading books was fun,then you've never seen this dull book.This is a real tragedy,alright-the tragedy is the book was written and plublished.You wade through pages of meaningless drudgery,trying desperately to find ANYTHING exciting.You keep reading,hoping and praying it will get better.But no.It just keeps getting worse with every sentence.I finally gave an utter scream from frustration and set fire to this dud,mentally kicking myself for wasting money on it.If you want an actaul BOOK,read Charles Dickens or Mark Twain instead.