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Waiting for Godot, an absurd play written by Samuel Beckett, begins on a barren road by a lifeless tree. These men, Validimir and Estragon (Didi and Gogo), are often characterized as "tramps," and we soon see that the world of this play is operating without its own set of rules--where nothing happens, nothing is certain, and there's never anything to do. Quite the contrary!

Throughout Waiting for Godot, the audience may encounter religious, philosophical, classical, psychoanalytical and biographical – especially wartime – references. There are ritualistic aspects and elements taken directly from vaudeville, and there is a danger in making more of these than what they are: that is, merely structural conveniences, avatars into which the writer places his fictional characters. The play "exploits several archetypal forms and situations, all of which lend themselves to both comedy and pathos." 

It is a game, everything is a game. When all four of them are lying on the ground, that cannot be handled naturalistically. That has got to be done artificially, balletically. Otherwise everything becomes an imitation, an imitation of reality [...]. It should become clear and transparent, not dry. It is a game in order to survive.

 

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