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The original French text was composed between 9 October 1948 and 29 January 1949.[4] The premiere, directed by Roger Blin, was on 5 January 1953 at the Thtre de Babylone [fr], Paris. The English-language version premiered in London in 1955. In a poll conducted by the British Royal National Theatre in 1998/99, it was voted the "most significant English-language play of the 20th century".[5][6][7]

Beckett refrained from elaborating on the characters beyond what he had written in the play. He once recalled that when Sir Ralph Richardson "wanted the low-down on Pozzo, his home address and curriculum vitae, and seemed to make the forthcoming of this and similar information the condition of his condescending to illustrate the part of Vladimir ... I told him that all I knew about Pozzo was in the text, that if I had known more I would have put it in the text, and that was true also of the other characters."[9]

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Jean Martin, who originated the role of Lucky in Paris in 1953, spoke to a doctor named Marthe Gautier, who was working at the Piti-Salptrire Hospital. Martin asked if she knew of a physiological reason that would explain Lucky's voice as it was written in the text. Gautier suggested Parkinson's disease, which, she said, "begins with a trembling, which gets more and more noticeable, until later the patient can no longer speak without the voice shaking". Martin began incorporating this idea into his rehearsals.[36] Beckett and the director may not have been completely convinced, but they expressed no objections.[37] When Martin mentioned to the playwright that he was "playing Lucky as if he were suffering from Parkinson's", Beckett responded by saying "Yes, of course", and mentioning that his own mother had Parkinson's.[38]

Vladimir and Estragon are often played with Irish accents, as in the Beckett on Film project. This, some feel, is an inevitable consequence of Beckett's rhythms and phraseology, but it is not stipulated in the text. At any rate, they are not of English stock: at one point early in the play, Estragon mocks the English pronunciation of "calm" and has fun with "the story of the Englishman in the brothel".[72]

Like all of Beckett's translations, the English translation of Waiting for Godot is not simply a literal translation of En attendant Godot. "Small but significant differences separate the French and English text. Some, like Vladimir's inability to remember the farmer's name (Bonnelly[118]), show how the translation became more indefinite, attrition and loss of memory more pronounced."[119] A number of biographical details were removed, all adding to a general "vaguening"[120] of the text which he continued to trim for the rest of his life.

The English-language premiere was on 3 August 1955 at the Arts Theatre, London, directed by the 24-year-old Peter Hall. During an early rehearsal Hall told the cast "I haven't really the foggiest idea what some of it means ... But if we stop and discuss every line we'll never open."[121] Again, the printed version preceded it (New York: Grove Press, 1954) but Faber's "mutilated" edition did not materialise until 1956. A "corrected" edition was subsequently produced in 1965. "The most accurate text is in Theatrical Notebooks I, (Ed.) Dougald McMillan and James Knowlson (Faber and Grove, 1993). It is based on Beckett's revisions for his Schiller-Theater production (1975) and the London San Quentin Drama Workshop, based on the Schiller production but revised further at the Riverside Studios (March 1984)."[122]

Beckett received numerous requests to adapt Waiting for Godot for film and television.[195] The author, however, resisted these offers, except for occasional approval out of friendship or sympathy for the person making the request. This was the case when he agreed to some televised productions in his lifetime (including a 1961 American telecast with Zero Mostel as Estragon and Burgess Meredith as Vladimir that New York Times theatre critic Alvin Klein describes as having "left critics bewildered and is now a classic").[121] When Keep Films made Beckett an offer to film an adaptation in which Peter O'Toole would feature, Beckett tersely told his French publisher to advise them: "I do not want a film of Godot."[196] The BBC broadcast a television production of Waiting for Godot on 26 June 1961 (see "Production history - 1950s to 1969 - UK") above, a version for radio having already been transmitted on 25 April 1960. Beckett watched the programme with a few close friends in Peter Woodthorpe's Chelsea flat. He was unhappy with what he saw. "My play", he said, "wasn't written for this box. My play was written for small men locked in a big space. Here you're all too big for the place."[197] One analysis argued that Beckett's opposition to alterations and creative adaptations stem from his abiding concern with audience reaction rather than proprietary rights over a text being performed.[198]

A web series adaptation titled While Waiting for Godot was also produced at New York University in 2013, setting the story among the modern-day New York homeless. Directed by Rudi Azank, the English script was based on Beckett's original French manuscript of En attendant Godot (the new title being an alternate translation of the French) prior to censorship from British publishing houses in the 1950s, as well as adaptation to the stage. Season 1 of the web series won Best Cinematography at the 2014 Rome Web Awards. Season 2 was released in Spring 2014 on the show's official website whilewaitingforgodot.com.[200]

Following its positive reception at the April Staging Beckett Conference, Matthew McFrederick, Anna McMullan and Mark Nixon curated an exhibition on "Waiting For Godot at 60" at the Festival. The exhibition contains materials relating to a wide range of productions of Waiting for Godot staged across the UK, Ireland and international platforms. These include productions such as premieres of Godot in Paris (Thtre de Babylone, 1953), Berlin (Schlosspark, 1953), London (Arts, 1955) and Dublin (Pike, 1955), as well as later productions at the Nottingham Playhouse with Peter O'Toole (in 1971), the Gate Theatre in Dublin (from 1988-2008) directed by Walter Asmus, and more recent performances such as the Theatre Royal Haymarket (in 2009). In what we believe may be an Irish premiere, Samuel Beckett's Production Notebook 2 and Warten auf Godot text for his 1975 Schiller Theater Berlin performance are also on display. Furthermore, the exhibition links itself to Beckett's connections with Enniskillen, as it contains programmes and reviews for performances of Waiting for Godot at Portora Royal School - the school Beckett attended from 1920-1923.

As so often in Beckett's works, though,the reference is more complex than an amnesiac recollection of a text once read, foranother paradox and another 'old Greek' are being evoked. One of Zeno's followers,Eubulides of Miletus, established the sorites (or heap) paradox in which heproposed that there can be no such thing as a heap of sand, since one grain does not makea heap and adding one grain is never enough to convert a non-heap into a heap. The problemof Beckett's dramatic use of the heap has exercised many critics. Hugh Kenner offers achallenging new avenue to be explored when he proposes another source: 'Sextus Empiricusthe Pyrrhonist used just this example [the heap] to show that the simplest words - wordslike "heap" - were in fact empty of meaning. It is like asking when a play may besaid to have had a "run". Beckett's fascination with paradoxes is grounded in hisconviction that we can (partially) know only ephemeral moments and that, in a world inwhich there is no God, we consequently look for 'logical' explanations which arethemselves fictions and manipulations of reality; even the exact science of mathematicsbecomes another series of texts to be read with suspicion.

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15. Dezember 2023. Samuel Beckett breitet in seinen Theatertexten die Absurditt des Seins vor uns aus. Godot wird nicht kommen, obwohl alle auf ihn warten. Claus Peymann inszeniert den Klassiker in Wien.

15. Dezember 2023. Was soll man sagen? Die Zeiten, in denen wir heute und wohl noch fr lange Zeit leben, sind wie gemacht fr das Absurde Theater, und fr "Warten auf Godot" erst recht. Wie gelhmt warten wir darauf, dass uns endlich jemand retten mge vor den am Horizont grollenden Klimakatastrophen, vor der rechten Gefahr aus Nord und Ost und West und Sd, vor den Massenmrdern und Menschenrechtsverbrechern, vor der nchsten Stromrechnung, ach, vor dem rchelnden und hustenden Sitznachbarn hinter uns im Theater. Hustet und rchelt, whrend vorne auf der Bhne Estragon und Wladimir auf Godot warten, auf dass er sie rette vor der unertrglichen Sinnlosigkeit ihres Daseins, der Gewalt auf der Strae, den leise flsternden "Millionen Toten", die Menschlichkeit von ihnen einfordern und vielleicht sogar so etwas wie eine Haltung.

Some lovely first editions of Samuel Beckett's theatrical notebooks as issued by Faber and Faber, each volume in its unclipped dust wrapper and housed in the original cardboard slipcases. The first edition, first impressions of Faber and Faber's series of the theatrical notebooks of Samuel Beckett, under general editorship of James Knowlson. The present collection is comprised of volumes I-III. A series illustrative of how Beckett simplified, shaped, and refined his plays to reach a good dramatical function, offering a remarkable record of the author's own involvement in the staging of his texts.The Schiller notebook also contains some of the most explicit analysis by Beckett of his own work.Illustrated with facsimile reproductions of the notebooks in text. Each volume complete with its unclipped dust wrapper and housed in its original cardboard box.Volume I:Waiting for Godot, edited with an introduction and notes by Dougald McMillan and James Knowlson. With the production notebook forWarten auf Godot at the Schiller-Theatre in Berlin, March 1975.Volume II:Endgame, edited with an introduction and notes by S. E. Gontarski. Beckett directed two productions of Endgame,one with the Schiller Theatre Company in Berlin 1967, and the second with the San Quentin Drama Workshop in 1980. The notes included in this volume are for both productions.Volume III:Krapp's Last Tape, with a revised text incorporating many of the changes Beckett made in 1969 Schiller production, as well as subsequent changes in later productions. Edited, with an introduction and notes by James Knowlson. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally lovely. The dust wrapper is unclipped and excellent with only minor shelf wear. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean. Illustrated with facsimile reproductions of the notebooks in text. Fine. Seller Inventory # 803A40 17dc91bb1f