Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (plays not included). Pages: 93. Chapters: Waiting for Godot, Act Without Words I, Play, Breath, Krapp's Last Tape, All That Fall, Embers, Happy Days, Rough for Radio II, Eh Joe, Quad, What Where, Footfalls, Words and Music, Cascando, From an Abandoned Work, Ghost Trio, Ohio Impromptu, Rockaby, ... but the clouds ..., The Old Tune, Come and Go, Catastrophe, Not I, A Piece of Monologue, That Time, Rough for Theatre II, Act Without Words II, Nacht und Traume, Endgame, Eleutheria. Excerpt: Waiting for Godot ( -oh) is an absurdist play by Samuel Beckett, in which two characters, Vladimir and Estragon, wait endlessly and in vain for someone named Godot to arrive. Godot's absence, as well as numerous other aspects of the play, have led to many different interpretations since the play's premiere. It was voted "the most significant English language play of the 20th century." Waiting for Godot is Beckett's translation of his own original French version, En attendant Godot, and is subtitled (in English only) "a tragicomedy in two acts." The original French text was composed between 9 October 1948 and 29 January 1949. The premiere was on 5 January 1953 in the Theatre de Babylone, Paris. The production was directed by Roger Blin, who also played the role of Pozzo. Waiting for Godot follows two days in the lives of a pair of men who divert themselves while they wait expectantly and in vain for someone named Godot to arrive. They claim him as an acquaintance but in fact hardly know him, admitting that they would not recognise him were they to see him. To occupy themselves, they eat, sleep, converse, argue, sing, play games, exercise, swap hats, and contemplate suicide - anything "to hold the terrible silence at bay." The play opens with the character Estragon struggling to remove his boot from his foot. Estragon eventually gives up, ...