![]() Written during the winter of 1948–49, it would take Samuel Beckett four years to get it produced. Two tramps in bowler hats, a desolate country road, a single bare tree-the iconic images of a radically new modern drama confronted the audience at the Théâtre de Babylone in Paris on January 5, 1953, at the premiere of En attendant Godot ( Waiting for Godot ). Martin Esslin, The Theatre of the Absurd It is open to philosophical, religious, and psychological interpretations, yet above all it is a poem on time, evanescence, and the mysteriousness of existence, the paradox of change and stability, necessity and absurdity. It is the peculiar richness of a play like Waiting for Godot that it opens vistas on so many different perspectives. Analysis of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot ![]()
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