Latest reviews in Plays »

Sixty Years On... We're Still Waiting

Advantages: Thought provoking - A very simplistic notion, usually disregarded.
Disadvantages: Highlights the human condition - hardly uplifting.

...- Pozzo & Lucky III - Boy - - - Sixty years ago this month it was the 'Waiting for Godot's' premiere We are all waiting for the inevitable, albeit I guess you've got to do something pro-active while you w ...

1st2thebar 16.01.2013 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful
Review of Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett

Would you read it again?

Story

Characters

Readability

Waiting for Whom?

Advantages: Applicable to a modern audience
Disadvantages: Takes a lot of studying to truly understand it

*Original Thoughts* Admittedly, when I was first told we were to study this play in drama, I was a little apprehensive. I had loosely heard of Beckett - his works being associated with little action and long synonymous dialect. Obviously not somethin ...

tashat 30.05.2005 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful
Review of Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett

Would you read it again?

Story

Characters

Readability

nothing comes out of no thing

Advantages: excellent mindcatcher
Disadvantages: none

With modern times come the distortion of the old believes where everything was held supreme from man to god to animals. My love for this new existentialist literature make me read these plays and novels again and again. I can't stop myself as these plays ...

sandy.imy 02.02.2009 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful
Review of Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett

Would you read it again?

Story

Characters

Readability

Waiting for a good available production of this

Advantages: Fascinating, beautifully comical, unpatronising, complete yet not satisfying
Disadvantages: Probably boring to some due to lack of real action

I first discovered this play when I was 15. I study Drama at school and found the bit of the play we acted really amusing (if completely random) so I went out and bought it. Seen as a whole, it's not so much random as life-like, in an obscure and worry ...

punkdizzylaa 30.03.2003 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful
Review of Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett

Would you read it again?

Story

Characters

Readability

Waiting And Waiting

Advantages: Original, funny and interesting
Disadvantages: Not everyone's cup of tea

Samuel Beckett has been a great influence to 20th Century theatre. In the 1950's he invented a new kind of play - absurd. Now many of you may read this play and think that it is the biggest lot of rubbish, but as I always say - a play is meant to be se ...

Kozinski 23.12.2000 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful
Review of Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett

Would you read it again?

Story

Characters

Readability