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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
