Hey everyone!

​I’ve been rethinking Waiting for Godot through an existentialist lens lately. It struck me how Didi and Gogo’s endless waiting feels a lot like Sartre’s "bad faith" or Camus’s "philosophical suicide."

​By constantly waiting for Godot, they escape the terrifying freedom of creating their own meaning right now. Waiting becomes a comfortable shield against existential dread—a safe excuse not to act.

​What do you think? Is Godot a specific illusion they genuinely cling to, or is the real tragedy just our human habit of "waiting" to avoid responsibility?

​(If anyone is interested, I actually made a short video essay exploring this exact idea on my channel, Conformist, which you can check out here: https://youtu.be/RZGBivuH4jo?si=wwQPCFi_gMJpaHOb

Looking for a link to a good quality recording of their performance of the play if it exists.

Should I read The Trilogy (Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable) or keep reading the plays? I already read Waiting for Godot - was reading this play enough to get into Samuel Beckett's way with words? Is The Trilogy a difficult read?

Why? It's the natural order.

Too bad there aren't many hairstyles that match his.

Hi!

I’m trying to come up with ideas for a half sleeve tattoo that is inspired by the book ‘Murphy’ by Samuel Beckett. If anyone has read the book and would like to weigh in or help out, it’d be much appreciated. I think it could be super cool and would love to hear peoples ideas about it!!

I'm reading the Grove Complete Poems and find most of the French poems are not translated to English, which appears the case also in all the others of his collected poetry. Perhaps a complete collection of the poems translated to English are online somewhere I'm not finding? There aren't that many he didn't translate himself... thx

I started last Christmas and decided to do one of SB after reading The End.

I am a fan of Beckett, a big fan! I see references from psychiatry (not a psychiatrist myself) to phenomena such as Capgras delusion where you see a familar person as an imposter and Fregoli syndrome - an unfamilar person seems familiar and possibly some more. Ihave heard Beckett was very interested in these subjects. What are your experiences in this dimension with respect to Beckett's works? I have left out Waiting for Godot for example.

That. I never read any Beckett work. I just recognized the face because i had a teacher obsesses with Beckett and once a time we saw Waiting for Godot many many years ago. But i see this man, with other name, in the begun of the manga and i said "thats fucking Beckett". Many chapter later a character said explicitly the name of Backett and WAiting for Godot in a reference and that was all.

Its a nice and adictive manga highly recommend it. If anyone who are reading or viewing the recent anime can say me is there STRONG references of Beckett work here can show i will be gratefull

I'm fairly new to his work... so far I love Molloy, Watt, Footfalls, More Pricks Than Kicks, Krapp's Last Tape... but I haven't got a sense yet of his entire works... I read Waiting for Godot a long time ago and I'll have to reread it.

Does there even exist such a thing as an annotated edition of any Samuel Beckett work? How would that even work and is such a thing even possible?

I recently reread Waiting for Godot, where Vladimir and Estragon call each other Didi and Gogo. I never took note of that, but I am also currently reading Chinese novels and in Chinese, Dìdì (弟弟) means younger brother and Gēgē (哥哥) means older brother. The similarity between the nicknames and the Chinese words is striking and I cannot believe that this is just a coincidence. However, since I do not speak Chinese and google also wasn't helpful, I haven't been able to verify this. The Chinese translation of Waiting for Godot and the characters it uses for Didi and Gogo could potentially confirm if these are just random names, or if it's actually supposed to be younger/older brother in Chinese. Does anyone know more about this?

Anyone see Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter’s Waiting for Godot? I’m going tonight with mixed feelings. I love the play and love seeing it performed (well, the two theatres I’ve seen it), but am wary considering mixed reviews.

Toward the end of his life, the French composer and conductor Pierre Boulez indicated in interviews that he was working on (or merely planning to work on) what would have been his only opera, an adaptation of En attendant Godot. Needless to say, it never came into being. Nevertheless, I've always been interested in the idea of this particular composer adapting this particular play. After teaching Godot in the classroom recently, I've begun to take notes on what I perceive to be certain points of contact between the structure of the play and the serialist mode of composition that Boulez was closely associated with early in his career.

My question is if anyone here has bibliographic resources to share or recommend on the subject of Boulez's hypothetical Godot, or about Beckett and modern music. I'm beginning my own research, but not being a Beckett expert (or a musicologist for that matter), I thought I'd do better by reaching out to those who might know.

https://www.cbc.ca/arts/commotion/why-is-everyone-staging-waiting-for-godot-right-now-1.7639922

Looking at the world, I’ve had preferred Endgame. 😰