History Theatre / WaitingForGodot

-->'''Estragon''': You see, I feel worse when I'm with you. I feel better alone too.\\

** The 2009/2010 Berliner Ensemble performance had Didi and Gogo getting into discussions with the prompt. It was quite subdued and casual, and the actors were so in tune with each other it didn't seem at all disrespectful towards Beckett. Players for this play are most preferably from Indian origin.

* SuicideAsComedy: Vladimir and Estragon wan to hang themselves to pass the time.

* UrExample: For the BritCom format--a couple of losers in a bizarre situation have their lives disrupted by a couple of even crazier characters.

A famously surreal "tragicomedy" by Creator/SamuelBeckett. Probably the best known example of the [[{{Absurdism}} Theatre of the Absurd]]. The story concerns [[ThoseTwoGuys these two guys]], Vladimir and Estragon (Didi and Gogo for short), who spend most of their time sitting by a lonely road, waiting for someone named Godot, who never comes. They have main cast members survived (although Rosette still died much younger than she deserved, leaving Chrono to live on without her. So like I said: not completely happy.)

Or did he live on without her? Since Chrono had disappeared, never seen again in the years before Ros several brief but intense encounters with an UpperClassTwit named Pozzo and his servant, Lucky. In the course of the play, they wonder where Godot is, eat carrots, contemplate suicide, wonder where Godot is, discuss the Gospels, share dirty jokes, [[RuleOfThree wonder where Godot is]], exchange hats, and gradually succumb to existential angst and ennui.

* HypocriticalHumour: At one point in the second act, Vladimir tells Estragon that they should stop discussing things and just act. It takes him half a page of dialogue to say this.

A famously surreal "tragicomedy" by Creator/SamuelBeckett. Probably the best known example of the [[{{Absurdism}} Theatre of the Absurd]]. The story concerns [[ThoseTwoGuys these two guys]], Vladimir and Estragon (Didi and Gogo for short), who spend most of their time sitting by a lonely road, waiting for someone named Godot, who never comes. They have several brief but intense encounters with an UpperClassTwit named Pozzo and his servant, Lucky. In the course of the play, they wonder where Godot is, eat carrots, contemplate suicide, wonder where Godot is, discuss the Gospels, share dirty jokes, [[RuleOfThree wonder where Godot is]], exchange hats, and gradually succumb to existential angst and ennui.

* SpiritualSuccessor: ''Series/{{Bottom}}'', amazingly (particularly from their West End production of it). It features Rik Mayall, Ade Edmondson and Christopher Ryan, who played (respectively) Rick, Vyvian and Mike in TheYoungOnes. Go figure! Further screwed around with by the early '90s production with Rick and Ade... and Christopher playing Lucky!

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Nobody finds instant nightfall out of the ordinary. Vladimir is amazed to see the tree has bloomed between acts, while Estragon is not.

->'''Estragon:''' Well, shall we go?\\
'''Vladimir:''' Yes, let's go.\\
''(They do not move.)''

!!Contains examples of:

* CrapsackWorld
* DestructiveRomance[=/=]WithFriendsLikeThese: Estragon thinks they're this. He often says they should break up, but never takes any action too actually do so.

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin:
-->'''Vladimir''': How's the carrot?\\
'''Estragon''': It's a carrot.

** The bowler hats that Vladimir and Estragon wear are a ShoutOut to Creator/LaurelAndHardy. (Beckett loved black and white comedy.)

* DownerEnding: If you even consider it an ending.

* NoEnding

* WhatNowEnding: Godot never shows up, but Vladimir and Estragon can't bring themselves to leave.

* MindScrew: Try to watch it (or reading it) and not come out confused.

** The bowler hats that Vladimir and Estragon wear are a ShoutOut to Creator/LaurelAndHardy (Beckett loved black and white comedy).

* ArcWords: "Let's go." "We can't." "Why not?" "We're waiting for Godot."

* MoodWhiplash: A guy takes off his belt to hang himself - and his trousers fall down.
* MotorMouth: Lucky...[[TheQuietOne when he bothers to talk]].

* TheQuietOne: Lucky...until you [[MotorMouth tell him to think]].

* UrExample: For the BritCom format -- a couple of losers in a bizarre situation have their lives disrupted by a couple of even crazier characters.

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: "How's the carrot?" "It's a carrot."

* UrExample: For the BritCom format - a couple of losers in a bizarre situation have their lives disrupted by a couple of even crazier characters.

Inspired, among other things, ''RosencrantzAndGuildensternAreDead'', and (surprisingly) ''Series/{{Bottom}}''. Has no relation to [[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney a certain coffee-loving prosecutor]]. [[ShoutOut/AceAttorney Maybe.]]

* SpiritualSuccessor: ''{{Bottom}}'', amazingly (particularly from their West End production of it.) It features Rik Mayall, Ade Edmondson and Christopher Ryan, who played (respectively) Rick, Vyvian and Mike in TheYoungOnes. Go figure!
** Further screwed around with by the early 90's production with Rick and Ade... and Christopher playing Lucky!

-->'''Estragon:''' Let's go.
-->'''Vladimir:''' We can't.
-->'''Estragon:''' Why not?
-->'''Vladimir:''' We're waiting for Godot.

Inspired, among other things, ''RosencrantzAndGuildensternAreDead'', and (surprisingly) ''{{Bottom}}''. Has no relation to [[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney a certain coffee-loving prosecutor]]. [[ShoutOut/AceAttorney Maybe.]]

** Pozzo makes a reference to Vladimir and Estragon being timid and standing in "fear and trembling", the name of a book by philosopher Søren Kierkegaard.
*** The phrase itself comes for The Analects Of {{Confucius}}, meaning the attitude one is to take when summoned before the emperor.

* BreakingTheFourthWall: At one point, the play calls for Estragon to try and escape from an unseen mob. Vladimir recommends he run in front of them (i.e. into the auditorium). Estragon refuses and Vladimir looks out into the auditorium and says "Well, I can understand that."

* TheGhost: Godot. The Boy's brother to a lesser extent.

* {{Improv}}: Most performances include at least ''some'', even if it's only physical comedy.

A famously surreal "tragicomedy" by Samuel Beckett. Probably the best known example of the [[{{Absurdism}} Theatre of the Absurd]]. The story concerns [[ThoseTwoGuys these two guys]], Vladimir and Estragon (Didi and Gogo for short), who spend most of their time sitting by a lonely road, waiting for someone named Godot, who never comes. They have several brief but intense encounters with an UpperClassTwit named Pozzo and his servant, Lucky. In the course of the play, they wonder where Godot is, eat carrots, contemplate suicide, wonder where Godot is, discuss the Gospels, share dirty jokes, [[RuleOfThree wonder where Godot is]], exchange hats, and gradually succumb to existential angst and ennui.

* TheGhost: Godot.

* SeinfeldianConversation: Most of what Vladimir and Estragon discuss, as well as Lucky's "think".