Description

Waiting for Godot is a 1953 play by Irish writer and playwright Samuel Beckett, in which the two main characters, Vladimir (Didi) and Estragon (Gogo), engage in a variety of discussions and encounters while awaiting the titular Godot, who never arrives. Waiting for Godot is Beckett's reworking of his own original French-language play En attendant Godot, and is subtitled "A tragicomedy in two acts." It is widely considered his finest work of literature and regarded by literary critics as "one of the most enigmatic plays of modern literature". In a public poll conducted by the British Royal National Theatre in the year 1998, Waiting for Godot was also voted as "the most significant English-language play of the 20th century."