Customer Reviews
Wait - By: Cameron Forbes, 27 Nov 2008 
I loved Waiting for Godot. A classic of Dialogue Theatre. People need to realise that even though it seems as if nothing is happening, it really is. They are waiting for something, & everyone knows what happens when you wait for so long, when it comes it will be a disapointment. Whether they are Waiting for God. In the days after WW11 when people started to really question whether there was a God & if there was, why didnt he stop the war? A brilliant example of the Absurdist theatre that was starting to rise or the Anti Theatre or the Search for ones Self, the search for purpose. A Fantastic play
Seek and ye shall find - By: wacrompton, 29 Aug 2008 
When this play was first performedin London, Harold Hobson, drama critic of The Sunday Times said it was 'a conversational necessity'.
Being a mere child at the time I though this meant it was good. I sat through it with my girl-friend, & it seemed to me to be complete gibberish. What does it mean? she asked. I'll tell you at the end of the performance, I replied, hoping for a denoument. I couldn't tell her, because to me it was meaningless. How many critics here tell you what it means?
Last year, aged 70 & professor of literature, I saw it againin a lauded production at the Barbican. I sat through the first half becoming more & more angry. Becket, I thought, is making fools of us all. At the Interval I walked out, & didn't come back. The play's message is simple: Most of us believein God. We wait to eventually meet him. But there is no God. And we are wasting our time. Shakespeare said it so much more briefly & poeticallyin Macbeth. Life 'is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound & fury, signifying nothing.' Waiting for Godot signifies nothing. If you search for meaning I'm sure you'll find it. If you take the play at its face value, it's nonsense. Twice.
Stark and bewildering - By: Blaveta, 13 Feb 2008 
I read this play more than ten years ago for a coursein contemporary drama. At first I was completely lost, considered the dialogue pointless, & found it incredibly boring. However, following a visit to The Gate Theatrein Dublin, my opinion of the play changed entirely - the dialogue's pointlessness made sense finally, the existentialism of the play became comprehensible, not to mention the subtle dark humour. I started to see the brilliance of the play - if we are bored, lost, bewildered, uncertain, unhappy, & at the same time, find humourin this, then the play has achieved its purpose (as I see it). In other words, it reflects the condition of human life as Beckett chose to describe it, & not only this, it succeedsin drawing us deeply into his description & invites us, as reluctant as we may be, to live it through our reading. A brilliant, if rather discomforting reflection on the pain, whispers of humour & ultimate meaninglessness of human life.
The Emperor's not wearing any clothes... - By: D. Buttar, 16 Sep 2007 Like the godawful works of Pinter that followed, Beckett's "Waiting For Godot" is a masterworkin the field of pretentious garbage. This play is neither funny nor entertaining; the ludicrous dialogue frustrates, the characters try their hardest to prove themselves wholly unreal, and, as that famous review quoted from the lines of the play itself, "nothing happens."
Yet today "Godot" is hailed as a masterpiece of modern drama owing to its apparently being a well of deep hidden meaning & symbolism. When one looks at a blank wall for long enough blotches & other irregularities gradually become noticeable to the eye; hell, some might even claim to see a facein said blotches. But let's be honest, it's just a blank wall. Similarly, "Godot" is a wholly unsatisfying waste of an hour & a half, saved by a horrifyingly large number of people's determination to see clothes on the Emperor when really there are none.
It will definitely come tomorrow - By: Dr. Nicholas P. G. Davies, 11 Nov 2006 I have always been tempted to write the sequel, "The arrival of Godot"
However like Fermat's last theorem I fear the world is unlikely ever to see this masterpiece. Godot is a very naughty boy who refuses to comein on time. And at his age (at least 53) he should know better.
Get ready for the telling off of all time when he does turn up!
This is a great play, mostly for what it does not say, rather than what it does.
