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Cover of Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

Waiting for Godot

Samuel Beckett · 1953

Two tramps wait by a tree for someone who never arrives. Nothing happens, twice. Beckett stripped theater down to its skeleton and found something funny and terrifying underneath. The play baffled audiences in 1953 and still gets performed constantly, which tells you everything.

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