
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.
Drama · the Pro canon
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