- Waiting for Godot is an absurdest play by Samuel Beckett in which two characters, Vladimir and Estragon. They wait endlessly and in vain for the arrival of someone named Godot. They simply cannot remember much of anything and go through the same things each day. Beckett uses a ton of repetitive language in this play and to me, the characters become loveable. They continue to wait for Godot, who never shows.
- In Beckett’s, Play the curtain rises and there are tree grey funeral urns, arranged in a row facing the audience. They are three different characters. One a man, one his wife, and the third is his mistress. They characters go through their thoughts and stories of the affair in the happening. When the man tried to escape his marriage, the wife began to smell her off him, hired a detective and also threatened to kill herself. Play is riveting. The clip is literally mind blowing in my opinion, easily one of my favorite play clips I have ever seen.
- Not I is one of Beckett's most mesmerizing and disturbing pieces. There is a woman on stage alone, in the dark, and only described as "mouth", we discover that the woman is nearing seventy years of age, possibly even dying and has remained silent most of her life, since being thrust prematurely into the world from her mother's loveless womb. The language Beckett portrays is nothing short of intriguing. He uses a "buzzing" language, for her thoughts. Like many of Beckett's characters, Mouth's hysterical need to talk, keep talking defers the act of self-identification, the awareness that denotes "I" among the ruins of a fallen world.