Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot Act 1 (Part 1)

[Gizzy59508]

@IrelandsMostHated its absurd drama, its meant to be like this...

[RagedContinuum]

@IrelandsMostHated

yo mama

[RagedContinuum]

@IrelandsMostHated

you just don't understand it

biiiitch

[alexminassian]

I'm doing a section of this play for Drama class. I don't really understand Absurdist Theatre as well as I should, which is why this video is quite helpful. Even though this may not be exactly how Beckett intended the play to be performed, it is still very helpful.

Thanks for the upload!

[katoness]

Why is Godot always done in such a depressing way, its suppose to be a comedy. It should be performed in a humourous way by the actors. Not like the world is ending. Dull for the actors and the auidence.

[DHotDoll]

this brought back so much school days memories. I thought adult life had more to offer. But waiting for godot says it all. I love you, Samuel Beckett!

[wouterMC5000]

Can someone please,please,please explain me

WHAT IS SO GOOD ABOUT THIS STORY? NOTHING HAPPENS...

I can rather make a play about drying paint...

[notpudding]

@wouterMC5000

it's not the easiest play to grasp but that's the whole point..nothing happens..it sort of reflects what most people do in life..just wait for promised things to happen instead of making things happen..idk that is just the interpretation i have.

[AeolisticFury]

@wouterMC5000 You don't have to like it. But I do.

[iiznumba12]

@wouterMC5000 It's Absurdist mate. It ain't supposed to make sense. Nothing to be done.

[MsDotsu]

we were sopos to learn this modern tragidy at letretur Uni, i like it alot

we took great gatsby insted -.-

i like it how they had the sympol of hope its too true :c

[MynameisElliott]

Where's Gandalf?

[Tauts05]

the coment history is like part of the play

[MPeloquin1]

Thank you THOUSANDS for the great Beckett compilation! Beckett is a world treasure … a profound voice and searing vision.

[MPeloquin1]

Thank you Thousands for the great Becket compilation! A world treasure.

[deinarts]

Saw the movie. It's quite lively. Then saw this, heard Vladimir's opening line echoing soullessly. Laughed. Laughed. Laughed.

[g3g3ify]

1 min:?

3 min:??

5 min:???

7 min:?!?!?!?

9 min: ......WTF IS GOING ON HERE! MY DRAMA TEACHER SAID THIS WAS A GOOD PLAY BUT I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT THE FREAK IS GOING ON!!!!!!

[adamXcore]

@g3g3ify Your last three videos favorited are LMFAO's Party Rock Anthem, an anime video called Like Omg Baby, and another anime video called Love You Like a Love song. Don't worry. You'll never understand Beckett.

[g3g3ify]

@adamXcore Alright, I know I was exaggerating a bit, but I don't plan on understanding this anytime soon. I'm still in high school, and it is true that as of right now, I lack the knowlege to comprehend this. Oh, and since when do people with normal lives have time to LOOK AT OTHER PEOPLES HISTORY just to prove a point? I take no offense whatsoever and continue to watch whatever immature, stupid stuff I want.

[adamXcore]

@g3g3ify I read Beckett for the first time in high school and understood it perfectly. It really just comes down to how much you value your mind. Are you filling your mind with junk like hip-hop/rap, tv shows like The Jersey Shore, and books like Twilight? If you are, don't expect to ever understand Beckett. It's written on an intellectually advanced level and the junk you're consuming is retarding you, preventing you from understanding it. If, however, you're respecting your mind and reading

[JempyHuelSe]

@adamXcore how can you say "junk like hip-hop/rap" - I would agree that a lot of artist are completely superfluous and don't provide any values or messages, however, maybe 300 years ago, someone said the same about Mozart's music, and we now consider it as one of the most influential music ever. Don't try to be intellectual, because you're not, you're the typical kind of person that is against mainstream and has one great idea in their lives and thinks - no you probably don't ... you should read

[adamXcore]

@g3g3ify classic literature and intellectually stimulating books, and you still don't understand Beckett's, Waiting for Godot, I'll explain: Waiting for Godot is an existential play about two men, Vladimir and Estragon, who wait for a third character- a man named Godot- to arrive but never does. The play carries on with them busying themselves with mindless, banal small talk. The analogy Beckett was drawing here was that of man's existence. Man too, Beckett is saying, does this same thing every

[adamXcore]

@g3g3ify because he is condemned to an existence of meaninglessness. Because his life is ultimately absurd (see Jean-Paul Sartre's, Existentialism is a Humanism, and Albert Camus', The Myth of Sisyphus), nearly everything he does is equally as banal and empty of meaning as what Estragon and Vladimir do in the play. We, too, do things merely to pass the time. And that's all. Nothing, ultimately, is significant about our lives. We do things and then we die, with nothing to show of it. Our lives

[adamXcore]

@g3g3ify are trivial, pathetic, unaccounted for, and ultimately unnecessary. This is the plight of man- because he comes from nothing, he ultimately is nothing.

[g3g3ify]

@adamXcore Okay, okay. First of all, I don't watch Jersey Shore, and I don't obsess over the Twilight Saga. I didn't read the play either, and I put little to no effort into really understanding it. I didn't mean to offend anyone or anything, and thank you (very much) for explaining. The comment I had previously submitted was dramatized though. I put it out there because (let's face it) that's what everyone else was saying. But thanks anyway for explaining :)

[cooliokats]

@adamXcore I really like your views on the play! I think you explained this better than any website i visited. Thank you :)

[SatchmoSings]

I'm glad to be one of the people (in the minority, of course) that loathes this play and I just view it as a bunch of pseudo-intellectual blather; it's one, very big nothing.

[futurefighter2008]

@SatchmoSings

i'm glad that you find it 'one very big nothing'. ironically that is what the play is most known for.

[SatchmoSings]

@futurefighter2008 Lol, that doesn't quite explain whether you like it or not! ;)

On "Amazon" I really do get off reading the one-star reviews of it along with the comments that try to defend it . . ..

[sallymick27]

What Year?

[jayasaputra]

Best Play ever I see why Theater of Absurd was lied by ppl in d 2oth century especially waiting for Godot :)

[docicenogle]

Well if you like the story watch Beckett on film 2001. Not this one.

[ZakkCollins]

1.49-

[superpleiadian]

one of my first memories is Dow wis sai didi gogodit

past life anything to do with this?

[xPeReDuMeX]

i need to play in school this, i like it :D

[JessStarkidWalker]

I had to rread this play for school. It is the most boring play I have ever read in my short liefe.

[WildYoungThing]

@JessStarkidWalker it's because you don't understand it. The 'boring-ness' and 'sparseness' of it is absolute crucial to the meaning and is much more significent and emotive than lots of 'interesting' action.

[jmricks73]

So, it's the author's version. Since when is it a good idea for a playwright to direct his own play? It's boring and doesn't make use of the actors. Theatre is an actor's medium. This is all text and not choices connected to any kind of playability.

[jmricks73]

What a horrible version of what is usually a terrific play.

[angerock49]

@jmricks73 Well it's the author himself's version no ? So... ^^

[alexowain]

what does the tree mean?? / symbolize?

[jilloplo]

I... um... I'm confused.

[SubconsciousGatherer]

"People are bloody, ignorant apes."

So true, so true.

[avb182]

can this be anymore depressing?

[TheTemporaryTemp]

This play changed my life

[SubconsciousGatherer]

@TheTemporaryTemp I saw it live on Saturday night for the first time ever. How would you say it changed your life?

[TheTemporaryTemp]

@SubconsciousGatherer It was the first absurd play I ever read and it is the first surreal work I fell in love with. After discovering theater of the Absurd (through this play) I started looking into surreal art and comedy among other things. With time it totally re-wired the workings of my brain and I decipher everything much differently now. This process didn't really change my life, it changed me - which in turn probably changed the course of my life. And it all started with this play.

[supereldinho]

@TheTemporaryTemp Same here...

[TyJordanBassett]

@TheTemporaryTemp Do tell why.

[HADESandGentlemen]

What Charm! What Charisma!!

...

kill me now

[irenakolek]

in my opinion their act is too pasive.. reading that play just last night I imagined they were more "lively".. or maybe im wrong..:/

[iqfrenzy]

@irenakolek Yes, I envision them as more animated myself.

[puffin02]

I can only surmise that the point ot this play is that everything is pointless, so the play itself might as well be, too.

[stevesg92]

@puffin02 sure if you haven't the skill to analyze the play through literary criticism as it is supposed to be.

[samaraiball]

i've got an exam tomorrow regarding this play and so far this is total BULLSHIT!!

[rodiajr]

this version is amazing!!!

 thanks

[RyanJosephWilson]

You aren't ment to be funny or amazing it's absurdism aka the only point to live is dieing, this is bad ok 

[Bexaplex94]

A college near me did such a better job. They were funny and amazing. This...

[fypscott]

americans can't pull this off at all, unfortunately

[insainiac33]

@fypscott It's the voices. Far too nasal.

[TheEnglishHobo]

@insainiac33 Vladimir, maybe, I think Estragon is ok...

[Kaylaholic]

Please say you're joking.

[izzys66]

Amazing. These actors have so much energy! What a scene.