"Waiting for Godot" by Samuel Beckett - Act 1 Lucky's Scene

[GhostRoadCompany]

Anyone in L.A. in March and April should see the CTG production with Alan Mandell (see here brilliantly as Lucky) playing Estragon! And Lucky will be played by the wonderful Hugo Armstrong, a former Ghost Road Company ensemble member and dear friend. We can't wait to see Alan and we can't wait to see what Hugo does with this speech!

[supergamerboy486]

cream gravy

[babablowfish]

Wow! A truly great performance of an amazing monologue.

[AndaSaltelechi]

this is music...

[AndaSaltelechi]

this is music...

[gravityking]

How is it possible for anyone to endure this to its conclusion. Such drek.

[DeboMalphet]

This is an incredible performance of an exceedingly difficult speech. As aspiring actors we have so much to learn from this man

[SaMuRaI009200]

I think it is one of the most boring thing ever...and staying on YouTube wasting so much time is killing me :z my teacher wants me to look at this I'm forced to do it! holy crap!

[SatchmoSings]

@SaMuRaI009200 At least you didn't have to sit through some shitty kinescope version with the Commie-blacklisted Zero Mostel in it, all to more make the point of the "political correctness" of this utter garbage.

[seufulano]

Wonderful! 

[ZOGGYDOGGY]

Listen to the crazed slave of sadistic masters. Reason pops through every once in a while.

[Vickimareee]

just amazing.

[derman077]

For reasons unknown but time will tell.

[wittyworldlee]

what scene would this be in? or would it only be act 1

[BJ219]

....wut

[yeahithasahemi]

bravo



[flashlaugher]

great inspiration for my theatre group!

[officialnut]

Oh, my brains. They have turned to mush and are pouring out of my ears.

[wittyworldlee]

the way he twitches n moves his body scares me i dont know why

[makemeateeshirt]

the original rapper...~

Eminem...eat yer heart out...it's already written

[makemeateeshirt]

the original rapper...~

[xxktdarcyxx]

i want it 

[GEC833]

this is unbelievable! it gives me shivers! I saw Ronald Pickup do this a year ago in London with Ian McEllen, Patrick Stewart and Simon Callow! They were sensational!

[waldrop32]

What did he say? Too fast... but I am impressed at his acting.

[MegaElizabethv]

"the  splendidly mad Irishman"

[TheIndieMod]

I saw Brendan O'Hea perform this a couple of weeks ago, it was the most amazing piece of theatre I have ever seen. He was quite gentle with his portrayal of Lucky, and it shocked the audience when he became more and more fierce as the monologue went on...a very very good actor, who brought something completely new to the part.

[naverednog]

ive got 2-3 weeks to learn this....wish me luck

[Hirfel]

@naverednog By wishing you luck, you'll be....lucky? Hey-oh!

[naverednog]

i hope to be able to do this in about 2 months

[insainiac33]

@naverednog We did this about a month ago, a shortened version. Our Lucky was amazing, memorising was a bugger.

[MegaGood5]

I tried to memorize this.... i failed or at least i keep forgetting many words unlike this character wooww!

[xxktdarcyxx]

omg its wonderfull sam becket is miles better then shakespeare

anyone no were i can get this piece

[maksal8]

The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. WOW .. What kind of energy is that?

He must be a genius. And I bet is one perecent inspiration and ninty -nine percent perspiration ...... for such a success you have to be blessed ...

[sandro9uerra]

"Waiting for Godot" by Samuel Beckett - Act 1 Lucky's Scene

[mightyafrowhitey]

one of the most amazing monologues I've ever heard

[ryanaliv]

For reasons unknown!!!

Really, this is an awesome play and a exquisitely directed and delivered monolouge...read the play...it's primo! :)

So is Skinny Legs and All...by Tom Robbins.

[Bryanfyb]

for reasons unknown!

[millie33433]

I would have thought the whole thing would have been completely rattled off as almost one long stream of conscious thought

[ValLovesTokioHotel]

I memorized this.

[awayfromspace31]

there is a student in my acting class who has to do this monologue.....very, very, very, very difficult to memorize.

[DrSamba1]

@awayfromspace31 I had memorized about half of this in high school just for the fun of it. I used to drive my friends crazy with it.

[dancakay]

wow what an insanely great monologue...! i was wondering when he was going to finish...so long!

[r1ch1etheman]

AVENGED :)

[MrNobleSavagery]

No one doubts Beckett's marvelous artistry, but apparently you have not seriously attended to Shakespeare.

[randomness15]

I remember studying Theatre of the Absurd in college, naturally this was in the syllabus :) and the i-stop technique- very useful to know!! :D

[flammesombres]

Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.

[lalaland173]

this is absolutely amazing!

it captures the theme of absurdity so well!!!

so intense

[Shaunmolenbos]

A rare playwright-actor fusion thinkable tinkerly for reasons unknown impressive like Connemara as of course the public works of Puncher and Waltmann are.

[hawrispi]

wow...!!!! this is so amazing. Lucky's speech is famous for its absurdity literally and metaphorically it has a very very hidden meaning which needs more exact interpretation. Such a great performance can vitalize the scene more and transfer it from its absurdity to its pregnancy of meaning. Nice performance.

[SuicideOnMyMind]

this was great! i just started reading waiting for godot and watching this makes me realize how great to see it acted out.

[dennis789111]

Very very silly. He might as well read the phone book. It would make more sense. Becket was a genius con man.

[fbahrami]

"waste and pine"

[KayKay345]

We've just finished out production of Waiting for Godot, and we did Lucky's speech as a kind of crazed scitzo who is having multiply thought seeing as there werre twelve of us on stage, it's so different to see it like this and none of our cast will forget doing Waiting for Godot.

We are all waiting for Godot in our own way

[Alfrunk]

God stfu you pseudo pretentious moron.

[2klarity]

he makes it sound like Poetry. Utterly amazing, not everyone could do this this well.

[phileeerrrp]

haha i had to read this speech in my English class when we studied this text. I didnt say it this well i must say haha

[ImagineTheatre]

This is ....incrediable. wow. Ive watched it three times, and its still leaving me speechless...

[puffinwrangler]

Alan Mandell, what an incredible voice, both in technical skill and artistic choices. The others, too, with stunning power!

[greentortouise]

Brilliant portrayal of Lucky.

[Mazurka1001]

Mind blowing! We live in a cannibal age compared to even twenty years ago. Amazing!!

[Mullin808]

A man at the height of his powers, a view inside not just humanity in the personal sense but a hint towards all things, that black and white nothingness that drives us forwards, and leads us towards the ends that we are no more capable of understanding than documenting as part of our history ununderstood.

[zofla90]

Unbelievable script. A masterpiece

[gregorsamsa123wfr43r]

Breath taking. Terrifying speech

[suffering44]

this is priceless why arent people doing these these days

[suffering44]

"Think"

and he start thinking too deep

[ecilovewentworth]

Brilliant story

[dgulf]

In this special Lucky, I see the 19th Century,highly mannered classical actor ... almost lost in time to us; AND the intellectual of 1900 when philosphy and letters collided (quaqua). The idea of the slave survives, but can Lucky survive the twenty first centry without the old references?

dgulf

[noodles1fan]

quaquaquaqua!

[amzie179]

woww nice job Lucky

[daipaulig]

Absolutely impressive. Great!!!

[kpaul2007]

WOW. WOW. WOW.

[25alicia25]

brilliant!

[25alicia25]

brilliant!

[nelv16]

!!!!!!

[TonyTHEponyCONS]

That was one superb performance by Alan Mandell. Absolute genius actor. ALAS ALAS!!

[theedda]

Brilliant performance.

[AnthonyBono]

:).....

[Eudaletism]

I'm bookmarking this in spite of the tennis and for reasons unknown (but time will tell).

[anjeli333]

Very good, thanks for posting it, SQDW. In spite of the tennis... haha.

[dmrahmet]

thanks for sharing...

[dastafford]

I love this...

[blondepopstar]

genius!

[dobricakobrica]

fantastic

[WildeGibbon]

so blue still and calm so calm with a calm... mmmm

[AliceMoving]

In spite of the tennis, I resume!

[sickboy04]

Given the existence of a personal God with white beard outside time without extension who from the heights of apathia divine loves us dearly with some exceptions for reasons unknown.

[shoepergirl]

amazing.