Waiting For Godot - Lucky Speech

[cilibinarii]

Fartov and Belcher.

Gentlemen.

[O33653337357]

Pay attention, kids; all of this, for reasons unknown, will be on the test.

[rlathbury]

A good performance. I wish the director had not changed "fades away" to "shrink and dwindles." It needs to be slowed down at the end, sped up less. I believe that I understand this apparently incoherent babble: all philosophical investigations (whose titles are nicely parodied), mostly incomplete, reach a self-evident conclusion: man "wastes and pines." The main subject and verb are "it is established." Lucky's speech owes much to the send-ups of logic in Flann O'Brien's _At Swim-Two-Birds._

[elemmir]

@rlathbury ...Actually "shrink and dwindle" is in the original text. O:) I'd not heard of "At Swim-Two-Birds", that looks really interesting.

[Kabloomi]

quaquaquaqua

[cronolucca]

There is an end to his thinking!!

[skellington15]

What is this? I don't even...

[EnceladusEmpire]

'Godot' means 'forever' in Gaelic. 

[knobbly]

@EnceladusEmpire And 'noting' in French

[moneymandate]

And this still makes more sense than Dianetics

[GaladedridDamodred]

quaquaquaqua

[mataleao1994]

I usually watch these videos to help better understand the text...this did nothing for me.

[KingOfKatamari]

quaquaquaqua

I just read this for my summer reading in AP Lit and I am so confused...

[okthatsitKIARA]

My goodness! o_O

[ShaneMcClyroFlynn]

I'm performing this in 12 hours....sweet jesus

[Gutlessfoot]

im doing this monologue for my boards :)

[imskilled94]

What...the...fuck?

[jhniscolV2]

@imskilled94

this monologue actually has some meaning

[tatehegstrom1994]

@jhniscolV2 what is it?

[jhniscolV2]

@tatehegstrom1994

it's about God and how he feels anger when his creation goes to else but paradoxically, he doesn't hep them because of their sins

It's a contrast of life and death

It's about the death of the earth because of human beings

there is much more in addition to that though

[strangereffect]

@jhniscolV2 "If by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not Godot." - Samuel Beckett

It's one of the most illusive plays of all time for a reason buddy; nobody has yet to make a definite conclusion as to what it means so don't pretend as if you do.

[jhniscolV2]

@strangereffect

I never said Godot him/herself meant god. I'm referring to solely the monologue of Lucky

It speaks heavily of the bible and a sympathetic god who looks highly upon its creations and feels sorrow for having to banish them to hell for their wrong doing (personal god with a white beard...who from the heights of divine apathia... loves us dearly...and suffers for those who are...plunged into torment, plunged into fire) (the ...s are Lucky's additional reasons unknown line and such

[strangereffect]

@jhniscolV2 Oh fair enough. Sorry it seemed as though you were referring to the entire play (probably the way your comment was placed in the feed). I also thought you were referring to the meaning behind this part of the text, which I don't think is specifically about God at all (even if there are biblical references). But I see what you mean :)

[13themuse]

My AP lit teacher told us he would give us an A in the class if we memorize this speech. I am halfway through it

[crimdell]

@13themuse So, did you nail it yet?

[13themuse]

@crimdell Yup passed the class :) It was torture memorizing it tho

[pekitivey]

"QUAW QUAW QAUW"

[ihavethebrain]

such is life

[hi5m8]

got three weeks to remember this, and then pretty much picked up and slammed onto the floor, yep great fun.

[uyasinov]

Береза це прикольніше робить!

[Ahndeigh105]

got half of it memorized but can't even come close to delivering it like this

[derman077]

LITTLE KNOWN FACT FOR YOU ALL. In the Jay and Silent Bob movie. The writer says he based Bluntman and Chronic on a combination of Vladamere + Estragon and Rosencrantz + Guildenstern. True story.

[gambitrogue9]

Where can I find this whole movie? I know it is a play, but this looks like it is professionally done. I didn't know there were any movie versions of this play.

[TheTemporaryTemp]

talk about a run-on sentence...

[ClassicEdgeElite]

@TheTemporaryTemp haha, i know.

[nabeelmashren]

legendary monologue.

[Alphanumeric69]

acacacademy of anthropopopology

[DrClay999]

its one thing to ramble without thinking

but to remember this whole thing word for word, to ramble must be hell.

I give this guy credit

[SandroAerogen]

I think like that too.

[mojaheda2008]

لدي مشروع لتحليل هذه المسرحية ..ولم انته بعد ، حيرتني كثيرا ..

[HappyBuddhazz99]

I analyzed the shit out of this gay play for english and got an A, but i still think its waaay overrated

[derman077]

@HappyBuddhazz99 Might i then recommend "Waiting for Elmo"

[HappyBuddhazz99]

@derman077 Hey that shits brilliant

[claritynow]

All I can think whenever I am sitting waiting for a play to end so I can go home and have a drink is: "Well, at least THEY seem to be enjoying themselves up there."

[Katydid1322]

@DrClay999

Yes :) It was exhausting.

[DrClay999]

@Katydid1322

Nice!

For some reason I wasn't alerted that you replied to my comment :P

[DrClay999]

does there exist a full upload of this version of the play? It is my favorite one :(

[ColdDadaNothing]

rofl, I love your account name

[MrPozzoz]

Beckett goes stright to one's heart and intellect .....

[jamesbluntslunts]

i have been this way on more than one occasion

[beggs29]

Despite living, despite advancing or retreating in life, there is ultimately; regression.

[CaptainSpork7]

I say GODDAMN. Ive watched this at least fifteen times and I think I'm just now starting to get it...I hope.

[JARORICK01]

Anyone know where I can see the rest of this presentation of Waiting for Godot? I know there is another version of it on youtube, with diferent actors, but hoping to catch this one. Saw it on PBS years ago, and been haunted by it since.

[cmxcmx]

@JARORICK01 This is the 2001 movie version of Waiting for Godot (see imdb). I'm sure you can find a way to obtain it.

[IOYC]

THIS IS MY NEW FAVOURITE THING

[prateeks333]

i jst prepared dis monologue 4 my show on monday.. it waz damn difficult but now i can impress any1..

[thedrumbum1990]

absolute savagery

[sagnella]

Awesome username...

[IFuckExquisitelyHARD]

@sagnella Thanks baby ;)

[gpeddino]

I would love to be an actor so I could play Lucky.

[earlemartin]

quaquaquaqua

[MsCiaraR123]

'loves us dearly...with some exceptions'

brilliant.

[Doubtbreak]

@itismeh I'm pretty sure it's supposed to be complete nonsense for the most part. It's filled with allusions but the idea is that Lucky can't think like he used to, he's sort of "broken." That's why Pozzo is so tormented by what Lucky is saying, hes tired of listening to rambeling

[flamingattiude]

Im gonna and try and learn this of my assessment, I have 2 weeks to learn it x Wish Me Luck :P x

[hd25yuutube]

Best. Monologue. Ever.

[thegorillasnake]

In spite of the tennis!

[AnonymousFella]

exceptional

[itismeh]

how many of you actually know what this means

[sexyduckwithahat]

@itismeh its basically says u live then u die :P

[Asherov1]

This is my Bible in a nutshell, and I'm an atheist.

[naverednog]

holy shit! and i need to learn this!

[ABvalley54]

I get tongue tied trying to learn this

[theshepherdofoz]

Gah! We're reading this in yr 12 drama. I couldn't watch more than a minute of it. Drives me insane!

[OnLoIfVrIiAeHnWd]

deep.

[PiPStudios2008]

i have to learn this for my gcse piece so thanks for posting it :)

[Katydid1322]

I am currently attempting to memorize this whole thing in under two hours for my theatre final. Wish me luck!

[megamatt53]

@Katydid1322 how did it go ????

[kallador1]

@Katydid1322 In spite of the tennis?

[DrClay999]

@Katydid1322

so.....

did you pass?

[rapauli]

@Katydid1322 - it has been a year... got it yet?

[ducgrl]

Nothing to be done...

[thexalon]

This sounds familiar, somehow. Like the stuff I would read off the shared printer at a liberal arts college. Correct-ish English, with appropriate academic references, but making not the slightest bit of sense.

[Eirelav111]

I love how Vladimar and Estragon are creeping up to him watching intently. For some reason it just makes me laugh

[minaimo]

ugh...i had to learn this by heart...luckly i was able to cut out a portion...after learning that i wanted to murder samuel beckket, great playwright may he be

[TheSoulMan8]

it is amazing how you can understand every word he says, but not the meaning of it all

[cromagmax]

you are exactly right!!! That is what i was told in my acting class. That I need to work on my diction

[tigerboy1966]

I would always be tempted to just improvise and drop "in spite of the tennis" and "the skull connemara" in at key points.

Did it once... Nothing happened...

[drone5]

a wonderful thing about Beckett's drama is how widely varied the actors' interpretations can be, since the playwright gives them so little.

in high school I memorized three Hamlet soliloquies. unimaginable now. could I remember even the first 50 words of this?

"personal God...loves us dearly with some exceptions for reasons unknown but time will tell..."

[mzSpoilt92]

could someone please tell me what act and scene this is

[013108today]

You have a 50/50 chance of getting it right if you guess.

[limori84]

good luck aeveryone who are going to play it.. very challanging!!

[Jdiggity101]

Ive gotta have it ready in less than a week for my yr 11 drama assessment.

Not a chance...

[bibito85]

very deep...deep blue.

love it.

[retread01]

When I read it, I didn't think there was supposed to be any 'acting' involved like this performance. Shouldn't it be more monotone and mindless?  Maybe not, I don't know what Beckett said about it himself.

[Yauncle]

I agree, yeah, it had a different feeling when I read it.

[scipioscalan]

Beckett gave no stage direction in the entire speech, in contrst to the detailed directions in the rest of the play. I think he intended this to be compeltely open to intperpretation of the director.

[TheClownPrince94]

meh. I'm only 15 and I have to do this on sage in like three months

[pyrarten]

i have to do this on stage in 9 DAYS!!!!

[BmcMackin07]

Im only 16 and i have to learn this on stage but i have to do it very quickly lol. I hope i can pull this off :)

[calumjlindsay]

i'm doing it in the first performance tomorrow night! i'm 17. it's fucking difficult! the end bit really messes me up.

[utgfilms]

im 18

[cairna12]

im..

[MizzJenstar15]

This was amazing to watch in the theatre....I have no idea how they memorise so many lines lol

Amazing play/performance *****

[djsghostly]

One of the craziest monologues I've ever heard. Brilliant :)

[StrangeFilmz]

To edwardandrobert:

Yes, you make sense. Lucky's speech actually does make a good deal of sense, when you really break it down and listen. But Beckett said once before in an interview that "Godot is NOT God". A god, maybe. But not our god, or the "American God", rather; the Catholic God. B/c in this, Beckett was kind of going against the Irish Catholic Church. Which he also said he'd done before.

[calumjlindsay]

the speech itsself doesn't concern godot at all. you can break it down quite simply into a section lamenting how god exist but doesn't care, then a section saying man has tried in existence but ultimately fails, and then a section saying the earth is a cold dead place. its all related to the views of bishop berkely.

[psychoticFreud]

Such a good performance. I had to read it in class today. I really admire him for remembering it so well.

One of my favourite plays.

[edwardandrobert]

there is logic in this speech

a lot of it actually.

since he is an absurdist, beckett talks abt how there is a God "who loves us dearly with some exceptions for reasons unknown" shows some kind of stoic and indifferent God.

And makes fun of the acedemics by stuttering at that part, and talks abt how we just do things in life to bide the time till death (with the sports and the "Alimentation and defecations (eat and waste))

...there is so much more

[athiam152]

dia kira dia keren? sampah abis ini si rambut putih.. jembutnya jg putih kali ya...

[athiam152]

ini si bule omong apa sih?

[drummerpablo1]

Best play ever.

[zeromenace]

where can i get this monologue??

[Darkraptor1000]

Buy the play.

[IFuckExquisitelyHARD]

Lucky is interpreted by Stephen Brennan.

[jaymeeharkeen]

this is so good. i think it's the best version of this speech. i like lucky's hair. its so pretty. i love it how he's completely fixed on what he has to say. i like it how he's not acting like he's stupid, he's acting like he's smart. he's such a good actor. who is he? does anyone know?

[cfotoole]

The actor's name is Stephen Brennan, if I'm not mistaken.

[Caprile91]

I had to do my Theatre Studies coursework on Godot and analyze the entire play last year but as tough as that was I can hardly complain to have come across such such genius as Beckett's.

[marleyman14]

I have to play Pozzo, this play makes even less sense to act then to watch

[fastrnb]

I was Estragon last spring, it was brutal but rewarding.

[silversamurai666]

I can only analyze the first part and nothing else after that lol. Its so hard.

[fastrnb]

Read Vladmir's speech in the 2nd act, it's the main theme for the entire play.

[silversamurai666]

I mean how would you just analyze this speech alone? I dont want to analyze the whole play.

[fastrnb]

I didn't suggest you analyze the entire play, just Vladmir's speech. My memory is getting fuzzy, but Lucky's speech is very similar. It's also very circular & full of terrible dirty jokes. Most of the content refers to how Man distracts himself while living, and how God may or may not exist.

[KatherineXIX]

How the hell would you memorize this? Haha. You could probably just start making stuff up and only the die-hard Beckett fans would notice. But that said, great playwrighting and acting!

[fastrnb]

There is logic in the speech, not much, but it's in there.

[prgwbtd]

I like the way he did this speech...he maintained the rhythm of the scene - an intention of absurdist theatre. I've seen it done more dramatically before, but when done that way, it breaks up the almost singing quality to it.

[TheFuriesThree]

I always imagined it being much faster.

[Darkraptor1000]

This truly shows the true nature of absurdism. Truly brilliant. Crazy and insane but truly brilliant.

[Porpentine315]

haha estragon :P Wow i've been looking for a performance of Lucky's speech for a while. Thanks for putting it up.

[conhead4]

fascinating and compelling.

[Mercybane]

Amazing.

[Happy0]

xD hee hee