SAMUEL BECKETT: WAITING FOR GODOT

Nobel Literature Laureate Sumuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot has become a contemporary classic. After, playwrights were encouraged to experiment with the underlying meaning of their work as well as with an absurdist style with minimal plots, expendable exposition, contradictory characters, unlocalised settings and unpredictable dialogue – plays in which blatant farce could jostle tragedy. Beckett was a tragicomic playwright whose art was consistently instilled with mordant wit. Today Waiting for Godot, first produced in 1953, is generally accepted as a cornerstone of modern theatre. The name ‘‘Godot’’ along with that of the author, is part of international mythology . Godot, who may or may not be a saviour, never arrives, but man keeps waiting for his possible arrival. Waiting in Beckett’s sense, is not a vacuum but an alternate activity that can be as visceral – or as mindless – as one makes it. Waiting for Godot has come to be regarded not only as a clown comedy with tragic dimensions but as a play about man coping with the nature of his existence in a world that appeared to be hurtling towards a self - induced apocalypse. Shakti Batra, Formerly Vice-Principal of Dayal Singh College (University of Delhi), has taught at the Kabul University and the University of Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek.

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