Waiting for Godot Feelings ran high and the opposition, led by Sir Malcolm Sargent, threatened to resign if "Godot" won [The Best New Play category]. An English compromise was worked out by changing the title of the award. "Godot" became The Most Controversial Play of the Year. It is a prize that has never been given since." In the Australian premiere at the Arrow Theatre in Melbourne in 1957, Barry Humphries played Estragon opposite Peter O'Shaughnessy's Vladimir. Although not his favourite amongst his plays, "Waiting for Godot" was the work which brought Beckett fame and financial stability and as such it always held
Frances Beckett his artistic sensibilities. The Sinclairs' business interests suffered under the Nazi persecution of the Jews in Germany and they returned to Ireland. Cissie Beckett found family life encroached on her artistic activities and she was further restricted in her work by arthritis towards the end of her life. Frances Beckett Frances Beckett (1880-1951), Irish artist, was the paternal aunt of Nobel laureate Samuel Beckett. Her father was William Beckett and her brother William, one of four brothers, was Samuel Beckett's father. Beckett studied art at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art and in Paris at Colarossi's studio, where she went