Waiting for Godot Waiting for Godot Waiting for Godot ( ) is a play by Samuel Beckett, in which two characters, Vladimir (Didi) and Estragon (Gogo), wait for the arrival of someone named Godot who never arrives, and while waiting they engage in a variety of discussions and encounter three other characters. "Waiting for Godot" is Beckett's translation of his own original French play, , and is subtitled (in English only) "a tragicomedy in two acts". The original French text was composed between 9 October 1948 and 29 January 1949. The premiere was on 5 January 1953 in the , Paris. The English
Silence (1969 play) Silence (1969 play) Silence is a short play by Harold Pinter first performed in 1969. The première was given by the Royal Shakespeare Company in London on 2 July 1969, directed by Peter Hall. The cast was: The American première was given in 1970 by the Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center, with Barbara Tarbuck, Robert Symonds and James Patterson, directed by Peter Gill. In the introduction to the first volume of his "Complete Plays", Pinter wrote: There are two silences. One when no word is spoken. The other when perhaps a torrent of language is being employed. This speech is