While Waiting for Godot While Waiting for Godot While Waiting for Godot is a web series adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s play "En Attendant Godot". It is the winner of Best Cinematography at the 2014 Rome Web Awards, and an Official Selection of the 2014 Miami Web Fest. The screenplay is based on a 2013 translation (by director Rudi Azank), "in order to restore the language of Beckett’s more risqué original French script (the English script of the play has always been heavily censored). Also more present in the original manuscript are strong Vaudevillian and Jewish aspects of Didi and Gogo, the two lead characters,
Waiting for Godot emphasis should be on the first syllable, and that the North American pronunciation is a mistake. Georges Borchardt, Beckett's literary agent, and who represents Beckett's literary estate, has always pronounced "Godot" in the French manner, with equal emphasis on both syllables. Borchardt checked with Beckett's nephew, Edward, who told him his uncle pronounced it that way as well. There is only one scene throughout both acts. Two men are waiting on a country road by a tree. The men are of unspecified origin, though it is clear that they are not English by nationality since they refer to currency as