Pozzo (Waiting for Godot) Pozzo (Waiting for Godot) Pozzo is a character from Samuel Beckett's play "Waiting for Godot". His name is Italian for "well" (as in "oil well"). On the surface he is a pompous, sometimes foppish, aristocrat (he claims to live in a manor, own many slaves and a Steinway piano), cruelly using and exploiting those around him (specifically his slave, Lucky and, to a lesser extent, Estragon). He wears similar clothes to Vladimir and Estragon (i.e. a bowler and suit), but they are not in the dire condition theirs are. While by no means a villain in a conventional sense of
Krapp's Last Tape Gistirak played Krapp at the Above Board Theatre in 1978. It was directed by Michael Corrigan. In 2018, Bob Nasmith played Krapp to mark the 50th anniversary of the opening of Theatre Passe Muraille in a production directed by Mac Fyfe. Beckett opposed vehemently the transfer of some of his works from one medium to another, but he did not oppose such recordings of "Krapp's Last Tape" as much as he did others. For example, "A gramophone recording (New York: Spoken Arts #788, 1960), based on the original American production, was distributed by Argo (RG 220), and by HEAR, Home