Cuando en 1953 se estreno en Paris Esperando a Godot, casi nadie sabia quien era Samuel Beckett, salvo, quiza, los que ya lo conocian como ex secretario de otro irlandes no menos genial: James Joyce. Por aquellas fechas, Beckett tenia escrita ya gran parte de su obra literaria; sin embargo, para muchos, paso a ser autor de Esperando a Godot. Se dice que, desde aquella primera puesta en escena -que, realizada por el gran Roger Blin, causo tanta estupefaccion y obtuvo tanto exito-hasta nuestros dias, no ha habido ano en que, en algun lugar de nuestro planeta, no se haya representado Esperando a ... continue
From an inauspicious beginning at the tiny Left Bank Theatre de Babylone in 1953, followed by bewilderment among American and British audiences, "Waiting for Godot" has become one of the most important and enigmatic plays of the past fifty years and a cornerstone of twentieth-century drama. As Clive Barnes wrote, "Time catches up with genius. . . . "Waiting for Godot" is one of the masterpieces of the century." The story revolves around two seemingly homeless men waiting for someone--or something--named Godot. Vladimir and Estragon wait near a tree, inhabiting a drama spun of their own conscio... continue