![]() “Estragon,” I heard a particularly untalented colleague whisper to her friend, “That’s more like it. I’d recently played Cinderella in a Christmas production and the prevailing opinion at the time had been surprise. I noticed several of my class-mates snicker. Waiting for Godot is one of the masterpieces of the century.The story revolves around two seemingly. I was half-way through my second year when I was cast as Estragon in an upcoming production of Waiting for Godot. As Clive Barnes wrote, Time catches up with genius. Nothing motivates me more than when people have low expectations of me. One often got the impression as a student that you were barely tolerated and could only prove your worth through pain and suffering. One of the places this was most evident was George Brown theatre school, where the motto may just as well have been, "Te futueo et caballum tuum" which roughly translated from the Latin means: screw you and the horse you rode in on. Waiting for Godot (GOD oh) is a play written by Irish playwright Samuel Beckett in which two characters named Estragon and Vladimir wait endlessly and. Beckett presents characters who are painfully aware. Godot has been interpreted in many ways, but here I limit my essay to the understanding that he represents the meaning or purpose of life. You know those terriers you see, jaws clamped around a ball as their owners pick them up off the ground? That’s me. One occupies oneself with the action (or inaction) of waiting for one’s Godot to arrive and to release one from this endless waiting. Instead, I attack everything I do with verve and tenacity. ![]() I am not one of those people who procrastinates, or can’t decide. I have spent a good portion of my life waiting for things to happen, through no fault of my own.
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