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    Waiting for Godot (/ˈɡɒdoʊ/ GOD-oh) is a play by Irish playwright Samuel Beckett in which two characters, Vladimir (Didi) and Estragon (Gogo), engage...
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  • 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...
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  • characters from Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. The "optimist" (and, as Beckett put it, "the major character"1) of Godot, he represents the intellectual...
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    Lucky is a character from Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. He is a slave to the character Pozzo. Lucky is unique in a play where most of the characters...
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    Godot (/ˈɡɒdoʊ/ GOD-oh) is a cross-platform, free and open-source game engine released under the permissive MIT license. It was initially developed in...
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  • Parker Posey. The film's title is a reference to Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot. As in the other mockumentary films created by Guest, the majority...
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  • Godot may refer to: Godot, the eponymous character in the play Waiting for Godot Godot (band), an English synthpop band formed in the 1980s Buck Godot...
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    later made the transition to straight theater. He got a script of Waiting for Godot, and was greatly impressed but unsure of how the revolutionary play...
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    To Direct McKellen and Stewart in UK Waiting for Godot", Broadway.com, 31 October 2008 "West End Breakfast for Anna Friel", BBC News, 15 May 2009 "Breakfast...
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    Aspects of it became evident in Beckett's later works, such as Watt and Waiting for Godot. In 1932, he wrote his first novel, Dream of Fair to Middling Women...
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  • 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...
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    theatre director, poet, and literary translator. Beckett's well-known Waiting for Godot, premiered in 1953, is classified within absurdist theatre using techniques...
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    Ian McKellen (category European Film Award for Best Actor winners)
    (2013), and Waiting for Godot (2013), the latter two being a joint production with Patrick Stewart. McKellen achieved worldwide fame for his film roles...
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  • IMDb". IMDb. "Waiting for Godot". Beckett on Film. Archived from the original on 15 October 2014. Retrieved 29 March 2013. "Waiting for Godot". Beckett on...
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    Who Came To Dinner (2000), The Odd Couple (2005), Butley (2006), Waiting for Godot (2009), The Addams Family (2010), It's Only a Play (2014), Gary: A...
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    production of Waiting for Godot, in 1988, in the role of Lucky. Lucky's only lines consist of a famous 500-word-long monologue, an ironic element for Irwin since...
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  • Waiting for God may refer to: Waiting for God (TV series) Waiting for God (band) Waiting for God (album), 1994 "Waiting for God" (Red Dwarf) "Waiting...
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    including South Pacific, Two Trains Running, A Soldier's Play, and Waiting for Godot. He provided the voice of Jonah Bishop on the Nickelodeon series Welcome...
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  • Naseeruddin Shah, and Waiting For Godot was their first play on 29 July 1979 at Prithvi Theatre. The play was revived in 2009 for the group's 30th anniversary...
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    1998, Shalhoub starred in The Classic Stage Company's production of Waiting for Godot alongside John Turturro and Christopher Lloyd. After playing several...
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    Dinner (2000), The Frogs (2004), The Odd Couple (2005), Butley (2006), Waiting For Godot (2009), The Addams Family (2010), The Nance (2013), It's Only a Play...
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    [citation needed] He was also in Hamlet, The Holiday, Amphitryon '38, and Waiting for Godot (as Vladimir; all 1958). He hoped The Holiday would take him to the...
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    off-Broadway, 2002 Waiting for Godot (as Vladimir, replacing Patrick Stewart), Haymarket Theatre, London, 2010 Waiting for Godot (as Vladimir), His Majesty's...
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  • series with two directors. The title refers to the Samuel Beckett play Waiting for Godot, and to Ronald Reagan, occasionally nicknamed "Dutch", who appears...
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    Waiting for Godot. Stewart had previously appeared only once alongside McKellen on stage, but the pair had developed a close friendship while waiting...
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  • of the two main characters from Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. His name is the French word for tarragon. Estragon represents the impulsive, simplistic...
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    Award for Best Traditional Blues Album in 1991. On November 19, 1957, San Francisco Actors Workshop put on a performance of Waiting for Godot, despite...
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    Samuel Beckett's Waiting For Godot, for the Sydney Theatre Company. In the spring of 2013, Weaving reprised the Agent Smith role for a General Electric...
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    (La Leçon) in 1951 and The Chairs (Les Chaises) in 1952. Beckett's Waiting for Godot was first performed on 5 January 1953 at the Théâtre de Babylone [de;...
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  • London audiences to the work of Samuel Beckett with the UK premiere of Waiting for Godot. Hall founded the Royal Shakespeare Company (1960–68) and went on...
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