Waiting For Waiting For Godot
by Joe Schofield
Title
Waiting For Waiting For Godot
Artist
Joe Schofield
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
"Waiting For Godot" is a play by Samuel Beckett in which two characters, Vladimir (Didi) and Estragon (Gogo), engage in a variety of discussions and encounters while awaiting Godot, who never arrives.
This image was taken at Pt. Fermin Park in my home town. Seated at the vacant amphitheater in the park, a woman seemed to be waiting...waiting for something to happen on that stage. Life, imitating the art that is Godot, the actors never arrived.
As is the human condition, Vladimir and Estragon are a pair of human beings who do not know why they were put on earth. They make an assumption that there must be a point to their existence, and they await Godot for enlightenment.
Though they wait, and the mysterious Godot continually sends word that he will appear...he never does.
Written by the Parisian in 1949, it premiered in London in 1955. "Godot" is considered a masterpiece of the Theatre of the Absurd, and in a poll conducted by the British Royal National Theatre in 1998/99, it was voted the "most significant English-language play of the 20th century."
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Comments (27)
Paul Boizot
Nicely done - good treatment (some sort of sepia sketch effect?) - and theme. We had a day in Paris recently en route home, and saw Beckett's grave, and those of other luminaries, in the cemetery at Montmartre. Montmartre seems to be mostly trading off the artists and writers who lived (and drank) there in the 1920's and 30's onwards.
Joe Schofield replied:
Thanks Paul. If I return I may have to visit Pere Lachaise and recite the lyrics to People Are Strange over a certain grave…
Jim Love
This also could be called "Annual Meeting Of The Jim Love Appreciation Society"...terrific work Joe
Steve Henderson
I have heard of Waiting for Godot, but never really knew what it was about. Your image and corresponding essay pique my curiosity and inspire me to look into the matter.