• The Play Podcast - 089 - Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett

  • Dec 16 2024
  • Length: 56 mins
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The Play Podcast - 089 - Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett

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  • Episode 089: Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

    Host: Douglas Schatz
    Guest: Matthew McFrederick

    Welcome to The Play Podcast where we explore the greatest new and classic plays. Each episode we choose a single play to talk about in depth with our expert guest. We’ll discuss the play’s origins, its themes, characters, structure and impact. For us the play is the thing.

    Samuel Beckett’s tragicomedy, Waiting for Godot, is a notoriously confounding work of theatre. The play is renowned for its lack of conventional plot or exposition, and for its existential predicament. Given its desolate philosophical landscape it is also surprisingly funny. Its theatrical imagery and intellectual provocation remain as potent as when it was first performed in Paris in 1953.

    As we record this episode an illustrious production is on stage at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in London starring Ben Whishaw and Lucian Msamati. I am delighted to be joined by Dr Matt McFrederick from the University of Reading to help survey this famously challenging landmark of modern drama.
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