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Waiting for Godot

tragicomedy in 2 acts

By Samuel Beckett

Estragon
Vladimir Lucky Pozzo a boy




ACT I

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A country road. A tree.


Evening.




Estragon, sitting on a low mound, is trying to take off his boot. He pulls
at it with both hands, panting. He gives up, exhausted, rests, tries
again.
As before.
Enter Vladimir.
ESTRAGON:
(giving up again). Nothing to be done.
VLADIMIR:
(advancing with short, stiff strides, legs wide apart). I'm beginning to
come round to that opinion. All my life I've tried to put it from me,
saying Vladimir, be reasonable, you haven't yet tried everything. And I
resumed the struggle. (He broods, musing on the struggle. Turning to
Estragon.) So there you are again.
ESTRAGON:
Am I?
VLADIMIR:
I'm glad to see you back. I thought you were gone forever.
ESTRAGON:
Me too.
VLADIMIR:
Together again at last! We'll have to celebrate this. But how? (He
reflects.) Get up till I embrace you.
ESTRAGON:
(irritably). Not now, not now.
VLADIMIR:
(hurt, coldly). May one inquire where His Highness spent the night?