
Beckett Directs Beckett: Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Drama · Comedy · TV Movie
Overview
Two seemingly homeless men waiting for someone or something named Godot. Vladimir and Estragon wait near a tree on a barren stretch of road, inhabiting a drama spun from their own consciousness.
Top Cast
Lawrence Held
Lawrence Held
Estragon
Lawrence Held
Estragon
Bud Thorpe
Bud Thorpe
Vladimir
Bud Thorpe
Vladimir
Alan Mendell
Alan Mendell
Lucky
Alan Mendell
Lucky
Rick Cluchey
Rick Cluchey
Pozzo
Rick Cluchey
Pozzo
Louis Beckett-Cluchey
Louis Beckett-Cluchey
The boy
Louis Beckett-Cluchey
The boy
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The elusive author of Waiting for Godot cooperated in the production of this portrait, which traces Beckett’s artistic life through his prose, plays, and poetry. Billie Whitelaw, Jack McGowran, and Patrick Magee—Beckett’s great dramatic interpreters—appear in selected extracts from the plays; Beckett specialist David Warrilow narrates a variety of texts.

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