Do you consider Waiting for Godot to be a tragedy? A comedy. Why?
2007-11-05 01:15:03 · 5 answers · asked by abackilla91 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Theater & Acting
Well, if you have to classify it as one of those two, it's a comedy. Its author also considered it a comedy and n the original New York run it starred Bert Lahr (The Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz). In a recent revival, it starred Robin Williams and Steve Martin. Sound funny to you?
2007-11-05 01:51:26 · answer #1 · answered by actormyk 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
permit me answer this query with a query... Why do you think that the inmates at San Quentin reformatory discovered the play had meaning to them? They wait, and then they wait some greater. Or why did between the 1st productions of the play, complete at Lüttringhausen reformatory generate this remark from the inmate who point the play: "you would be taken aback to be receiving a letter approximately your play waiting for Godot, from a penal complex the place lots of thieves, forgers, toughs, homos, loopy adult males and killers spend this ***** of a existence waiting … and arranged … and arranged. waiting for what? Godot? in step with hazard."? no longer all performs have meaning for you once you examine or see them... yet sometime you merely could understand why they have been waiting and for whom...
2016-10-03 09:34:43 · answer #2 · answered by kelcey 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's really a type of theatre called "absurdist theatre", if it was an open-ended question.
2007-11-05 11:48:35 · answer #3 · answered by Tim 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a comedy...no doubt!
2007-11-05 05:06:52 · answer #4 · answered by mandy_lyner 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You really should do your own homework.
2007-11-05 03:22:13 · answer #5 · answered by Theatre Doc 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋