Waiting for Godot (by Samuel Beckett)

For a Handful of Books Season 23 Episode 3

Overview:
The third episode of "Per un Pugno di libri", the most famous book-game on Italian television, sees the Liceo Scientifico "Nicolò Copernico" of Brescia (BS) and the Liceo Classico "Filippo A. Gualterio" of Orvieto (TR) compete this Saturday on one of the most revolutionary texts of twentieth-century theatre: Waiting for Godot by the Irish writer Samuel Beckett, published in 1952. A work without a real plot in which the characters, Vladimir and Estragon, live a life of fulfillment in the vain wait for Godot, for his arrival. Everyone waits for him even though they know he will never arrive. A work, this one by Samuel Beckett, very current, that speaks to us of the absurdity of life, of its nonsense, of the absence of values ​​and points of reference and of the loneliness of modern man.

Genre : Talk

Actors : Piero D'Orfles, Geppi Cucciari

Release Date : 2020-02-01

Duration : 50 menit

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Other Episodes (Season 23)

Martin Eden (di Jack London)
1. Martin Eden (di Jack London)
Natural Histories (by Primo Levi)
2. Natural Histories (by Primo Levi)
Waiting for Godot (by Samuel Beckett)
3. Waiting for Godot (by Samuel Beckett)
The Gambler (by Fyodor Dostoevsky)
4. The Gambler (by Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Frankenstein (di Mary Shelley)
5. Frankenstein (di Mary Shelley)
Poirot at Styles Court (by Agatha Christie)
6. Poirot at Styles Court (by Agatha Christie)
The Life Ahead (by Romain Gary)
7. The Life Ahead (by Romain Gary)
Reunion (by Fred Uhlman)
8. Reunion (by Fred Uhlman)


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