Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

Author:Samuel Beckett
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Irish, Welsh, English, Drama, Scottish, Shelf: Top, European
ISBN: 9780802144423
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 1956-01-02T06:00:00+00:00

Enter Boy, timidly. He halts.

BOY:

Mister Albert . . . ?

VLADIMIR:

Yes.

ESTRAGON:

What do you want?

VLADIMIR:

Approach!

The Boy does not move.

ESTRAGON:

( forcibly) . Approach when you're told, can't you?

The Boy advances timidly, halts.

VLADIMIR:

What is it?

BOY:

Mr. Godot . . .

VLADIMIR:

Obviously . . . ( Pause. ) Approach.

ESTRAGON:

( violently) . Will you approach! ( The Boy advances timidly. ) What kept you so late?

VLADIMIR:

You have a message from Mr. Godot?

BOY:

Yes Sir.

VLADIMIR:

Well, what is it?

ESTRAGON:

What kept you so late?

The Boy looks at them in turn, not knowing to which he should reply.

VLADIMIR:

( to Estragon) . Let him alone.

ESTRAGON:

( violently) . You let me alone. ( Advancing, to the Boy. ) Do you know what time it is?

BOY:

( recoiling) . It's not my fault, Sir.

ESTRAGON:

And whose is it? Mine?

BOY:

I was afraid, Sir.

ESTRAGON:

Afraid of what? Of us? ( Pause. ) Answer me!

VLADIMIR:

I know what it is, he was afraid of the others.

ESTRAGON:

How long have you been here?

BOY:

A good while, Sir.

VLADIMIR:

You were afraid of the whip?

BOY:

Yes Sir.

VLADIMIR:

The roars?

BOY:

Yes Sir.

VLADIMIR:

The two big men.

BOY:

Yes Sir.

VLADIMIR:

Do you know them?

BOY:

No Sir.

VLADIMIR:

Are you a native of these parts? ( Silence. ) Do you belong to these parts?

BOY:

Yes Sir.

ESTRAGON:

That's all a pack of lies. ( Shaking the Boy by the arm. ) Tell us the truth!

BOY:

( trembling) . But it is the truth, Sir!

VLADIMIR:

Will you let him alone! What's the matter with you? #

( Estragon releases the Boy, moves away, covering his face with his hands. Vladimir and the Boy observe him. Estragon drops his hands. His face is convulsed. ) What's the matter with you?

ESTRAGON:

I'm unhappy.

VLADIMIR:

Not really! Since when?

ESTRAGON:

I'd forgotten.

VLADIMIR:

Extraordinary the tricks that memory plays! ( Estragon tries to speak, renounces, limps to his place, sits down and begins to take off his boots. To Boy. ) Well?

BOY:

Mr. Godot—

VLADIMIR:

I've seen you before, haven't I?

BOY:

I don't know, Sir.

VLADIMIR:

You don't know me?

BOY:

No Sir.

VLADIMIR:

It wasn't you came yesterday?

BOY:

No Sir.

VLADIMIR:

This is your first time?

BOY:

Yes Sir.

Silence.

VLADIMIR:

Words words. ( Pause. ) Speak.

BOY:

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