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Waiting for Godot: As interpreted at age 20 and age 75

The writer says age and experience revealed the play’s philosophical depth and its two-act meditation on time, birth and death.

For those of you who may not have had the opportunity to see or read ‘Waiting for Godot’, it is a play by Samuel Beckett, first performed in Paris in 1953. Often described as an absurd tragic comedy, I can verify that it is completely subjective, depending on where you are in life when you experience it. At its most basic, simplified core, ‘Waiting for Godot’ is about two vagrants, Vladimir and Estragon, who endlessly wait for a mysterious figur…

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The Advocate-Messenger broke the news on Monday, May 11, 2026.
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