Mademoiselle Godot – Waiting for Godot
https://wiki.wizard101central.com/wiki/NPC:Mme._Godot
https://wiki.wizard101central.com/wiki/Quest:Waiting_for_Who_Knows
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiting_for_Godot
In the Quest “Waiting for Who Knows”, Mademoiselle Godot and her friend Monsieur Estragon accompany your wizard to view Avant Guard’s play. M. Estragon makes the point that Avant Guard makes no sense. Mme. Godot observes that Avant Guard is confusing lack of artistic structure with purposeful abstraction.
After viewing the “play” Mme. Godot and M. Estragon come to the conclusion that nothing makes any sense. Mme. Godot also wonders if any meaning they might have found is due to our tendency to find patterns and attribute meaning to the inherently meaningless.
Waiting for Godot a play by Irish playwright Samuel Beckett in which two characters, Vladimir (Didi) and Estragon (Gogo), engage in a variety of discussions and encounters while awaiting the titular Godot, who never arrives. Waiting for Godot is Beckett’s reworking of his own original French-language play, En attendant Godot, and is subtitled (in English only) “a tragicomedy in two acts”. In a poll conducted by the British Royal National Theatre in 1998/99, it was voted as, “the most significant English-language play of the 20th century”.
The original French text was composed between October 9, 1948 and January 29, 1949. The premiere, directed by Roger Blin, was on 5 January 1953 at the Théâtre de Babylone, Paris. The English-language version of the play premiered in London in 1955.
The play opens with two bedraggled acquaintances, Vladimir and Estragon, meeting by a leafless tree. Estragon notifies Vladimir of his most recent troubles: he spent the previous night lying in a ditch and received a beating from a number of anonymous assailants. The duo discuss a variety of issues at length, none of any apparent significance, and it is finally revealed that they are awaiting a man named Godot. They are not certain if they have ever met Godot, nor if he will even arrive.
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