In season three of Buffy there is a scene where the characters are in the library waiting for Faith. Buffy says of Faith "She is so tardy she makes Gordo look punctual". For years I didn't understand ...

As a Beckett scholar, I think it’s worth asking why Afrikaans is so late on the scene – and why it matters. The action involves two tramps, Vladimir and Estragon, who have a series of absurd ...

Two men in bowler hats wait near a tree on a country road for the mysterious Godot, and they are eventually met by a third man and his enslaved companion, and later a boy. The next day, the scenario ...

As this new revival takes center stage, it offers an ideal moment to trace the play’s journey: from Beckett’s postwar France to its polarizing first performances in Paris and London, to its absorption ...

Of course it works. Two old friends known for their clownish escapades, always wanting to get back to somewhere they were – anywhere but here, really – all the while using ever so odd verbiage to ...