Waiting For Godot - Samuel Becket (1953)

The second of the two on the list that I had never heard of before, this one fared much better.  This does not mean I understood what it was about, per se, however, I enjoyed it and finished it in a day's time.

The play contains only five characters - six if you admit that one is mysteriously played by the same actor and seven if you include the titular, but absent Godot - and reads like long, confused Abbot and Costello routine.  Mostly wandering and confusing in plot, there are many humorous moments that were quite vivd on the page and would be potential hilarious on the stage, particularly the radish/carrot moment and the hat-exchanging routine.

I did a little Wiki-research afterward and it seems Becket never really elaborated on his original intent and there is an abundance of interpretations, ranging from politics to religion to history and beyond.  Since not much happens and much is left to artist preference as far as descriptions and time period, this seems to make the analyzers' unending hypotheses that much more creative and, well, unending.  I, personally, have no idea.  But I liked it.

HIGH SCHOOL ME: Given that I had mostly engaging and dynamic English teachers in High School, I am confident they any of them, should they have chosen to teach this play, would have done it in such a way that it would have been entertaining and meaningful.  Or, with as much meaning as one could possibly glean from Becket's twisted little world.  I think I would have liked it then.