{"id":4386,"date":"2016-02-21T18:10:12","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T01:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/?p=4386"},"modified":"2016-02-21T18:10:12","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T01:10:12","slug":"waiting-for-godot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/?p=4386","title":{"rendered":"Waiting for Godot"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did you ever have to read Waiting for Godot<\/em> in its original French?!\u00a0 It\u2019s a play in two acts written by Samuel Beckett who is a defining playwright of the movement known as Theatre of the Absurd.<\/p>\n

The entire play takes place beside a tree and it\u2019s about two guys who are waiting for a third guy named Godot.\u00a0 The first scene ends when a boy shows up and tells the other two that Godot isn\u2019t coming today, maybe tomorrow.\u00a0 The second scene progresses exactly the same way, with Godot being a no-show yet again.<\/p>\n

Yep, that makes *no* sense. Totally absurd.\u00a0 An entire play of it.\u00a0 So much so that I now understand why the French invented wine.\u00a0 So that they could drink it instead of having to read this play.<\/p>\n

And you know what might be slightly worse than having to READ an absurdist play? Having to SEE an absurdist play. Eug\u00e8ne Ionesco is another defining playwright of the absurdist movement, and his La Cantatrice Chauve<\/em> (the Bald Soprano) is why the French subsequently invented drinking wine\u2026on the sidewalk\u2026before going into the Theatre of the Absurd.<\/p>\n

I speak from experience when I say that you can drink wine right there on the sidewalk before you go into Th\u00e9atre de la Huchette in Paris where The Bald Soprano<\/em> continues its amazing run. You can have two, even three glasses of wine if you want, at your caf\u00e9 table on the sidewalk right before you go in to see the\u00a0play.\u00a0 It helps.\u00a0 A little bit.\u00a0 But not that much.\u00a0 Because the whole play\u00a0is still absurd, and no hairless\u00a0singer ever shows up.<\/p>\n

But you know what must be the worst thing of all?!? STARRING in your own absurdist play.\u00a0 Which my dog does every single day of his life.<\/p>\n

Look at the picture below. This is EXACTLY the setting for Waiting for Godot<\/em>.\u00a0 Except the dog\u2019s play is entitled Waiting for Squirrels<\/em>.\u00a0 The whole day goes by and the squirrels never come.\u00a0 Eventually a boy comes by to tell the dog the squirrels aren\u2019t coming today, but maybe tomorrow.<\/p>\n

\"Waiting<\/a>The next day? Theatre of the Absurd, Dog Version, starts all over again.\u00a0 No wonder why I find a ton of empty wine bottles every time I\u2019m in the back yard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Did you ever have to read Waiting for Godot in its original French?!\u00a0 It\u2019s a play in two acts written by Samuel Beckett who is a defining playwright of the movement known as Theatre of the Absurd. The entire play takes place beside a tree and it\u2019s about two guys who are waiting for a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4386"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4386"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4391,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4386\/revisions\/4391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}