Waiting for Godot

Here are some versions of Waiting for Godot over the years.  The first was performed at Purdue University by The Classical Theater of Harlem.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1NL9OvbwNc&feature=fvsr

For more about this company, see this link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvJC_ULKC2M&feature=related

This television text version is from 1987, so it was done while Samuel Beckett was still alive.  In fact, it was filmed in Paris where he lived.  (By the way, although Beckett was born in Ireland and his first language was English, Waiting for Godot, like all of his works, was written in French.  Beckett was his own translator.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMz1-Kgz_DI

This next version is from 2001 and appeared on the UK's Channel 4 (as opposed to the BBC).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDjgThErfIM

Recently Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Patrick Stewart appeared in Waiting for Godot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmiYSBJ54Io&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu_4z0AGgKo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anez-ch-OAE&feature=related

Was it a tragedy?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dm96MZS48lA&feature=related

Or a comedy?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktSU8As66LE&feature=related

The version below appears to be in Spanish

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90IIzQ7gIR0&feature=related

Interestingly, I can find many versions in Spanish but none in French!

A Taiwanese troupe recently performed Godot in Paris.

Read more about this performance!

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/lang/archives/2011/04/28/2003501839

For more about McKellen and Stewart's version, see the links below.  Let's start with some articles from McKellen's own site:

http://www.mckellen.com/stage/godot/081031.htm

http://www.mckellen.com/stage/godot/index.htm

The Guardian's Michael Billington's review is below:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2009/may/07/waiting-for-godot-theatre-review

The Observer's Susannah Clapp disagrees:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/may/10/waiting-for-godot-haymarket?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487

Bill Irwin and Nathan Lane performed Waiting for Godot in NYC:

http://theater.nytimes.com/2009/05/01/theater/reviews/01godo.html

Neil Genzlinger reviews The Classical Theater of Harlem's Waiting for Godot.  This version is set in New Orleans after Katrina.

http://theater.nytimes.com/2006/06/03/theater/reviews/03godo.html