Godot Awaits
Evening. Godot and Miko sit in the shade of a fig tree.
GODOT: No sign of life. Perhaps I fell asleep
Again. What's to be done? This was the place
I'm sure.
MIKO: I'm sick of figs! As if I care
Where they are now. I've lost the will to hope.
GODOT: Where have they gone? This was the rendezvous.
MIKO: If you say so. Maybe a tiger came
And swallowed them. That's it! They've come to harm.
GODOT: I promised them I'd wait. No need for you
To stay if that's the way you feel. Fig Off!
MIKO: Don't be like that. You'd miss me if I left:
Lonely, forsaken, abandoned. Bereft.
GODOT: Another moon. We've waited long enough.
Pause.
GODOT: Perhaps another day. The best laid schemes.....
MIKO: What's the odds they exist? Outside your dreams?
Silence.
Curtain.
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Comments: 15
Excellent, Mike, makes me want the next one :)
Definitely catches one's attention
*wanting to turn the page*
Thanks.
Excellent writing!
For me, Mike, I am wildly excited. This is a completely new format for writing poetry. Okay, okay, I'm talking in its contemporary voice, Shakespeare is *something ELSE*.
Mind if I copy you?
Mike, you and Beckett would have made quite a pair! I had been thinking of Godot, since the new revivial on Broadway has received excellent reviews. It's been fun to read about the show's very first reviews, and I know it's just opened in London with one of my favorite actors, Simon Callow. Excellent work, short-circuiting all that blather in just a few stanzas!
haha lovely
Thanks for the generous comments.
Of course I don't mind if you write in the same vein, Susan. The verse-play has virtually disappeared. Christopher Fry wrote verse plays - in the Fifties, I think, and of course TS Eliot wrote 'Murder in the Cathedral'.
There must be a reason why they've virtually disappeared, though. On the whole it's probably better to try and capture the natural rhythms of authentic-sounding speech - but maybe there'd be a small market for this kind of thing. BBC Radio 3 for instance.
:) Fig off! Hahahha...
Wait, that's the end? More, more!
Patty - haha. Thanks.
Andrea - Sir Ian McKellan and the estimable Patrick Stewart are having a great time with Simon Callow. Some reviewers have criticized them for playing for laughs a little too much, but I think Beckett took himself rather less seriously than some of his readers.
Pretty cool. I love it!
Thanks for posting to my group, Anythingwriting
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Ah radio 3! I love it.
Jan - thanks for the Feature.
Yes, Sheila - I'm beginning to listen to Radio 3 more often these days, especially in my car, but we always wake up to the Today program on Radio 4.
As always, Mike... I am never disappointed in your work. Excellent!