"We needed strong swear words, and so I wrote them down," director Roger Blin recalled of the process. Unusually for Beckett, who was to become well known for spelling out precise directions-down to the last pause-this left the actors and director free to work out the exact wording of the insults in rehearsals. The original published manuscript for En attendant Godot indicated this exchange with the stage direction "Echange d'injures" ('they trade insults'). Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot received its first public presentation at the Théâtre de Babylone, Paris in January 1953.Īct 2 of the play contains a celebrated passage in which protagonists Vladimir and Estagon engage in an escalating series of back-and-forth insults-followed by silence and their immediate reconciliation. Annotated first edition, Trinity College Dublin (TCD MS 10495) En attendant Godot pièce en deux acte (Les Éditions de Minuet, 1952).
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