The Odd couple

Meeting the Other, love and friendship – The Odd Couple

→ Can birds of a different feather can flok together ?

The theme of the Odd Couple wich means a couple of person which isn't usual, wich can mix or not together.

Extract from Waiting for Godot ( 1954 ) by Samuel Beckett 

Extract from Of Mice and Men ( 1937 ) by John Steinbeck

An adaptation : While waiting for Godot directed by Rudi Azank and made with a new york University cast and crew.

I'm going to try to answer the following question : Can birds of a different feather can flok together ? 

First : The theatre of the absurd with Waiting for Godot

then :  a mismatched couple

Finally : the adaptation, While waiting for Godot

I-

● theatre of the absurd during the 20th century → particular plays of absurdist fiction, deals with the human condition and the absurdity of life

● Waiting for godot = two characters who are waiting for someone named Godot

One is pessimist ( Estragon ) and the other is optimist ( Vladimir ) → They are two sides of the same coins, Put together, they form one human being, one single identity

● repetitions « It's not certain » V l.53 - «  Nothing is certain » E l.53

they repeat their own sentence : « Come on » V l.31 ...

● a gap between what the characters say and what they do : « Let's go » V → stage direction, They do not move 

● Godot presented as a man «  mister godot » l.5, ( a servant called Boy who reports Godot's words to the protagonists ). This Godot could be God, his presence is greatly needed

II -

● Farmhands who struggle for a living

● Two characters somehow mismatched but complementary : George and Lennie

G. is obviously mad at Lennie, he's a burden for him → Lennie is like a child / Lennie suggests leaving George alone.

● They evoke a fantasy about the futur : They hope to have their own land, to settle down

Lennie always wants George to tell this story ( like a bedtime story )

III -  

● a web serie :  a cinematic adaptation based on a new translation of Samuel Beckett's original 1948 French manuscript of 'En Attendant Godot' 

● The themes of this classic play echo throughout today's world : social themes, the isolation and desperation of poverty → link between the Great Depression ( Beckett's time ) and the 2009's Great