"Waiting for Godot" is a masterfully minimalist play that allegorically expresses how we all strive to keep at bay the sense of life's ultimate futility. After all, there is only one certainty in our lives: our death.

Often regarded as the seminal work of contemporary drama, the absurdist play was originally written in French in 1948/49 by the 1969 Nobel laureate for literature, Samuel Beckett (1906-89), and it premiered in 1953 at the Theatre de Babylone in Paris, the Irish writer's adopted hometown.

Following its French success, Beckett translated the play into English and it became renowned worldwide. In 1998, nationwide research by the London-based National Theatre in Britain deemed it as the most important English language play of the 20th century.