Waiting for Godot is Beckett's translation of his own original French-language play, En attendant Godot, and is subtitled (in English only) ' a tragicomedy in two acts'. Waiting for Godot ( / ˈ ɡ ɒ d oʊ/ GOD-oh) is a play by Samuel Beckett in which two characters, Vladimir (Didi) and Estragon (Gogo), engage in a variety of discussions and encounters while awaiting the titular Godot, who never arrives. Waiting for Godot, staging by Otomar Krejca, Avignon Festival, 1978