'Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful.' This line, fromthe play, was adopted by Jean Anouilh, to characterize the firstproduction of Waiting For Godot at the Theatre de Babylone, in 1953. Hewent on to predict that the play would, in time, represent the mostimportant premiere to be staged in Paris for forty years. Nobodyacquainted with Beckett's masterly black comedy would now question thisprescient recognition of a classic of twentieth-century literature.