
VLADIMIR |
[2075] Are you mad? [2076] We must |
ESTRAGON |
[2082] (Looking at the tree)[2083] Pity we haven't got a bit of rope. |
VLADIMIR |
[2084] Come on. [2085] It's getting cold. [2086] (he draws him after him. [2087] As before) |
ESTRAGON |
[2088] Remind me to bring a bit |
VLADIMIR |
[2089] Yes yes. [2090] Come on. [2091] (he draws him after him. [2092] As before) |
ESTRAGON |
[2093] How long have we been together all the time now? |
VLADIMIR |
[2094] I don't know. stand break [2095] Fifty years perhaps. |
ESTRAGON |
[2096] Do you remember the day I threw myself into the Rhone? |
VLADIMIR |
[2097] We were grape harvesting. |
ESTRAGON |
[2098] You fished me out. |
VLADIMIR |
[2099] That's all dead and buried. |
ESTRAGON |
[2100] My clothes dried in the sun. |
VLADIMIR |
[2101] There's no good harking back on that. [2102] Come on. [2102|001] (he draws him after him. [2103] As before) |
ESTRAGON |
[2104] Wait. |
VLADIMIR |
[2105] I'm cold! |
ESTRAGON |
[2105|001] Wait! [2105|002] (he moves away from Vladimir) [2106] I wonder if we wouldn't have been better off alone, each one for himself. [2107] (he crosses the stage and sits down on the mound) [2108] We weren't made for the same road. |
VLADIMIR |
ESTRAGON |
[2111] No, nothing is certain. |
[2111|001] (VLADIMIR slowly crosses the stage and sits down beside Estragon) X down to him hand on sh Sit xxx stump
VLADIMIR |
[2112] We can still part, if you think it would be better. |
ESTRAGON |
[2113] It's too late now. |
[2114] (Silence)

VLADIMIR |
[2115] Yes, it's too late now. |
[2116] (Silence)
ESTRAGON |
[2117] Well, shall we go? |
VLADIMIR |
[2118] Yes, let's go. |
[2119] (They do not move)
[2120] CURTAIN.

[2121] ACT TWO
|
[2122] Next day. [2123] Same time. [2124] Same Place. [2125] Estragon's boots front centre, heels together, toes splayed. [2126] Lucky's hat at same place. [2127] The tree has four or five leaves.
[2128] Enter VLADIMIR |
VLADIMIR |
[2138] A dog came in - [2139] (having begun too high he stops, clears his throat, resumes :)
[2140] A dog came in the kitchen
[2142] Then all the dogs came running [2143] (he stops, broods, resumes:)
[2144] Then all the dogs came running
[2145] A dog came in the kitchen
[2147] Then all the dogs came running [2148] (he stops. [2149] As before)
[2150] Then all the dogs came running [2151] (he stops. [2152] As before. [2153] Softly) [2154] And dug the dog a tomb... [2155] (He remains a moment silent and motionless, then begins to move feverishly about the stage. [2156] He halts again before the tree, comes and goes, before the boots, comes and goes, halts extreme right, gazes into distance, extreme left, gazes into distance. X P(). |

[2157] (Enter ESTRAGON right, barefoot, head bowed.
He slowly crosses the stage. [2158] VLADIMIR
turns and sees him)
VLADIMIR |
[2159] You again! [2160] (ESTRAGON halts, but does not raise his head. [2161] VLADIMIR goes towards him) [2162] Come here till I embrace you. |
ESTRAGON |
[2163] Don't touch me! |
[2164] (VLADIMIR holds back, pained)
VLADIMIR |
[2166] Do you want me to go away? [2167] (pause) [2168] Gogo. [2169] (pause. [2170] VLADIMIR observes him attentively) [2171] Did they beat you? [2172] (pause) [2173] Gogo! X P. [2174] (ESTRAGON remains silent, head bowed)
[2175] Where did you spend the night? |
ESTRAGON |
[2178] Don't touch me! [2179] Don't question me! [2180] Don't speak
to me! [2181] Stay with me! |
VLADIMIR |
[2182] Did I ever leave you? |
ESTRAGON |
[2183] You let me go. |
VLADIMIR |
[2184] Look at me. [2185] (ESTRAGON does not raise his head. [2186] Violently) [2187] Will you look at me! |
[2188] (ESTRAGON raises his head. [2189] They look long at each other, recoiling, advancing, their heads on one side, as before a work of art, trembling towards each other more and more, then suddenly embrace, clapping each other on the back. [2190] End of embrace. [2191] ESTRAGON, no longer supported, almost falls) at tree
ESTRAGON |
[2192] What a day! |
VLADIMIR |
ESTRAGON |
[2195] Another day done with. |
VLADIMIR |
[2196] Not yet. |
ESTRAGON |
[2197] For me it's over and done with, no matter what happens. [2198] (Silence) [2199] I heard you singing. |
VLADIMIR |
[2200] That's right, I remember. |

ESTRAGON |
[2201] That finished me. [2202] I said to myself, He's all alone, he thinks I'm gone for ever, and he sings. |
VLADIMIR |
[2203] One isn't master of one's moods. [2204] All day I've felt in great form. [2205] (pause) [2206] I didn't get up in the night, not once! |
ESTRAGON |
[2207] (Sadly) [2208] You see, you piss better when I'm not there. |
VLADIMIR |
[2209] I missed you...and at the same time I was |
ESTRAGON |
VLADIMIR |
[2214] Perhaps it's not the right word. |
ESTRAGON |
[2215] And now? |
VLADIMIR |
[2217] Now?... [2218] (joyous) Hand on xxx [2219] There you are again... (indifferent) There we are again...[2219|001] (gloomy) [2220] There I am again. |
ESTRAGON |
[2221] You see, you feel worse when I'm with you. [2222] I feel better alone too. |
VLADIMIR |
ESTRAGON |
[2225] I don't know. |
VLADIMIR |
[2226] No, but I do. [2227] It's because you don't know how to take care of yourself. [2228] I wouldn't have let them beat you. |
ESTRAGON |
[2229] You couldn't have stopped them. |
VLADIMIR |
[2230] Why not? |
ESTRAGON |
[2231] There |
VLADIMIR |
[2232] No, I mean before they beat you. I would have stopped you from doing whatever it was you were doing. |
ESTRAGON |
[2233] I wasn't doing anything. |
VLADIMIR |
[2234] Then why did they beat you? |
ESTRAGON |
[2235] I don't know. |
VLADIMIR |
[2236] Ah no, Gogo, the truth is there are things escape you that don't escape me. [2237] You must feel it yourself. |
ESTRAGON |
[2238] I tell you I wasn't doing anything. |
VLADIMIR |
[2239] Perhaps you weren't. [2240] But it's the way of doing it that counts, the way of doing it, if you want to |