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1、【剧本】等待戈多（英文版） Waiting for Godot tragicomedy in 2 acts By Samuel Beckett Estragon Vladimir Lucky Pozzo a boy ACT I A country road. A tree. Evening. Estragon, sitting on a low mound, is trying to take off his boot. He pulls at it with both hands, panting. He gives up, exhausted, rests, tries again. As
2、 before. Enter Vladimir. ESTRAGON: (giving up again). Nothing to be done. VLADIMIR: (advancing with short, stiff strides, legs wide apart). Im beginning to come round to that opinion. All my life Ive tried to put it from me, saying Vladimir, be reasonable, you havent yet tried everything. And I resu
3、med the struggle. (He broods, musing on the struggle. Turning to Estragon.) So there you are again. ESTRAGON: Am I? VLADIMIR: Im glad to see you back. I thought you were gone forever. ESTRAGON: Me too. VLADIMIR: Together again at last! Well have to celebrate this. But how? (He reflects.) Get up till
4、 I embrace you. ESTRAGON: (irritably). Not now, not now. VLADIMIR: (hurt, coldly). May one inquire where His Highness spent the night? ESTRAGON: In a ditch. VLADIMIR: (admiringly). A ditch! Where? ESTRAGON: (without gesture). Over there. VLADIMIR: And they didnt beat you? ESTRAGON: Beat me? Certainl
5、y they beat me. VLADIMIR: The same lot as usual? ESTRAGON: The same? I dont know. VLADIMIR: When I think of it . . . all these years . . . but for me . . . where would you be . . . (Decisively.) Youd be nothing more than a little heap of bones at the present minute, no doubt about it. ESTRAGON: And
6、what of it? VLADIMIR: (gloomily). Its too much for one man. (Pause. Cheerfully.) On the other hand whats the good of losing heart now, thats what I say. We should have thought of it a million years ago, in the nineties. ESTRAGON: Ah stop blathering and help me off with this bloody thing. VLADIMIR: H
7、and in hand from the top of the Eiffel Tower, among the first. We were respectable in those days. Now its too late. They wouldnt even let us up. (Estragon tears at his boot.) What are you doing? ESTRAGON: Taking off my boot. Did that never happen to you? VLADIMIR: Boots must be taken off every day,
8、Im tired telling you that. Why dont you listen to me? ESTRAGON: (feebly). Help me! VLADIMIR: It hurts? ESTRAGON: (angrily). Hurts! He wants to know if it hurts! VLADIMIR: (angrily). No one ever suffers but you. I dont count. Id like to hear what youd say if you had what I have. ESTRAGON: It hurts? V
9、LADIMIR: (angrily). Hurts! He wants to know if it hurts! ESTRAGON: (pointing). You might button it all the same. VLADIMIR: (stooping). True. (He buttons his fly.) Never neglect the little things of life. ESTRAGON: What do you expect, you always wait till the last moment. VLADIMIR: (musingly). The la
10、st moment . . . (He meditates.) Hope deferred maketh the something sick, who said that? ESTRAGON: Why dont you help me? VLADIMIR: Sometimes I feel it coming all the same. Then I go all queer. (He takes off his hat, peers inside it, feels about inside it, shakes it, puts it on again.) How shall I say
11、? Relieved and at the same time . . . (he searches for the word) . . . appalled. (With emphasis.) AP-PALLED. (He takes off his hat again, peers inside it.) Funny. (He knocks on the crown as though to dislodge a foreign body, peers into it again, puts it on again.) Nothing to be done. (Estragon with
12、a supreme effort succeeds in pulling off his boot. He peers inside it, feels about inside it, turns it upside down, shakes it, looks on the ground to see if anything has fallen out, finds nothing, feels inside it again, staring sightlessly before him.) Well? ESTRAGON: Nothing. VLADIMIR: Show me. EST
13、RAGON: Theres nothing to show. VLADIMIR: Try and put it on again. ESTRAGON: (examining his foot). Ill air it for a bit. VLADIMIR: Theres man all over for you, blaming on his boots the faults of his feet. (He takes off his hat again, peers inside it, feels about inside it, knocks on the crown, blows
14、into it, puts it on again.) This is getting alarming. (Silence. Vladimir deep in thought, Estragon pulling at his toes.) One of the thieves was saved. (Pause.) Its a reasonable percentage. (Pause.) Gogo. ESTRAGON: What? VLADIMIR: Suppose we repented. ESTRAGON: Repented what? VLADIMIR: Oh . . . (He r
15、eflects.) We wouldnt have to go into the details. ESTRAGON: Our being born? Vladimir breaks into a hearty laugh which he immediately stifles, his hand pressed to his pubis, his face contorted. VLADIMIR: One darent even laugh any more. ESTRAGON: Dreadful privation. VLADIMIR: Merely smile. (He smiles
16、suddenly from ear to ear, keeps smiling, ceases as suddenly.) Its not the same thing. Nothing to be done. (Pause.) Gogo. ESTRAGON: (irritably). What is it? VLADIMIR: Did you ever read the Bible? ESTRAGON: The Bible . . . (He reflects.) I must have taken a look at it. VLADIMIR: Do you remember the Go
17、spels? ESTRAGON: I remember the maps of the Holy Land. Coloured they were. Very pretty. The Dead Sea was pale blue. The very look of it made me thirsty. Thats where well go, I used to say, thats where well go for our honeymoon. Well swim. Well be happy. VLADIMIR: You should have been a poet. ESTRAGO
18、N: I was. (Gesture towards his rags.) Isnt that obvious? Silence. VLADIMIR: Where was I . . . Hows your foot? ESTRAGON: Swelling visibly. VLADIMIR: Ah yes, the two thieves. Do you remember the story? ESTRAGON: No. VLADIMIR: Shall I tell it to you? ESTRAGON: No. VLADIMIR: Itll pass the time. (Pause.)
19、 Two thieves, crucified at the same time as our Saviour. One? ESTRAGON: Our what? VLADIMIR: Our Saviour. Two thieves. One is supposed to have been saved and the other . . . (he searches for the contrary of saved) . . . damned. ESTRAGON: Saved from what? VLADIMIR: Hell. ESTRAGON: Im going. He does no
20、t move. VLADIMIR: And yet . . . (pause) . . . how is it 杢his is not boring you I hope?how is it that of the four Evangelists only one speaks of a thief being saved. The four of them were there 杘r thereabouts?and only one speaks of a thief being saved. (Pause.) Come on, Gogo, return the ball, cant yo
21、u, once in a while? ESTRAGON: (with exaggerated enthusiasm). I find this really most extraordinarily interesting. VLADIMIR: One out of four. Of the other three, two dont mention any thieves at all and the third says that both of them abused him. ESTRAGON: Who? VLADIMIR: What? ESTRAGON: Whats all thi
22、s about? Abused who? VLADIMIR: The Saviour. ESTRAGON: Why? VLADIMIR: Because he wouldnt save them. ESTRAGON: From hell? VLADIMIR: Imbecile! From death. ESTRAGON: I thought you said hell. VLADIMIR: From death, from death. ESTRAGON: Well what of it? VLADIMIR: Then the two of them must have been damned
23、. ESTRAGON: And why not? VLADIMIR: But one of the four says that one of the two was saved. ESTRAGON: Well? They dont agree and thats all there is to it. VLADIMIR: But all four were there. And only one speaks of a thief being saved. Why believe him rather than the others? ESTRAGON: Who believes him?
24、VLADIMIR: Everybody. Its the only version they know. ESTRAGON: People are bloody ignorant apes. He rises painfully, goes limping to extreme left, halts, gazes into distance off with his hand screening his eyes, turns, goes to extreme right, gazes into distance. Vladimir watches him, then goes and pi
25、cks up the boot, peers into it, drops it hastily. VLADIMIR: Pah! He spits. Estragon moves to center, halts with his back to auditorium. ESTRAGON: Charming spot. (He turns, advances to front, halts facing auditorium.) Inspiring prospects. (He turns to Vladimir.) Lets go. VLADIMIR: We cant. ESTRAGON:
26、Why not? VLADIMIR: Were waiting for Godot. ESTRAGON: (despairingly). Ah! (Pause.) Youre sure it was here? VLADIMIR: What? ESTRAGON: That we were to wait. VLADIMIR: He said by the tree. (They look at the tree.) Do you see any others? ESTRAGON: What is it? VLADIMIR: I dont know. A willow. ESTRAGON: Wh
27、ere are the leaves? VLADIMIR: It must be dead. ESTRAGON: No more weeping. VLADIMIR: Or perhaps its not the season. ESTRAGON: Looks to me more like a bush. VLADIMIR: A shrub. ESTRAGON: A bush. VLADIMIR: A? What are you insinuating? That weve come to the wrong place? ESTRAGON: He should be here. VLADI
28、MIR: He didnt say for sure hed come. ESTRAGON: And if he doesnt come? VLADIMIR: Well come back tomorrow. ESTRAGON: And then the day after tomorrow. VLADIMIR: Possibly. ESTRAGON: And so on. VLADIMIR: The point is? ESTRAGON: Until he comes. VLADIMIR: Youre merciless. ESTRAGON: We came here yesterday.
29、VLADIMIR: Ah no, there youre mistaken. ESTRAGON: What did we do yesterday? VLADIMIR: What did we do yesterday? ESTRAGON: Yes. VLADIMIR: Why . . . (Angrily.) Nothing is certain when youre about. ESTRAGON: In my opinion we were here. VLADIMIR: (looking round). You recognize the place? ESTRAGON: I didn
30、t say that. VLADIMIR: Well? ESTRAGON: That makes no difference. VLADIMIR: All the same . . . that tree . . . (turning towards auditorium) that bog . . . ESTRAGON: Youre sure it was this evening? VLADIMIR: What? ESTRAGON: That we were to wait. VLADIMIR: He said Saturday. (Pause.) I think. ESTRAGON: Y
31、ou think. VLADIMIR: I must have made a note of it. (He fumbles in his pockets, bursting with miscellaneous rubbish.) ESTRAGON: (very insidious). But what Saturday? And is it Saturday? Is it not rather Sunday? (Pause.) Or Monday? (Pause.) Or Friday? VLADIMIR: (looking wildly about him, as though the
32、date was inscribed in the landscape). Its not possible! ESTRAGON: Or Thursday? VLADIMIR: Whatll we do? ESTRAGON: If he came yesterday and we werent here you may be sure he wont come again today. VLADIMIR: But you say we were here yesterday. ESTRAGON: I may be mistaken. (Pause.) Lets stop talking for a minute, do you mind? VLADIMIR: (feebly). All right. (Estragon sits down on the mound. Vladimir paces agitatedly to and fro, halting from time to time to g