Waiting for Godot by Samual Beckett

This play would be interesting as a play but because I read it instead of watched, I really didn't like it. I feel like it was too blatant with too little action and space. The dialogue was overly simple and the repetitive action and stupidity of the characters was irritating. Basically this play was trying to make a statement against religion and the pointlessness of Christianity because sometimes seemingly obvious things become questionable because of the fact that they're waiting for God (or Godot in this case) and aren't sure of what they should be doing when it's plainly clear that such a simple act of helping someone shouldn't require so much deliberation. The two guys (I read this a couple months ago - I forget their names) represented Christians while Pozzo and Lucky represented non-Christians. This existentialist play really exemplified the pointlessness of what they were doing, but at the same time it seemed exactly that - pointless to read/watch. I suffered through it and overall I mean the idea itself was compelling but as a read, it was boring.

As a play (which is what it was meant to be), it would probably do considerably better since the actions that are read are acted out - if played by the right characters, I think the play would actually be pretty funny.