Subtitled 'A tragicomedy in two Acts', and famously described by the Irish critic Vivien Mercier as a play in which 'nothing happens, twice', _En attendant Godot_ was first performed at the Théâtre de Babylone in Paris in 1953. It was translated into English by Samuel Beckett, and _Waiting for __Godot_ opened at the Arts Theatre in London in 1955. 'Go and see _Waiting for Godot_. At the worst you will discover a curiosity, a four-leaved clover, a black tulip; at the best something that will securely lodge in a corner of your mind for as long as you live.' Harold Hobson, 7 August 1955 'I told him that if by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not Godot. This seemed to disappoint him greatly.' Samuel Beckett, 1955