Subtitled 'A tragicomedy in two Acts', and famously described by the Irish criti c Vivien Mercier as a play in which 'nothing happens, twice', En attendant Godot was first performed at the Theatre de Babylone in Paris in 1953. It was transla ted into English by Samuel Beckett, and Waiting for Godot opened at the Arts The atre in London in 1955. 'Go and see Waiting for Godot. At the worst you will dis cover a curiosity, a four-leaved clover, a black tulip; at the best something th at 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