Boesman and Lena | The Similarities and Differences Between Boesman and Lena and Waiting for Godot
In this essay the author examines the similarities and differences between Fugard's Boesman and Lena and Samuel Beckett's Absurdist "tragicomedy" Waiting for Godot.
There is a moment in Athol Fugard's poetic drama Boesman and Lena when the desperate, road-weary Lena begs her traveling companion to please listen to her, and to help her remember all the filthy, ramshackle places they have been, and the order in which they visited them. "What difference does it make?’’ the angry Boesman challenges her, ‘‘To anything? You're here now!’’
Their debate—as much a matter of metaphysics as geography—is the central conflict in the play. Lena is on a quest to discover her identity, which has been stolen or masked by a...
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