<P> Waiting for Godot has been described as a "metaphor for the long walk into Roussillon, when Beckett and Suzanne slept in haystacks (...) during the day and walked by night (... or) of the relationship of Beckett to Joyce ." Becket told Ruby Cohn that Caspar David Friedrich's painting Two Men Contemplating the Moon, which he saw on his journey to Germany in 1936, was a source for the play . </P> <P> Though the sexuality of Vladimir and Estragon is not always considered by critics, some see the two vagabonds as an ageing homosexual couple, who are worn out, with broken spirits, impotent and not engaging sexually any longer . The two appear to be written as a parody of a married couple . Peter Boxall points out that the play features two characters who seem to have shared life together for years; they quarrel, embrace, and are mutually dependent . Beckett was interviewed at the time the play was premiering in New York, and, speaking of his writings and characters in general, Beckett said "I'm working with impotence, ignorance . I don't think impotence has been exploited in the past ." Vladimir and Estragon consider hanging themselves, as a desperate way to achieve at least one final erection . Pozzo and his slave, Lucky, arrive on the scene . Pozzo is a stout man, who wields a whip and holds a rope around Lucky's neck . Some critics have considered that the relationship of these two characters is homosexual and sado - masochistic in nature . Lucky's long speech is a torrent of broken ideas and speculations regarding man, sex, God, and time . It has been said that the play contains little or no sexual hope; which is the play's lament, and the source of the play's humour and comedic tenderness . Norman Mailer wonders if Beckett might be restating the sexual and moral basis of Christianity, that life and strength is found in an adoration of those in the lower depths where God is concealed . </P> <P> Beckett was not open to most interpretative approaches to his work . He famously objected when, in the 1980s, several women's acting companies began to stage the play . "Women don't have prostates," said Beckett, a reference to the fact that Vladimir frequently has to leave the stage to urinate . </P> <P> In 1988 a Dutch theatre company, De Haarlemse Toneelschuur, put on a production directed by Matin Van Veldhuizen with all female actors, using a French - to - Dutch translation by Jacoba Van Velde . Beckett brought an unsuccessful lawsuit against the theatre company . "The issue of gender seemed to him to be so vital a distinction for a playwright to make that he reacted angrily, instituting a ban on all productions of his plays in The Netherlands ." This ban was short - lived, however: in 1991 (two years after Beckett's death), Judge Huguette Le Foyer de Costil ruled that productions with female casts would not cause excessive damage to Beckett's legacy, and allowed the play to be duly performed by the all - female cast of the Brut de Beton Theater Company at the prestigious Avignon Festival . </P>

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