The setting of its first act is "A country road.
This play's author asserted that its action is punctuated by fixed points called Wartestellen. According to James Knowlson's book Damned to Fame, this play was inspired by Caspar David Friedrich's painting Two Old Men Observing the Moon. In 2007, Paul Chan organized an outdoor production of this play in New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward, starring Kyle Manzay and Wendell Pierce. Alan Schneider directed the disastrous American premiere of this play, which starred Tom Ewell and Burt Lahr, took place in Miami, and was billed as "the laugh sensation of two continents." Athol Fugard directed a performance of this play with an all-black cast in Johannesburg in 1962, and Susan Sontag directed a performance of it during the siege of Sarajevo in 1993. This play's author directed a seminal performance of it in 1975 at the Schiller Theatre, and Herbert Blau directed a performance of this play on the gallows of San Quentin in 1957. In one of its stage directions, a character removes a cord holding up his pants, causing them to ? fall down, and in another of its stage directions, its main characters frantically keep snatching their hats from one another. The setting of its first act is "A country road. A tree. Evening." For 10 points, name this "tragicomedy" by Samuel Beckett.
This play's author asserted that its action is punctuated by fixed points called Wartestellen.
{Waiting} for {Godot} [or {En attendant Godot}]