OK, with a list like that, we sure have our work cut out for us. Drama is an easy one, since the work is a play and the conflict is entirely expressed in emotion-revealing drama. Modernism and surrealism have to do with the play’s lack of real plot and its breaking from narrative traditions. Waiting for Godot is modernist in the sense that it defies classic standards, and it is surrealist in that Vladimir and Estragon’s world has no clear system of logic or rules. Remember that line when Vladimir wonders aloud if he’s sleeping and merely under the illusion of consciousness? That’s surrealism in a nutshell. The label "tragicomedy" is in the title, so good luck arguing with that one. (We meant to say something scholarly and authoritative, like the fact that Gogo and Didi’s exchanges vacillate between the absurdly comic discussions of turnips and the horrible, tragic, vague suspicions that life is meaningless. The bowler hats even remind us of Charlie Chaplin the ultimate tragicomedian.)