Ben Whishaw, Samuel Beckett
Opinion
Waiting for Godot review: Ben Whishaw finds joy in Samuel Beckett’s wondrous misery
Waiting for Godot has been called ‘the play of the century,’ but that accolade doesn’t make staging Samuel Beckett’s most significant piece easy. The Irish playwright, who died in 1989, banned tampering with the set or script in adaptations.
Waiting for Godot review: Ben Whishaw brings Paddington-esque wistfulness to Samuel Beckett’s tragicomedy
Whishaw and Lucian Msamati do well to fill the shoes of Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart who last starred in the West End production 15 years ago
Waiting for owners: former Chelsea home of Samuel Beckett for sale for £5.5m
Paultons Square has been home to two Nobel Prize winners: dramatist Samuel Beckett, who lived there in 1934, and physicist Patrick Blackett from 1953 to 1969
Waiting for Godot with Lucian Msamati and Ben Whishaw – West End review
It’s almost seventy years since the 1955 premiere of Waiting for Godot in Britain, when it was greeted with boredom and incomprehension. Yet in this new production starring Lucian Msamati and Ben Whishaw as the two tramps Estragon and Vladimir, Samuel Beckett’s first masterpiece gleams more brightly than ever.
Five stars for a stunning Waiting for Godot with Ben Whishaw and Lucian Msamati — theatre review
James Macdonald captures the play’s emotional depth and its political power at London’s Theatre Royal Haymarket
If you think you don’t like Waiting for Godot, Ben Whishaw will prove you wrong
It is thrilling to have the opportunity to study this incomparable and mercurial actor live once again, after the underwhelming 'Bluets'
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Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter Reunite for Broadway Debut in ‘Waiting for Godot’: A Fresh Take on Beckett’s Classic
In an exciting development for theater enthusiasts, Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter are set to take the Broadway stage together ...
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Samuel Beckett’s to host 10th annual Celtic Festival in Shirlington
Late September marks the halfway point to St. Patrick's Day, and in Shirlington, it also means the return of the neighborhood ...
Walking in Samuel Beckett’s footsteps: In some mysterious way, the landscape captures the soul of the artist
As Belaqua observes in Love and Lethe in More Pricks Than Kicks: ...
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Waiting for Godot
The curtain rises on a barren landscape with a single tree, leafless. Rae Smith’s setting, a chopped-off piece of tree, ...
Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker Apologizes After Bullying Accusations
Dancers said De Keersmaeker, a “godmother of contemporary dance,” ran her company in a tyrannical style that endangered staff ...
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After 10 years in Europe, suburban actress returns to Chicago storefront
As a young actress, Anne Trodden didn’t care about fame. She cared about doing work that made her proud. And Chicago was a ...
Sally Rooney is a great political writer – her new novel is proof
Sally Rooney seems like a contradictory idea. On the one hand, you have the woman – now 33, in rural Ireland – who’s ...
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Ruth Negga to star in new show at the Barbican – with musical instruments played by swords
Academy Award-nominated actor Ruth Negga will lead the world premiere of Quiet Songs by Finn Beames and Company, a new music ...