WAITING FOR GODOT, Theatre Royal Haymarket
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
Waiting for Godot at Theatre Royal Haymarket review: the best staging of this challenging classic I’ve ever seen
Waiting for Godot at Theatre Royal Haymarket review: the best staging of this challenging classic I’ve ever seen - 4/5 Ben Whishaw and Lucian Msamati take this production to a whole new level
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Waiting for Godot, Theatre Royal Haymarket: Tremendous Ben Whishaw leads a night of plentiful horrors
For a play that plumbs the fathomless Godless tedium of existence, Beckett’s evasive 1952 masterpiece is surprisingly commercially resilient. Fifteen years ago Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart starred as the two ragged tramps in this very same theatre,
Review: WAITING FOR GODOT, Theatre Royal Haymarket
A country road. A tree. Evening. Two figures commiserate with each other’s woes. “Nothing to be done”. We have to wait 35 years to receive a really revolutionary new take on Waiting for Godot: Samuel Beckett’s estate still has too much power over any revival of the 20th century classic.
Ben Whishaw and Lucian Msamati unravel Waiting for Godot and explain “radish junction” on West End opening night
The seminal Samuel Beckett classic is back at the Theatre Royal Haymarket! Last night the theatre world turned its spotlight to the Haymarket, where James Macdonald’s revival of Waiting for Godot celebrated its official opening night.
Waiting For Godot – Theatre Royal Haymarket | Review
Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot is directed by James Macdonald, starring Lucian Msamati as Estragon and Ben Whishaw as Vladimir with Tom Edden as Lucky and Jonathan Slinger as Pozzo.
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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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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Star names can make ‘difficult’ plays like Waiting for Godot easier to sell – that’s no bad thing
Describing a play as complex is not a theatre marketing department’s dream, so if stars – who are also great actors – can ...