James Macdonald captures the play’s emotional depth and its political power at London’s Theatre Royal Haymarket ...

Waiting for Godot has been called ‘the play of the century,’ but that accolade doesn’t make staging Samuel Beckett’s most ...

It is thrilling to have the opportunity to study this incomparable and mercurial actor live once again, after the ...

For a play that plumbs the fathomless Godless tedium of existence, Beckett’s evasive 1952 masterpiece is surprisingly ...

Whishaw and Lucian Msamati do well to fill the shoes of Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart who last starred in the West End ...

Written in the late Forties, premiered in Paris in 1953 and London in 1955 (where it won Most Controversial Play at the first ...

It’s almost seventy years since the 1955 premiere of Waiting for Godot in Britain, when it was greeted with boredom and ...

The seminal Samuel Beckett classic is back at the Theatre Royal Haymarket! Last night the theatre world turned its spotlight ...

The curtain rises on a barren landscape with a single tree, leafless. Rae Smith’s setting, a chopped-off piece of tree, ...

A country road. A tree. Evening. Two figures commiserate with each other’s woes. “Nothing to be done”. We have to wait 35 ...

Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot is directed by James Macdonald, starring Lucian Msamati as Estragon and Ben Whishaw as ...

Ben Whishaw and Lucian Msamati give precision-tooled performances in a delicate and desolate production of Samuel Beckett’s seminal drama ...