Waiting for Godot
- By:
- Samuel Beckett
- Management:
- Theatre Royal Haymarket Company in partnership with Duncan C Weldon Productions Ltd
- Cast:
- Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Simon Callow, Ronald Pickup
- Director:
- Sean Mathias
- Design:
- Stephen Brimson Lewis
- Lighting:
- Paul Pyant
Production information can change over the run of the show.
Search Amazon for Waiting for Godot items Search for tickets at TicketmasterNearly 55 years since its English-language premiere at the then-experimental Arts Theatre, we are still waiting for Godot. Even though Beckett's play has now been so fully absorbed into the canon that it now appears at no less than that ultimate bastion of theatrical conventionality, the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, its mysteries and wonders still run deep, as does its dark vein of nihilistic humour about the pointlessness of human existence and the point of killing time as we contemplate it. Meanwhile, the Arts itself has paradoxically found a more mainstream way of marking the passage of time, in every sense, with its retro sixties revue, Shout!...
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