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
Review: Don’t wait to see Waiting for Godot
James Macdonald’s West End production of Samuel Beckett’s existential tragicomedy began its previews last week at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, and will run through to December 14.
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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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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After 10 years in Europe, suburban actress returns to Chicago storefront
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Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter Reunite for Broadway Debut in ‘Waiting for Godot’: A Fresh Take on Beckett’s Classic
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