Ben Whishaw, Samuel Beckett and 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 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
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'
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.
Opinion
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,
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.
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.
Waiting for Godot at Theatre Royal Haymarket review: the best staging of this challenging classic I’ve ever seen
Ben Whishaw and Lucian Msamati bring a potent, tragicomic chemistry to James Macdonald’s rich revival of Samuel Beckett’s challenging play. In this keystone of modern drama, derelicts Vladimir and Estragon – described by Beckett as “clowns” – battle against the meaningless of life,
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.
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Waiting for Godot review
Ben Whishaw and Lucian Msamati give precision-tooled performances in a delicate and desolate production of Beckett’s seminal drama It’s waiting time again – but when is it not? Samuel Beckett’s ...
Ben Whishaw throws doubt on his future as Q in the James Bond films
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Waiting for Godot
Samuel Beckett’s most famous work ‘Waiting for Godot’ is set in a limbo in which change never occurs and bickering tramp protagonists Vladimir and Estragon can never move on. And in a weird way the ...
The Stage4dOpinion
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 ...