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 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
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 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.
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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 underwhelming 'Bluets'
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
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