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Waiting for Godot: Ben Whishaw is hilarious, with shoulders-high passive aggression. On a hostile graphite-grey stage, Estragon can’t get his shoe off.
Here Whishaw, gentle of voice as ever, teams up to form a fine double act with Lucian Msamati; he is Vladimir, or Didi, and Msamati is Estragon, Gogo, and this pair of roadside philosophers are ...
Whishaw’s tremendous Vladimir is part man-child, part strident philosopher, part Pollyanna, his sparrow-like brightness barely concealing a desperate need to cling on to the certainty that Godot ...
Waiting for Godot: Ben Whishaw is hilarious, with shoulders-high passive aggression. On a hostile graphite-grey stage, Estragon can’t get his shoe off.
Waiting for Godot – a delightful double-act. Ben Whishaw is best known for voicing the character of Paddington and starring as Q in the past few James Bond films, but the 43-year-old actor has a ...
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.
Lucian Msamati and Ben Whishaw in ‘Waiting for Godot’ (Marc Brenner) A brooding cloud of torpor hangs thickly above Samuel Beckett ’s revolutionary 1953 classic, one that’s famous for its ...
Exclusive: Rehearsal photos have been released ahead of the new revival of Samuel Beckett’s seminal play Waiting for Godot. The piece revolves around Didi and Gogo, who anxiously await the arrival of ...
Ben Whishaw and Lucian Msamati lead a vital new production of Samuel Beckett's most famous play, Waiting for Godot. Skip to content CityAM. Main navigation Search for: Submit.
Samuel Beckett's seminal play is back in the West End for the first time in 15 years, but how do the reviewers rate James Macdonald’s starry revival? Fergus Morgan rounds up the reviews.
Waiting for Godot review and star rating: ★★★★ Waiting for Godot has been called ‘the play of the 20th century,’ but that accolade doesn’t make staging Samuel Beckett’s most significant piece easy.