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 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 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
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.
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'
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 review
Ben Whishaw and Lucian Msamati give precision-tooled performances in a delicate and desolate production of Samuel Beckett’s seminal drama
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Waiting for Godot, Theatre Royal Haymarket: Tremendous Ben Whishaw leads a night of plentiful horrors
Hence James MacDonald’s revival with the less obvious, if no less magnetic star billing of Ben Whishaw and Lucian Msamati ... This is a Godot as spiritual allegory, as political parable ...
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Video: Watch the Trailer for WAITING FOR GODOT Starring Lucian Msamati and Ben Whishaw
Didi and Gogo wait by a tree for a man named Godot. They don’t know who he is, why they are meeting or what time he is coming – only that something incredible could happen when he does ...