Waiting for Godot
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened May 6, 2009
Closed Aug 9, 2009
Opened May 6, 2009
Closed Aug 9, 2009
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Sean Mathias directs Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot.
The play follows two consecutive days in the lives of tramps, Vladimir (Patrick Stewart) and Estragon (Ian McKellen), who divert themselves by clowning around, joking and arguing, while waiting expectantly and unsuccessfully for the mysterious Godot.
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Theatre Royal Haymarket
Haymarket
London, England
Opened 29 Dec 1720. Closed in 1737 (partly for attacking the government), re-opened 1747. The current theatre opened on 4th July 1821 and was designed by Nash. Society of London Theatre member.
Haymarket
London, England
Opened 29 Dec 1720. Closed in 1737 (partly for attacking the government), re-opened 1747. The current theatre opened on 4th July 1821 and was designed by Nash. Society of London Theatre member.
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Sean Mathias' new production of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, which arrives at the Theatre Royal Haymarket after a successful national tour, brings together two of Britain's best actors, Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen. The result is an accessible if sometimes superficial intrepretation of this modern masterwork.
Mathias has chosen to ramp up the music hall aspect so that Vladimir and Estragon feel like two old showmen. The vaudeville quality is emphasized further by Stephen Brimson Lewis's set, which echoes the Haymarket theatre's existing proscenium arch -- although his is crumbling in a state of decay and disrepair. The stage is littered with fallen masonry on which Vladimir and E[...]