Review | Absorbing and heart-wrenching, Ben Whishaw and Lucian Msamati are perfect in beautifully staged production of Waiting For Godot
WAITING FOR GODOT, THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET, LONDON * * * * *
On a barren landscape, made interesting only by a rock and a tree that is devoid of leaves, Estragon and Vladimir meet to wait… and wait… and wait for the illusive Godot. So begins Samuel Beckett’s Waiting For Godot, a play that, after its premiere on 5 January 1953, was considered to have changed the rules of theatre forever – it was later described by one Beckett scholar as ‘a play in which nothing happens, that yet keeps audiences glued to their seats’.