Ben Whishaw and Lucian Msamati shine in stunning revival of Waiting for Godot – review
Waiting for Godot is one of those plays – the sort that you might have read in English lessons at school, the type that’s revered within theatrical circles as one of the true greats.
Regarded as Irish playwright Samuel Beckett’s masterpiece, a new revival has opened this week on London’s West End, at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, directed by James Macdonald.
Famously it’s a play in which nothing much happens: for two and a half hours we watch as our protagonists Vladimir (Ben Whishaw) and Estragon (Lucian Msamati) find ways to pass the time as they wait, unsurprisingly, for a man named Godot to arrive.
They encounter three characters while they are waiting: Pozzo (Jonathan Slinger), Lucky (Tom Edden) and a boy (multiple actors – on press night we had Alexander Joseph).
