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SAMUEL BECKETT’S
WAITING FOR GODOT
A TRAGICOMEDY
Kay and McLean Productions Pty Ltd, Arnold M Crook, Paul Elliott, Nigel Everett and Duncan C Weldon in association with HVK Productions and Michael Coppel present the Theatre Royal Haymarket Company's record-breaking and award-winning production of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot starring Ian McKellen, Roger Rees and Matthew Kelly.
"It is almost certainly the funniest and most compassionate production of the play you will ever see." Daily Telegraph (UK), 2010
Two old friends meet to converse, joke and argue with themselves as they wait through one day and then another for the mysterious Godot...the combination of music hall, poetry and tension redefined what is possible in theatre, so that today Waiting for Godot is accepted as one of the most significant plays of the 20th century.
"Masterly McKellen glitters." London Evening Standard, 2010
Following its record-breaking season last year at the Theatre Royal Haymarket (for both the play and the theatre) Waiting for Godot will conclude its hugely successful return season in the West End before touring to Melbourne (Comedy Theatre), Perth (His Majesty's Theatre), Adelaide (Her Majesty's Theatre), Sydney (as part of the Adventures 2010 Program, Sydney Opera House) and New Zealand from May to July of this year.
When Samuel Beckett's play exploded on to the stage 50 years ago, it shocked as many people as it delighted. There had never been a play like it; indeed it was said that: "(Beckett) has achieved a
theoretical impossibility-a play in which nothing happens, that yet keeps audiences glued to their seats."
"The theatrical event of the year" Daily Express (UK)
Waiting for Godot is directed by Sean Mathias and stars Ian McKellen as Estragon and Roger Rees as Vladamir with Matthew Kelly as Pozzo.
"It’s harrowing, it’s funny, it’s human: go and see it, and laugh till you cry." Time Out (UK), 2010
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