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Evening Standard
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Nick Curtis

Waiting for Godot at Theatre Royal Haymarket review: the best staging of this challenging classic I’ve ever seen

Ben Whishaw and Lucian Msamati bring a potent, tragicomic chemistry to James Macdonald’s rich revival of Samuel Beckett’s challenging play.

In this keystone of modern drama, derelicts Vladimir and Estragon – described by Beckett as “clowns” – battle against the meaningless of life, waiting in a blasted landscape for a man they don’t know, who never comes.

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