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Alex Winter calls acting with Keanu Reeves in Waiting for Godot 'trippy and uncommon'

Alex Winter declared working with longtime pal Keanu Reeves in Waiting for Godot as surreal and unusual.

BANG Premier · Apr 23

The play that changed my life: ‘Waiting for Godot revealed that less is more – it made me fearless’

A school production of Samuel Beckett’s masterpiece, with Nigel Planer in the cast, provided a lesson in forgetting about failure

The Guardian - UK · Oct 22, 2025

Waiting for Godot review – Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter’s unlikely reunion

Bill & Ted stars land on Broadway for Jamie Lloyd’s disorienting and intermittently engaging take on Samuel Beckett’s classic

The Guardian - US · Sep 29, 2025

The Swimmer, Russian thugs, Jesus’ feet: Anne Carson’s lyrical, surreal new work strategically pricks literary seriousness

Wrong Norma, the latest collection of writings (and drawings and facsimiles) by the feted Canadian poet Anne Carson, is a work full of allusions, quotations, references, parody and other forms of stylised evocation.

The Conversation · May 23, 2024

The Guardian view on class in Britain: the government doesn’t want to talk about it

Editorial: Social mobility is being redefined because the Conservatives need election-ready political narratives

The Guardian - UK · Sep 14, 2023

The week in theatre: As You Like It; Tambo & Bones; Stumped – review

Seasoned actors turn Shakespeare’s romcom on its head in an enchanted RSC production; US race relations meet Waiting for Godot; and at the crease with Beckett and Pinter

The Guardian - UK · Jul 2, 2023

Ukraine's long-awaited counteroffensive has finally begun - but why now and to what end?

A few days into the news that the Ukrainian army has recaptured territorities from the Russian occupying forces, Kyiv’s counteroffensive still has plenty to intrigue us. Announced in autumn 2022, this summer 2023 campaign has been a long time coming. So much so that it almost came to seem like…

The Conversation · Jun 14, 2023

Big banks will take crypto mainstream—if they ever show up

Every year, the crypto industry predicts that big banks will enter the market—but, years later, everyone is still waiting.

Fortune · Apr 14, 2023

Waiting for COVID

People just get it, no one really knows from whom or where

The Hindu · Jul 16, 2022

The case of the acclaimed South African novel that 'borrows' from Samuel Beckett

Pereant qui ante nos nostra dixerunt: may those who utter our words before us perish. This lighthearted Latin curse speaks a truth many readers and writers have felt: to have our thoughts articulated by someone else.

The Conversation · Jul 4, 2022