Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, Theatre Royal, Bath ; First Night Review

Daily Mail (August 26, 2005)

Author: Quentin Letts

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FOR 52 years audiences have been baffled, irritated, intrigued and, less frequently, entertained by Samuel Beckett's absurdist play Waiting for Godot.

In 1955 Peter Hall brought the first Godot to Britain. Sir Peter, as he is today (iconoclasts can seldom resist a gong), now directs a half- century birthday production in Bath.

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Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, Theatre Royal, Bath ; First Night Review

It proves a classical version, if that adjective can be used about a play so bare of...

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