Waiting for Godot *** TNT
Film veterans Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen make an impressive double act in this music-hall influenced revival of Beckett’s existentialist tragi-comedy in which, as someone famously quipped, “nothing happens, twice”.
Director Sean Mathias has added comic sound effects and a crumbling theatre set, but it’s McKellen’s poignant performance as a doddery, bewildered Estragon which provides the bleak humanity at the core of this 1950s classic.
Theatre Royal Haymarket, Haymarket, SW1Y 4HT, Piccadilly Circus (0845 481 1870). Until Jul 26. £10-£47.50
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