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Lucian Msamati (Game of Thrones) and Ben Whishaw (Paddington ) star alongside Tom Edden (Crazy For You) and Jonathan Slinger (title roles in Richard II and Richard III in RSC Histories) in a landmark new production of Samuel Beckett’s towering masterpiece WAITING FOR GODOT, from multi award-winning director James Macdonald (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?).

Didi and Gogo wait by a tree for a man named Godot. They don’t know who he is, why they are meeting or what time he is coming – only that something incredible could happen when he does…

Witty and absurd, poignant and profound, WAITING FOR GODOT’s timeless take on what it means to be human makes it one of the defining works of the 20th century.

Don’t miss the play that changed the rules. WAITING FOR GODOT is now playing at the historic Theatre Royal Haymarket for a strictly limited run.

‘The best staging of this classic I’ve ever seen’

Evening Standard

‘Superb new production with stunning performances from Lucian Msamati and Ben Whishaw’

Financial Times

‘Utterly compelling. You find yourself mesmerised’ 

The Times

‘I left the venue feeling this really is the best Godot I’ve ever seen’

The Arts Desk

‘A classic, brilliantly revived’

Daily Express

‘Msamati and Whishaw shine in Macdonald’s tender take on Beckett’s existential masterpiece’

Time Out

‘Samuel Beckett’s masterpiece gleams more brightly than ever.’

WhatsOnStage

‘Tragic, absorbing and oddly comforting’

The Stage

‘A bitter tragicomic farce. Deeply philosophical but also genuinely funny’

Broadway World

‘Waiting For Godot proves to be as searingly relevant as ever’

City A.M.

‘As good as it gets’

Daily Mail

‘Still waiting to see your first Godot? Make it this one!’

Mail On Sunday

‘The ingenious James Macdonald directs a terrific cast’

Observer