West End Theatre Breaks
Waiting for Godot is returning after a sellout season at the Haymarket earlier this year, with Ian McKellen and Ronald Pickup reprising their roles and new cast members Roger Rees and Matthew Kelly.
In the National Theatre s NT2000 poll, Samuel Beckett s Waiting for Godot was voted the most significant English language play of the twentieth century. The play tells the story of two tramps Vladimir (Stewart) and Estrago (McKellan) who are waiting for the Titular Godot who never arrives.
Ian McKellen was last seen on stage as Sorin in Chekhov s The Seagull and in the title role of Shakespeare s King Lear, beginning in Stratford before an international tour in 2007. Patrick Stewart recently starred in the sell-out sensation Hamlet alongside David Tennant in Stratford and the West End.
Waiting for Godot returns to the West End this January starring Ian McKellen, Ronald Pickup, Roger Rees and Matthew Kelly. The play, by Samuel Beckett, tells the story of two tramps Vladimir (Rees) and Estrago (McKellan) who are waiting for the Titular Godot who never arrives. The play returns after a sellout season at the Theatre Royal Haymarket earlier this year.
Ian McKellen was last seen on stage as Sorin in Chekhov’s The Seagull and in the title role of Shakespeare’s King Lear, beginning in Stratford before an international tour in 2007.