Opposites collide with effect in Beckett’s bleak masterpiece
Despite an occasional falter in pace, director Michael Cabot stylishly mines a script where “blathering about nothing in particular” forms the touchstone
Theatre: Waiting for Godot
Directed by Michael Cabot
The Town Hall Theatre, Galway
Run concluded
Rating****
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the first English-language production of Waiting for Godot. Originally written in French (in 1949), Samuel Beckett’s masterpiece was famously described as “a play in which nothing happens, twice”.
It revolves around two tramps who try to keep the conversation between them going, who recognise that they’re trapped within a play, ...