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

The chemistry between actors Richard Heap, Peter Cadden and Michael Keane lend an exhilaration to Beckett’s play. Picture: Sheila Burnett

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, ...