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Waiting for Godot: a new production

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Jonathan Slinger (Pozzo) and Tom Edden (Lucky) invite Karen Hart into the rehearsal room to discuss a new production of the much-studied Waiting for Godot. Together, they muse on the play's ambiguity and how to encourage young people into the theatre.
Lucian Msamati and Ben Whishaw in rehearsal for Waiting for Godot © MARC BRENNER

Evening. A barren road. A tree.

Waiting for Godot, Beckett's first – and probably most accessible – work is, as I write this, in final rehearsals for a new production by award-winning director James Macdonald.

Macdonald has a reputation for enticing great actors to his productions and the cast he's assembled here is a dream. Starring Ben Whishaw (James Bond, Paddington) as Vladimir, Lucian Msamati (Game of Thrones, Amadeus) as Estragon, with Tom Edden (Crazy For You, Cyrano De Bergerac) as Lucky and Jonathan Slinger (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Richard II and Richard III) as Pozzo, the stage has been set for an inspired interpretation.

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