Front Row | Waiting for Godot (black cast)
Based on Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
The first-ever British production of Samuel Beckett's Waiting For Godot with a cast of black actors is about to open at the West Yorkshire Playhouse. Actors Jeffery Kissoon and Patrick Robinson and director Ian Brown reflect on how this casting changes the play.
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Changing Stages | Between Brecht and Beckett
Richard Eyre looks at influence of political and poetic dramas of Berthold Brecht and Samuel Beckett on British playwrights from 1960s to 1990s.
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Witness History | Waiting for Godot
How Samuel Beckett's existentialist masterpiece revolutionised the theatre 60 years ago.