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Waiting for Godot West End

Waiting for Godot 2024

Ages: 12+
Opened: December 17, 2024
Closing: December 21, 2024

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Theatre Royal Haymarket
18 Suffolk Street London SW1Y 4HT London

Lucian Msamati and Ben Whishaw star in one of the greatest plays of the 20th century – Samuel Beckett’s masterpiece, Waiting for Godot, directed by James Macdonald.



Didi and Gogo wait by a tree for a man named Godot. They don’t know who he is, why they are meeting or what time he is coming – only that something incredible could happen when he does...



“Let us do something, while we have the chance…at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it before it is too late!”



Don’t miss the play that changed the rules. Waiting for Godot opens at the historic Theatre Royal Haymarket for a strictly limited season from September 2024.



__Filmed Performances__


November 13th 2.30pm

November 20th 2.30pm & 7.30pm


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by BWW Awards - Dec 23, 2024


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by Chloe Rabinowitz - Dec 17, 2024


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by BWW Awards - Dec 16, 2024


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by Chloe Rabinowitz - Dec 12, 2024


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by Stephi Wild - Dec 10, 2024


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Review: WAITING FOR GODOT at Corrib Theatre
by Krista Garver - Dec 5, 2024


What did our critic think of WAITING FOR GODOT at Corrib Theatre?

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by Evan Henerson - Nov 19, 2024


As embodied by Rainn Wilson and Aasif Mandvi in the revival of GODOT at the Geffen Playhouse, Vladimir and Estragon are a formidable pair. Beckett’s play about the unknowable darkness of the human condition has - go figure! - long been catnip for comedians, and you get why Wilson and Mandvi would want a whack at them.

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Interview: Aasif Mandvi’s Ready to Tackle His Character in WAITING FOR GODOT
by Gil Kaan - Nov 13, 2024


Up next at The Geffen Playhouse Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot opening November 13, 2024 (with previews already begun). Judy Hegarty Lovett directs the cast of: Lincoln Bonilla, Conor Lovett, Aasif Mandvi, Jack McSherry, Adam Stein and Rainn Wilson. Got Aasif to whittle off some answers to my queries.

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by Stephi Wild - Nov 11, 2024


Save up to 40% on tickets to Waiting For Godot at Theatre Royal Haymarket. Tickets are available from £25. Learn more about the show and how to get tickets here!

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WAITING FOR GODOT Set for Corrib Theatre Beginning This Month
by Blair Ingenthron - Nov 3, 2024


Corrib Theatre has announced its first production of the classic play WAITING FOR GODOT by Samuel Beckett, running November 29-Dec 15, 2024. The cast includes Roo Welsh as Vladimir, Karl Hanover as Estragon, Jonathan Cullen as Pozzo, Doren Elias as Lucky, and Max O'Hare as The Boy.

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by Chloe Rabinowitz - Oct 31, 2024


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Waiting for Godot History

Other Productions of Waiting for Godot

1956   Broadway
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1957   Broadway
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1971   Off-Broadway
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1981   Off-Broadway
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1988   Off-Broadway
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2005   Off-Broadway
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2006   Off-Broadway
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2009   Broadway Roundabout Revival
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2010   West End Return Engagement [West End]
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2013   Broadway Broadway Revival
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2015   Off-Broadway Gare St Lazare Ireland and Dublin Theatre Festival Production
Off-Broadway
2017   West End Arts Theatre Revival
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2021   Off-Broadway TFANA's Off-Broadway Production
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2023   Off-Broadway Theatre for a New Audience Off-Broadway Production
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2025   Broadway Broadway Revival Production
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