Nothing Happens (Twice)
MAC Birmingham

WITH the 70th anniversary of Waiting for Godot’s first production, various theatre companies, including Little Soldier Productions, have turned to this iconic play as a stimulus for fresh material.

Merce Ribot and Patricia Rodriguez are Spanish multilingual physical theatre performers who have charted their ineffectual quest to gain the rights to perform Godot while making a living from a song and dance routine for the Andalucian tourist board in a London shopping centre.

The six times daily sales pitch dressed as flamingoes becomes the wonderfully absurd reinvention of Beckett’s characters filling time with empty words while trying to find a purpose for their actions and existence.