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While the others suffered
LYNNE WALSH is spell-bound by a production of Beckett’s classic that weaves the big themes of alienation into the warp and weft of humour and friendship
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Waiting for Godot
Theatre Royal Haymarket, London

 

IS this really a play in which nothing happens — twice, as so many critics have claimed?

Is it all nihilistic gloom, or is there a tale of comradeship against the odds?

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