MARIA DUARTE recommends a remarkable study of the friendship between a Palestinian and a Pakistani, broken by a hostile state
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Waiting for Beckett
SIMON PARSONS applauds a brilliant version of Waiting for Godot that has to negotiate a grumpily possessive literary estate
FUNNIER THAN GODOT: Merce Ribot and Patricia Rodriguez in Nothing Happens (twice)
[Pic: Pau Ros]
MATTHEW HAWKINS rakes through un-fancy words and flair-free summaries to find who and what might be flamboyant
PETER MASON is exhilarated by an exciting, well-considered and historically minded tribute to the great Trinidadian instrument
Reducing historical lives to ‘male’ and ‘female’ roles, we lose the nuance of those lives and a clearer understanding of past societies, suggests CLAIRE ISABELLA GILMOUR
CHRIS SEARLE relishes the genius of pianist Alexander Hawkins, his many ensembles, and his new album
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.
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