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Chicane Pictures June 18, 2015 This is a sketch of Hugo Weaving as Vladimir in WAITING FOR GODOT. It’s one of two drawings I did last week based on the Sydney Theatre Company’s production that had a short season at the Barbican in London. The other sketch was a montage of all four cast members, […]

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Theatre News Online June 2015 Beckett’s most famous play is often as notable for its visual impact as its emotional one. This new production for Sydney Theatre Company certainly doesn’t disappoint on that score. Hugo Weaving and Richard Roxburgh’s Vladimir and Estragon are alone in what looks like the remains of a vast, abandoned, windswept […]

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Candace in the UK June 9, 2015 […] Now, back to our program of “Waiting for Godot” with HUGO WEAVING. Sorry, I feel I must always capitalize his name now that I’ve seen him perform! I was first exposed to Waiting for Godot last fall in my Irish/English Postcolonial/War Literature class (it was that long […]

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Chicane Pictures June 13, 2015 Andrew Upton’s production for the Sydney Theatre Company of Samuel Beckett’s 1953 absurdist Waiting for Godot has been running all week as part of the Barbican’s International Beckett Festival. In her five star review for The Telegraph, Jane Shillings wrote, “you are about to spend two hours in the dark […]

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London Theatre 1 June 12, 2015 What would you consider to be ‘the most significant English language play of the 20th century’? There are so many to chose from! In a Royal National Theatre poll of 800 playwrights, actors, directors and journalists, the answer to this question is Samuel Beckett’s play “Waiting for Godot”. I’m […]

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Exeunt Magazine Neil Dowden June 8, 2015 This month’s International Beckett Season is the Barbican’s third festival within the last ten years dedicated to the most influential playwright of the twentieth century. And Sydney Theatre Company’s revival of their 2013 production ofWaiting for Godot shows how 60 years on since this iconic play was first staged […]

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Londonist June 8, 2015 Londonist Rating: ★★★☆☆ Towards the end of Plato’s Symposium, when the speeches in praise of love have ended and the night’s real activity — heavy, heavy drinking — has begun, Socrates, who it is said could drink all of Athens under the table, argues that he who writes the best comedy […]

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A Young Theatre Lydia Lakemoore June 8, 2015 It is always a liberating moment when browsing the literature in your programme to come across a blunt and brutally honest quotation by such a master as Sir Peter Hall. As the first director ofWaiting for Godot, before its premiere in London he was quoted to say, […]

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British Theatre Guide Philip Fisher June 8, 2015 Andrew Upton and his Sydney Theatre Company have become regular, welcome visitors to the Barbican and return to play their part in a mini season celebrating Samuel Beckett’s works. Their latest venture is a revival of one of the greatest, if least penetrable, stage works of the […]

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Financial Times June 8, 2015 Hugo Weaving stars in Sydney Theatre Company’s finely balanced production Thankfully, neither the pointy ears of Elrond in the Lord of the Rings films nor the compulsion to self-replicate of Agent Smith in the Matrix trilogy are in evidence here. In fact, Hugo Weaving’s face itself is scarcely on show, […]

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