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Alex Winter calls acting with Keanu Reeves in Waiting for Godot 'trippy and uncommon'

Alex Winter declared working with longtime pal Keanu Reeves in Waiting for Godot as surreal and unusual.

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The play that changed my life: ‘Waiting for Godot revealed that less is more – it made me fearless’

A school production of Samuel Beckett’s masterpiece, with Nigel Planer in the cast, provided a lesson in forgetting about failure

The Guardian - UK

Waiting for Godot review – Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter’s unlikely reunion

Bill & Ted stars land on Broadway for Jamie Lloyd’s disorienting and intermittently engaging take on Samuel Beckett’s classic

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Waiting for Godot at Theatre Royal Haymarket review: the best staging of this challenging classic I’ve ever seen

Ben Whishaw and Lucian Msamati take this production to a whole new level

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Waiting for Godot review – Beckett’s classic tragicomedy is more comedic than tragic

James Macdonald’s production sacrifices tension for slapstick but ultimately delivers pathos

The Guardian - UK

Bill and Ted on Broadway: Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter to reunite in a most excellent Waiting for Godot

Party on, theatre dudes!

Evening Standard

The waiting is over! Have the times finally caught up with Godot?

Samuel Beckett’s groundbreaking play is back again, this time starring Ben Whishaw and Lucian Msamati. Its tragicomic take on existence may match our cultural moment

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The Swimmer, Russian thugs, Jesus’ feet: Anne Carson’s lyrical, surreal new work strategically pricks literary seriousness

Wrong Norma, the latest collection of writings (and drawings and facsimiles) by the feted Canadian poet Anne Carson, is a work full of allusions, quotations, references, parody and other forms of stylised evocation.

The Conversation

The Guardian view on class in Britain: the government doesn’t want to talk about it

Editorial: Social mobility is being redefined because the Conservatives need election-ready political narratives

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: As You Like It; Tambo & Bones; Stumped – review

Seasoned actors turn Shakespeare’s romcom on its head in an enchanted RSC production; US race relations meet Waiting for Godot; and at the crease with Beckett and Pinter

The Guardian - UK

Ukraine's long-awaited counteroffensive has finally begun - but why now and to what end?

A few days into the news that the Ukrainian army has recaptured territorities from the Russian occupying forces, Kyiv’s counteroffensive still has plenty to intrigue us. Announced in autumn 2022, this summer 2023 campaign has been a long time coming. So much so that it almost came to seem like…

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Big banks will take crypto mainstream—if they ever show up

Every year, the crypto industry predicts that big banks will enter the market—but, years later, everyone is still waiting.

Fortune

Waiting for COVID

People just get it, no one really knows from whom or where

The Hindu

The case of the acclaimed South African novel that 'borrows' from Samuel Beckett

Pereant qui ante nos nostra dixerunt: may those who utter our words before us perish. This lighthearted Latin curse speaks a truth many readers and writers have felt: to have our thoughts articulated by someone else.

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The Big Hit review – feelgood prison comedy as convicts do Beckett

A curmudgeonly actor helps prisoners put on a production of Waiting for Godot in Emmanuel Courcol’s predictable drama

The Guardian - UK

Three cheers for the blind eye of the police: where would our leader be without it?

A Tory MP has demanded to know: ‘Was the Met weak, gullible, incompetent or stupid?’ The answer is yes – on all counts, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

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