The production will open at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in 2024.
Kate Horton for Fictionhouse and Len Blavatnik and Danny Cohen for Access Entertainment, in association with Kate Pakenham Productions have confirmed a new production of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot which will run at the Theatre Royal Haymarket from September 2024.
Directed by James Macdonald, the production is set to star Lucian Msamati ( Master Harrold and the Boys, Amadeus, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom- National Theatre) as Estragon and Ben Whishaw (Paddington, Q in Skyfall, Spectre and No Time To Die) as Vladimir. Further casting has yet to be announced.
Lucian Msamati said: The wait has been worth it! I look forward to making merry mischief with James Macdonald for the first time and a too long overdue reunion with the creative brilliance and genuine spirit that is Ben Whishaw”.
Ben Whishaw said: “When I was 18 I was doing an art foundation course in Bedford and went one night with a friend to London to see a play that was part of a season of plays by Samuel Beckett at the Barbican Theatre. The play was Waiting for Godot. The next day I dropped out of my art course, having decided I wanted to study acting instead. I am unbelievably thrilled and excited – and a little terrified too – to be having this chance to perform Beckett’s utterly radical and incredibly beautiful play. It has haunted me since that night 25 years ago. And to get to do it with Lucian Msamati and James Macdonald … well, that’s just a dream”.
Didi and Gogo wait by a tree for a man named Godot. They don’t know who he is, why they are meeting or what time he is coming – only that something incredible could happen when he does…
Further information about the production has yet to be announced.
To sign up for priority tickets visit: https://waitingforgodotplay.com/