Lloyd Evans Lloyd Evans

Poetic despair

Waiting for Godot<br /> Theatre Royal Haymarket Monsters<br /> Arcola

issue 16 May 2009

Waiting for Godot
Theatre Royal Haymarket

Monsters
Arcola

Godot is one of the most undramatic pieces of theatre ever written and it contains a conundrum I’ve never seen satisfactorily resolved. As a playwright you aim to communicate emotion. If you can make the spectators feel what the characters are feeling, you have a success.

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