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‘It’s a national reclamation’: the 12-year festival bringing Samuel Beckett back to Ireland

The playwright has long been considered one of the country’s most famous exports, but not an ‘Irish writer’. An ambitious new season of plays explores his complex relationship with his homeland – and tickets are already on sale for 2036

The Guardian - UK

Matching Gary Oldman’s Krapp with a teenager’s take on Godot is a masterstroke

The Royal Court is presenting the Slow Horses star’s version of one Beckett masterpiece alongside 19-year-old Leo Simpe-Asante’s riff on another. They combine beautifully

The Guardian - UK

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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Waiting for Godot review – Matthew Kelly and George Costigan are a bleakly funny double act

Even the safety curtain has a morbid air in Dominic Hill’s post-apocalyptic staging of Beckett’s classic

The Guardian - UK

Alex Winter on fame, AI and reuniting with Keanu Reeves: ‘Sometimes we’re on a groove and go, ‘God damn, that was good!’

Midway through the Broadway run of Waiting for Godot with his Bill & Ted co-star Keanu, the actor-director talks about his new film, Adulthood, overcoming the abuse he endured as a young performer, and why we’re wrong about artificial intelligence

The Guardian - UK

Alex Winter takes a most excellent adventure on Broadway with 'Waiting For Godot' and Keanu Reeves

Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves have reunited on Broadway for “Waiting for Godot,” decades after their “Bill & Ted” films

The Independent UK

Keanu Reeves thanked Jonathan Groff for iconic Tony Awards moment

Broadway star infamously straddled the ‘John Wick’ actor during his performance at the 2025 award ceremony

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Waiting for Godot has been translated into Afrikaans: what took so long

At last, the most infamous latecomer in all of literature has arrived – not in the flesh, but in South Africa’s Afrikaans language. Irish playwright Samuel Beckett’s best-known drama, Waiting for Godot, now also lives as Ons Wag vir Godot.

The Conversation

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

Evening Standard

L’Addition review – superbly absurd comedy is waitering for Godot

Tim Etchells’ looping performance piece with Bert and Nasi replays a simple restaurant scene over and over with hilarious results

The Guardian - UK

Keanu Reeves to reunite with 'Bill and Ted' co-star Alex Winter for Broadway debut in 'Waiting for Godot'

The Times of India

'Bill & Ted' stars Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter eye Broadway reunion in 2025 for 'Waiting for Godot'

Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter, who played a pair of extraordinary slackers in three “Bill & Ted” films, are reuniting on Broadway for a revival of the brainy, existential classic “Waiting for Godot.”

The Independent UK

Ben Whishaw and Lucian Msamati to star in West End production of Waiting for Godot

Actors to make ‘merry mischief’ in Samuel Beckett’s play at Theatre Royal Haymarket in September

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