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Waiting For Godot.
First Production Theatre de Babylone, Paris 1953.
Playwright - Samuel Beckett.
Director - Andy Arnold.
Designer - Sarah Paulley. Assistant Designer - Will Holt.
Lighting Designer - Steven Rowe.
Company - The Arches Theatre Company .
Cast - here .
Venue - The Arches Theatre book
on line at www.thearches.co.uk
0141 565 1023
New entrance at 253 Argyll St.
Dates - 8
- 25 Oct at 7.30pm. not Sun or Mons.
Run Time - 2 hours 30 mins with one interval.
Reviewer - Thelma Good.
Very rewarding wait.
Waiting For Godot - The Arches Theatre Co. Production.
Estragon - Andrew Dallmeyer and Vladimir - Paul Riley.
© Niall Walker 2003
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Up here in Scotland it's a while since the last professional production
of this play, but the wait has now been rewarded. For those who are keen
on Beckett to those who have never seen any there's a great theatrical
treat in The Arches' anniversary production of Samuel Beckett's Waiting
For Godot.
It's fifty years since a tree at evening on a country road appeared on
a stage. Since then every element of this play has gone into theatre history.
It's a play in two acts, where two men spend time waiting twice for Godot
who never appears. Not a lot happens, some of the not-a-lot happens twice
or more. It sounds pointless, but it's no more pointless than life. Like
life it has its funny moments and its extraordinary moments despite nothing
particularily significant occurring.
Vladimir's called Didi by his fellow tramp Estragon or Gogo , they share
an interest in things biblical. It seems, (much is suggest in this play,
little is certain) also share a past, wearing clothes which have seen
better days it's not the first time they've waited on this road. Andrew
Dallmeyer is fully and completely Valdimir, the ingrained charm transcending
but never obscuring his begrimed appearance, for as he says "we were
presentable". Cast opposite Dallmeyer as Estragon is Paul
Riley who proves on stage he's immently watchable - he's clearly fit
and game for more than very sucessful comedy TV shows.
The tramps have both encountered Grant Smeaton's petite dictator
Pozzo and his inappropriately named servant Lucky before. Lucky's a tricky
one to play but Stephen Clyde's Lucky, red eyed, looking like he
never, ever sleeps. He memorably gives us Lucky's speech and dance while
Smeaton's performance underlines he's an actor we should see more often.
Closing both the acts is Gregor Ritchie as the Boy sent by Godot.
His performance completes a Godot which makes you feel the wait has been
truely well reward.
© Thelma Good 9 October 2003. - Published on EdinburghGuide.com
Cast: Vladimir - Paul Riley, Estragon - Andrew
Dallmeyer, Pozzo - Grant Smeaton, Lucky - Stephen Clyde and Boy - Gregor
Ritchie.
Theatre Editor, Thelma Good's e-mail is
thelma@edinburghguide.com
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