News: TICKETS ON SALE FOR WAITING FOR GODOT STARRING LUCIAN MSAMATI AND BEN WHISHAW
TICKETS ON SALE TODAY FOR
LUCIAN MSAMATI AND BEN WHISHAW IN
SAMUEL BECKETT’S
WAITING FOR GODOT
DIRECTED BY JAMES MACDONALD
OPENING AT THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET
13 SEPTEMBER - 14 DECEMBER 2024
The Producers today announce
performance dates and on sale for the new production of Samuel Beckett’s
Waiting for Godot, directed by James Macdonald, starring Lucian
Msamati (Estragon) and Ben Whishaw (Vladimir). Waiting for
Godot will play a limited run at Theatre Royal Haymarket from 13
September until 14 December 2024, press night Thursday 19
September 2024.
Tickets go on general sale today
with 25,000 tickets across the run priced at £25 and under, spread throughout
the house, of which 5,000 are held for under 30s and key workers
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”.
Kate Horton, Fictionhouse,
said, “We hope as many people as possible will have the chance to experience
this production and be inspired by the trail-blazing play, Waiting
for Godot. So I’m delighted that we have 25,000 tickets for £25 and under
available across the run, including 5,000 tickets particularly for under 30s
and key workers.”
Also announced today are Rae
Smith (Set and Costume Design) and Amy Ball (Casting CDG) joining
the creative team, with further casting and creatives to be announced.
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…
“Let us do something, while we
have the chance… at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us,
whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it before it is too
late!”
Don’t miss the play that changed
the rules. Waiting for Godot opens at the historic Theatre
Royal Haymarket for a strictly limited run from September 2024.
Lucian Msamati plays
Estragon. Theatre credits include Master Harold and the Boys, Amadeus,
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (National Theatre), A Wolf in Snakeskin
Shoes (The Tricycle), Othello (RSC), Little Revolution
(Almeida Theatre), The Amen Corner (National Theatre), If You Don't
Let us Dream We Won't Let You A Sleep, Belong (Royal Court), Comedy
of Errors (National Theatre), Clybourne Park (Royal Court/West End),
Ruined (Almeida Theatre), Death and The Kings Horsman (National
Theatre), The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Lyric Hammersmith), 1807-
The First Act (Shakespeare’s Globe), Pericles (RSC), The
Overwhelming (National Theatre), Walk Hard, Fabulation, Gem
Of The Ocean (The Tricycle), Who Killed Mr Drum (Riverside), President
of An Empty Room (National Theatre), Twelfth Night (Sheffield
Crucible), Mourning Becomes Electra (National Theatre), I.D.
(Almeida Theatre), Romeo & Juliet (The Dancehouse, Manchester), The
Taming of the Shrew (Bath Shakespeare Festival), Born African
(Arthur Seaton Theatre, New York), Twelfth Night (Neuss Globe Theatre,
Germany), Fade to Black (Harare International Festival of Arts), Eternal
Peace Asylum (American Repertory Theatre), Loot, Urfaust
(Reps Theatre), Rocky Horror Picture Show (Seven Arts Theatre) and A
Midsummer Night’s Dream (NTO Zimbawbe). Television credits
include Gangs of London (2 Seasons), Chemistry of Death,
Dark Materials, Black Earth Rising, Kiri, Philip K
Dick's Electric Dreams, Taboo, George Gently, Luther, Game
of Thrones, Death in Paradise, Richard III, No.1 Ladies
Detective Agency, Dr Who, Ashes To Ashes, Spooks,
Just Like Ronaldinho, Ultimate Force, Too Close for Comfort, The
Knock and Heads and Tales. Film credits include Conclave, Breaking
Point, The Good Liar, The Seekers, The International, Coffin,
Legend of the Sky, Kingdom, Dr Juju and Lumumba.
Radio credits include: An Elegy For Easterly, Mugabe: God’s President,
The Jero Plays, The Homecoming, Seventh Street and Alchemy and
Colours.
Lucian is a founder member of Zimbabwe's Over the Edge theatre company and
former Artistic Director of Tiata Fahodzi.
Ben Whishaw plays
Vladimir. Ben is a multi award-winning British actor. His notable film credits
include the role of Q in Skyfall, Spectre and No
Time To Die; the voice of Paddington in Paddington and Paddington
2; Perfume: The Story of a Murderer; Jane Campion’s Bright
Star; Cloud Atlas; Tom Hooper’s multi award-winning The Danish
Girl; The Lobster; in the role of Mr. Banks in Disney’s Mary
Poppins Returns; Armando Iannucci’s The Personal History of David
Copperfield; Alice Englert's Bad Behaviour with Jennifer
Connelly; and Passages with Franz Rogowski and Adèle Exarchopoulos. We
last saw Ben in Sarah Polley’s Women Talking, alongside Claire Foy and
Frances McDormand, for which he was nominated for a Satellite Award, a
Hollywood Critics Association Film Award and longlisted for a BAFTA for Best
Supporting Actor.
It has been announced that he
will reprise his role as the voice of the titular bear in Paddington in Peru
and last year, he wrapped filming Limonov, The Ballad of Eddie in
Russia and Latvia, in which he stars as Eduard Limonov. He'll star in the short
film, Good Boy, the directorial debut of Tom Stuart with the support of
Gia Coppola.
Ben’s TV credits include his role
as Norman Scott in the mini-series A Very English Scandal opposite
Hugh Grant. This performance saw Ben recognised with a Golden Globe for Best
Supporting Actor - Series, Miniseries, or Motion Picture Made for Television,
along with a Primetime Emmy Award and a BAFTA. Criminal
Justice, The Hour, Fargo and a BAFTA award-winning
performance in The Hollow Crown. He starred in the lead role of This
Is Going To Hurt, the series adaptation of Adam Kay’s bestselling novel,
for which he won Leading Actor in the 2023 BAFTA TV Awards along with
Outstanding Performance in a New Series at the 2022 Gotham Awards and winning
in the Best Actor category at the Broadcasting Press Guild Awards. Ben was
nominated for numerous awards as well including Best Actor by the TV
Choice Awards; a Critic’s Choice Awards for Best Actor In A Limited Series
or Movie Made For Television and a Gold Derby Award for Limited / Movie
Actor.
He is currently filming Black
Doves (Netflix) and is starring alongside Keira Knightley and Sarah
Lancashire.
Ben’s theatre credits have included Mojo (Harold Pinter Theatre), Peter and Alice (Noel Coward), Some Trace of Her and The Seagull (National Theatre), Leaves of Glass (Soho Theatre), Hamlet (Old Vic), Julius Caesar (The Bridge Theatre) and The Crucible (on Broadway).
Waiting for Godot is
produced by Kate Horton for Fictionhouse and Len
Blavatnik and Danny Cohen for Access Entertainment, in association with Kate
Pakenham Productions.
LISTINGS
WAITING FOR GODOT
Theatre Royal Haymarket
13 September - 14 December 2024
Press night: Thursday 19 September 2024.
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