It's the End of the World, Again
✮✮✮✮ Samuel Beckett's Endgame Sydney Theatre Company | Sydney directed by Andrew Upton On stage, artists can communicate ideas that they believe to be of interest to the wider community. They can also use it as grounds for exploration, to develop an improved understanding of the nature of their practice or to investigate issues surrounding our lives. Stories are shared and concepts are illustrated, that may or may not connect with audiences but we never quite leave the theatr
Baseball Caps Not Bowler Hats
✮✮✮ Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot Arcola Theatre | London directed by Simon Dormandy It’s been a long wait for an update to Beckett’s 1953 play, but this slick and lively new version at the Arcola theatre is stepping with bravado into a storied production history. The play conjures ideas of almost unbearably nostalgic tramps in battered bowler hats and beaten up suits; quaint, antic figures on a dusty country road. Director Simon Dormandy hasn’t had the heart – or guts
