Waiting for Godot April 21, 2009

Waiting for Godot

20 April 2009 - 25 April 2009
Evenings: Mon - Sat 7.30pm
Matinees: Thu 2.00pm, Sat 2.30pm

Starring Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen

Running Time: TBC

Two tramps clowning around, joking and arguing, repeating themselves, as they wait through one day and then another, waiting for the mysterious Godot. When Samuel Beckett’s Waiting For Godot exploded on to the London theatre stage 50 years ago, it shocked as many people as it delighted.

Beckett’s characters have lost none of their power to fascinate and amuse in this new production directed by acclaimed theatre and film director, Sean Mathias.

Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart are both renowned Shakespearean actors at Stratford-upon-Avon, in the West End and on Broadway. They first worked together in Tom Stoppard’s Every Good Boy Deserves Favour for the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1977 and more recently in the X-Men film trilogy, as Magneto and Professor X.

Each of them has established their own iconic screen persona, as Gandalf in Lord of the Rings and as Star Trek’s Jean-Luc Picard.

Their new partnership with Beckett will be the theatre event of the year.

EXCLUSIVE OFFER FOR TICKET HOLDERS

Buy one glass of red / white wine at the Theatre Royal Grand or Upper Circle bars before 7.30pm and get one free.

Offer applies to ticket holders only and can only be redeemed from Thursday 23 – Saturday 25 April. Only one 2 for 1 per ticket holder. Offer only available pre-show.

Official Website: http://www.theatreroyal.co.uk/whats_on/show_details.asp?Course_ID=102004