Acclaimed touring company London Classic Theatre will be bringing Samuel Beckett’s classic play Waiting for Godot to the Epsom Playhouse for one night only on Thursday 24 September. This 60 year old masterpiece was voted the most significant English language play of the 20th Century and is a ground-breaking, anarchic meditation on the meaning of life and death.
Part allegory, part burlesque, Beckett’s unique, timeless play moves seamlessly between absurdist comic sketch and captivating philosophical drama. Waiting for Godot was first produced in the UK at the Arts Theatre, London in 1955, directed by Sir Peter Hall.
Samuel Beckett (1906 - 1989) was an Irish writer, dramatist and poet. He wrote in both English and French, and his principal works include Krapp’s Last Tape, Happy Days and Endgame. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969.