Waiting For Godot

Beckett's classic as Beckett intended: entertaining, unpretentious - and devastating.

A major new production of Beckett’s searingly intelligent play about the inevitability of suffering, the collapse of abstract ideas in the face of it and the human capacity to deal with it anyway.

Using the notes and sketches Beckett wrote in German, this production draws on scholarship, insight and theatrical talent from those that knew the man himself.

The most important European play of the 20th century presented by a company that knows the work inside out. Deeply funny, deeply moving and completely uncompromising.

This production of Beckett’s breakthrough play marks the high point of the Cockpit/Godot company collaboration, and seeks to present the play uncompromisingly as the classic it is: the most influential European play of the 20th century written by its pre-eminent literary intelligence at the end of one of the most terrible periods in human history.

A timely look at a play of distinctly European ideas and sensibility - at a time when the nature and ideological balance of a united Europe is once more being revisited.