UK 'GODOT' Star Stewart Lashes Out at Picture Taking Audience Member

Scotland's Daily Record reports that Patrick Stewart upset fans following a theater performance of 'WAITING FOR GODOT' in Scotland by launching a "foul-mouthed tirade at a man who allegedly took a picture of him onstage", according to people who attended the show.

The actor is currently taking part in a West End bound touring production of Samuel Beckett's classic alongside his X-Men co-star Ian McKellen.

And after a performance in Edinburgh earlier this week, the star is said to have accosted an autograph hunter outside the King's Theater, accusing him of using a camera during the performance.

A source tells Scotland's Daily Record newspaper, "There were at least 40 people waiting for autographs and this guy had a big camera and was waiting at the front of the queue. The woman with the guy was getting her program signed. Stewart suddenly looked up and said, 'Are you the asshole who was sitting at the front tonight? You know, what I really want to know is how you can sleep at night? I really hope you're pleased with yourself.'

To read the full article click here.Sean Mathias directs Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot which is his first production as Artistic Director of the 2009 Theatre Royal Haymarket Company. Waiting for Godot will tour the UK prior to its opening in London in April.

Designs are by Stephen Brimson Lewis and lighting is by Paul Pyant. Waiting for Godot is produced by the Theatre Royal Haymarket Company in partnership with Duncan C. Weldon Productions Ltd. Further casting for Waiting for Godot and the subsequent productions in Sean Mathias' Theatre Royal Haymarket Season will be announced shortly.

Prior to the Theatre Royal Haymarket run, Waiting for Godot will tour to Edinburgh King's Theatre (13 - 18 April) and Newcastle Theatre Royal (20 - 25 April).

Waiting for Godot will preview at the Theatre Royal Haymarket from April 30th with press night on May 6th 2009 and is booking until June 28th, 2009 for a strictly limited season.

Waiting for Godot received its world premiere at the Théâtre de Babylone in Paris in 1953. The English-language premiere in 1955, was directed by Peter Hall at the Arts Theatre. Beckett himself directed the play at the Schiller Theatre, Berlin in 1975. Born in Dublin in 1906, Samuel Beckett was an Irish writer, dramatist, critic and poet. He wrote in both French and English and is best known for his plays including Endgame, Krapp's Last Tape and Happy Days as well as Waiting for Godot. Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969.