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Waiting for Godot 2024

Ages: 12+
Opened: December 17, 2024
Closing: December 21, 2024

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Theatre Royal Haymarket
18 Suffolk Street London SW1Y 4HT London

Lucian Msamati and Ben Whishaw star in one of the greatest plays of the 20th century – Samuel Beckett’s masterpiece, Waiting for Godot, directed by James Macdonald.

Didi and Gogo wait by a tree for a man named Godot. They don’t know who he is, why they are meeting or what time he is coming – only that something incredible could happen when he does...

“Let us do something, while we have the chance…at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it before it is too late!”

Don’t miss the play that changed the rules. Waiting for Godot opens at the historic Theatre Royal Haymarket for a strictly limited season from September 2024.

__Filmed Performances__


November 13th 2.30pm

November 20th 2.30pm & 7.30pm


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Waiting for Godot History

Other Productions of Waiting for Godot

1956   Broadway
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1957   Broadway
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1971   Off-Broadway
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1981   Off-Broadway
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1988   Off-Broadway
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2005   Off-Broadway
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2006   Off-Broadway
Off-Broadway
2009   Broadway Roundabout Revival
Broadway
2010   West End Return Engagement [West End]
West End
2013   Broadway Broadway Revival
Broadway
2015   Off-Broadway Gare St Lazare Ireland and Dublin Theatre Festival Production
Off-Broadway
2017   West End Arts Theatre Revival
West End
2021   Off-Broadway TFANA's Off-Broadway Production
Off-Broadway
2023   Off-Broadway Theatre for a New Audience Off-Broadway Production
Off-Broadway
   West End
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2025   Broadway Broadway Revival Production
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