The last time Deborah Warner directed a Beckett play, his estate banned her from doing any more. Now they've relented. She explains the attraction of short, action-free dramas to Alfred Hickling.
October 2006
Krapp's Last Tape
4 stars Royal Court, London
Waiting For Godot
New Ambassadors, London
Not before time: Hall takes Godot back to West End
For Sir Peter Hall at least, the waiting is over. Fifty-one years after directing the first English language version of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot the director is returning with it to the West End.
June 2006
Michael Gambon interview: Fail again, fail better
Audiences love him, playwrights want him - so why is Michael Gambon never happy with his performance? Emma Brockes meets the actor as he limbers up for Beckett.
April 2006
Play/Catastrophe
Barbican, London
Not only Beckett's birthday
Ariel Dorfman
Ariel Dorfman: Samuel Beckett and Adolf Eichmann never met. But they were born a month apart in 1906.
More kicks than you might think
Eh Joe
Footfalls/Come and Go
March 2006
Jude Law stars in Radio 3 play
Rockaby/Ohio Impromptu
Champion of ambiguity
Terry Eagleton
Chronicles of the human heart
February 2006
Endgame
Waterfront Hall, Belfast
August 2005
Beckett takes the biscuit
Godot almighty
Peter Hall
July 2005
Godot almighty
Play/Not I
January 2003
Godotmania
Its premiere 50 years ago was ignored. When it arrived in London, it was derided. But, says Peter Hall, since Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, theatre has never been the same
