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A new production from Bristol’s Tobacco Factory Theatres of Samuel Beckett’s iconic Waiting for Godot visits Scarborough’s Stephen Joseph Theatre next month.
Christopher Bianchi, Colin Connor, David Fielder (last seen at the SJT in last year’s touring production of And The Come the Nightjars) and John Stahl star in this iconic play, with young local actors Seth Pickering and Sam Tennant taking on the role of The Boy. The production plays at the Stephen Joseph Theatre from Wednesday 22 to Saturday 25 November.
When it was first performed in Paris in 1953, Waiting for Godot shook the foundations of the theatrical landscape at the time. Brought to London by the late Sir Peter Hall, at its British premiere two years later the theatre critic Kenneth Tynan remarked that the play had ‘changed the rules of theatre’. Now, 65 years later, Waiting for Godot is as fresh and urgent as ever.
Tobacco Factory Theatres’ production of Waiting for Godot is directed by Mark Rosenblatt, who was Associate Director at the West Yorkshire Playhouse from 2013 to 2016. He was the Associate Director at the National Theatre Studio from 2011 to 2013 and ran Dumbfounded Theatre from 2001. In 1999 he won the JMK Award for Young Directors and he now serves as the JMK Trust’s Vice-Chair.
Mark says: “There aren’t many plays that make a splash in popular culture. It’s a high-wire act and yet it is written with such certainty and confidence, so precisely and with such brilliant comic patterns. It plays with the biggest universal ideas – hope, trying hard to get through life, filling time, purpose, wondering what it all means and how we use and abuse relationships. And yet, somehow – and I think this is where its magic really lies – it manages to do so in a way which resists explaining itself. It’s rich and specific and inexplicably about everything and nothing.”
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