Ian McKellan and Patrick Stewart in Waiting For Godot in Malvern (From Ledbury Reporter)

Ian McKellan and Patrick Stewart in Waiting For Godot in Malvern

1:53pm Monday 23rd February 2009

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SAMUEL Beckett’s iconic play waiting for Godot is on stage at Malvern Theatres next week starring the renowned Shakespearean actors Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart.

The two stars in partnership with Beckett has been the theatrical event of the year and the Malvern performances sold out weeks ago.

The play is half a century old and when it made its debut shocked as many people as it delighted. There is no play like it - just two tramps clowning around and arguing and repeating themselves as they wait for the mysterious Godot. The play is accepted to have redefined what is possible in theatre and is regarded as one of the most significant plays of the twentieth century.

The play is being directed by theatre director and fim maker Sean Mathias.

McKellan and Stewart have worked together before in Tom Stoppard’s Every Good Boy Deserves Favour for the RSC in 1977 and more recently in the X-Men trilogy. Both have also established their own memorable screen characters McKellen as Gandalf in the Lord of The Rings and Stewart as Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek.

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