Waiting for Godot review – Matthew Kelly and George Costigan are a bleakly funny double act

2026-02-26 - 15:53

Citizens theatre, Glasgow Even the safety curtain has a morbid air in Dominic Hill’s post-apocalyptic staging of Beckett’s classic Productions of Samuel Beckett’s modernist classic often evoke the world of music hall. The duelling routines of Vladimir and Estragon recall the banter of old-time vaudeville acts. A sequence of hat-swapping could have come straight from Laurel and Hardy. Echoes of that remain in Dominic Hill’s staging, a co-production with the Liverpool Everyman and Bolton Octagon, but his approach is less end of the pier than end of the road. At Citizens theatre, Glasgow, until 14 March. Then at Everyman theatre, Liverpool, 17 March-4 April and Octagon theatre, Bolton, 15 April-2 May. Continue reading...