Waiting for Godot
THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET, LONDON
Roots / Look Back in Anger
ALMEIDA THEATRE, LONDON
IN THE MIDDLE of the twentieth century, three plays radically challenged how theatre should look and sound: Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot (1955), John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger (1956) and Arnold Wesker’s Roots (1959). The main characters – two tramps, a man and a woman from the young working class – were unfamiliar on stage. Simultaneous revivals invite a health check on these septuagenarian texts.
