Website Header
Theatre Royal Haymarket
Website Content
Home Page
Waiting for Godot
When Samuel Beckett’s WAITING FOR GODOT exploded on to the London stage 50 years ago, it shocked as many people as it delighted. There had never been a play like it. Two tramps clowning around, joking and arguing, repeating themselves, as they wait through one day and then another, waiting for the mysterious Godot. The combination of music hall, poetry and tension redefined what is possible in theatre, so that these days WAITING FOR GODOT is accepted as one of the most significant plays of the 20th century.
Beckett’s characters have lost none of their power to fascinate and amuse and this production, directed by the acclaimed theatre and film director, Sean Mathias, has attracted the sort of great actors that the play deserves.
Best available seats: Wednesday matinees at 2.30pm
Great seats at all prices just released for the weeks commencing July 28 and August 4
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Anna Friel (TV’s Pushing Daisies, Lulu Almeida Theatre, Closer Broadway) stars as Holly Golightly with Joseph Cross (Running with Scissors, Milk, Flags of our Fathers) as William ‘Fred’ Parsons in Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Samuel Adamson’s new stage adaptation of Truman Capote’s classic novella which previews from 9 September. Sean Mathias directs the second production in his Theatre Royal Haymarket season. The production is designed by Anthony Ward. Featuring the Oscar-winning song Moon River by Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer, Breakfast at Tiffany’s is presented by Chambord, and is produced by Colin Ingram by arrangement with The Theatre Royal Haymarket Company.
New York City, 1943. William ‘Fred’ Parsons, a young writer from Louisiana, meets Miss Holly Golightly, a charming, vivacious and utterly elusive good-time girl. Everyone falls in love with Holly, including William - but he is poor, and Holly needs rich. Will she marry Rusty, playboy millionaire? Or José, the future president of Brazil? As war rages in Europe, Holly begins to fall in love with William - and then her past catches up with her….