Naseeruddin Shah’s Motley Theatre Group is reviving some of its best productions. Most of the plays in this selection go back many years, like the classic, Waiting for Godot, which was first performed by the two veterans of the theatre, Shah and Benjamin Gilani, 30 years ago to a near empty theatre of bemused spectators. This revival combines some of the old favourites and more current ones.
Waiting for Godot
Samuel Beckett’s masterpiece is considered the most significant play written in the 20th century. An example of Absurd drama, where “Nothing happens, twice” and time stands still in the act of waiting for someone who never appears, there is dark humour here and compassion and suspense. As Harold Hobson wrote in The Sunday Times, London, 1955, “Go and see Waiting for Godot. At the worst you will discover a curiosity, a four-leaved clover, a black tulip; at the best, something that will securely lodge in a corner of your mind for as long as you live.”
