Star names can make ‘difficult’ plays like Waiting for Godot easier to sell – that’s no bad thing
Lucian Msamati and Ben Whishaw in rehearsals for Waiting for Godot, now running at Theatre Royal Haymarket, London. Photo: Marc Brenner
Describing a play as complex is not a theatre marketing department’s dream, so if stars – who are also great actors – can sweeten the offer, why complain?
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