{"id":953,"date":"2023-11-25T19:05:24","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T19:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anaisleseat.com\/?p=953"},"modified":"2023-11-25T19:05:24","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T19:05:24","slug":"waiting-for-godot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anaisleseat.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/25\/waiting-for-godot\/","title":{"rendered":"Waiting For Godot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are two programmes from nine years apart. As a student in 1971, I saw Peter O&#8217;Toole at Nottingham Playhouse. His performance was spellbinding. I have included a newspaper review at the end of the programme. Harold Hobson put it better than I ever could. One of my all time great nights in a theatre.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/anaisleseat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Godot-Nottingham-Playhouse-1971.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"width: 500px; \" data-width=\"500\" data-height=\"max\" data-mobile-width=\"500\"  data-scrollbar=\"none\" data-download=\"on\" data-tracking=\"on\" data-newwindow=\"on\" data-pagetextbox=\"off\" data-scrolltotop=\"off\" data-startzoom=\"100\" data-startfpzoom=\"100\" data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">Godot Nottingham Playhouse 1971<br\/><\/a>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ten years later I was at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester at a production starring Max Wall and Trevor Peacock. By now I was a teacher and studying the play with my A-Level group. They were bright students and liked the play but, whenever I suggested that it was at all funny, they would not have it. It was sad. It was tragic. It was full of despair. Definitely not funny. I couldn&#8217;t persuade them. So, I took them to see this production and, as these two superb comic actors had the Royal Exchange audience rocking with laughter, I turned to my students and whispered, &#8220;It IS definitely funny&#8221;.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/anaisleseat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Godot-Royal-Exchange-1980.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"width: 500px; \" data-width=\"500\" data-height=\"max\" data-mobile-width=\"500\"  data-scrollbar=\"none\" data-download=\"on\" data-tracking=\"on\" data-newwindow=\"on\" data-pagetextbox=\"off\" data-scrolltotop=\"off\" data-startzoom=\"100\" data-startfpzoom=\"100\" data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">Godot Royal Exchange 1980<br\/><\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are two programmes from nine years apart. As a student in 1971, I saw Peter O&#8217;Toole at Nottingham Playhouse. His performance was spellbinding. I have included a newspaper review at the end of the programme. Harold Hobson put it better than I ever could. 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