Waiting for Godot

The three of us went to London by train on Wednesday to visit the Haymarket Theatre and watch 'Waiting for Godot' described as the most important play in the English language of the 20th Century. We walked from Waterloo across the Thames, past Downing Street and into Trafalgar Square and Nelson's Column. Glen was suitably unimpressed but that was nothing compared to his visit to the national Gallery where I wanted to have a look at the impressionist paintings. It was quite a long hour for him so we cheered him up in TGI Fridays where he had a steak and worried about watching some incomprehensible play!

The cast was suitably starry though with Patrick Stewart and Ian Mckellen, both stars of the XMen films, and notable as Gandalf and Captain Jean Luc Picard. I'm sure they would much rather be famed for their theatre work of course. Alongside them were Ronald Pickup and Simon Callow, both famous in their own rights with Callow having died in Four Weddings and A Funeral whilst dressed in a kilt.

It was very entertaining and quite humorous considering the play deals with the question of human existence and the futility of it all as we search in vain for meaning to our lives.

We were amazed at how taken with it Glen was and he questioned us all the way home about what we thought it all meant having initially been angered by the fact there was no answer or satisfactory conclusion as far as plot was concerned. He even looked it up on Wikipedia later and was chatting about existentialism whatever that actually is!