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Article: Fighting for Godot.
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 2, 2005
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Byline: MARK PALMER
Sir Peter Hall has battled with London's theatre world for 50 years.
His latest bitter conflict is with the Barbican over Waiting For Godot. Mark Palmer investigates what happens when luvvies attack
Nothing much happens in Samuel Beckett's iconic play, Waiting For Godot.
Which makes the highoctane, action-packed row over who should be allowed to stage it in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the writer's birth all the more dramatic. 'The Barbican is being mean-spirited, cowardly and seems determined to develop a Stalinist attitude,' says Sir Peter Hall, as we sit down in a train bound for Bath, where he's ...