MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s disection of William Blake
While the others suffered
LYNNE WALSH is spell-bound by a production of Beckett’s classic that weaves the big themes of alienation into the warp and weft of humour and friendship
POST-TRAUMA SCENARIO: Ben Whishaw (Vladimir), Lucian Msamat Estragon)i. Tom Edden (Lucky) and Jonathan Slinger (Pozzo) in Waiting for Godot
[Marc Brenner] 
New releases from Christina Alden and Alex Patterson, Odette Michell, Clementine Lovell
JOHN GREEN is fascinated by a very readable account of Britain’s involvement in South America
Strip cartoons used to be the bread and butter of newspapers and they have been around for centuries. MICHAL BONCZA asks our own Paul Tanner about which bees are in his bonnet
GORDON PARSONS acknowledges the authority with which Sarah Kane’s theatrical justification for suicide has resonance today
RON JACOBS welcomes a timely homage to one of the IWW and CPUSA’s most effective orators
Waiting for Godot
Theatre Royal Haymarket, London
IS this really a play in which nothing happens — twice, as so many critics have claimed?
Is it all nihilistic gloom, or is there a tale of comradeship against the odds?
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MARY CONWAY applauds the success of Beth Steel’s bitter-sweet state-of-the-nation play
WILL STONE foresees the refashioning of Beckett’s study of bitter nostalgia given the plethora of self-recording we make in the digital age
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a play about AI that results in a deadening disconnect for its audience
A nervous year, showing that the theatre, like the world, stands on a precipice and seems uncertain where to jump