Waiting For Waiting For Godot
- Radio comedy drama
- BBC Radio 4
- 2025
- 1 episode
As the first covid lockdown begins, a theatre group wonders if their production of Waiting For Godot will continue its run. Stars Adrian Edmondson, Kiell Smith-Bynoe, Simon Callow, Christopher Ryan and Madeleine Paulson
- Due to be broadcast on Tuesday 18th March on Radio 4 at 2:15pm
Key details
- Genre
- Comedy Drama
- Broadcast
- 2025
- Channel
- BBC Radio 4
- Episodes
- 1
- Stars
- Adrian Edmondson, Kiell Smith-Bynoe, Simon Callow, Christopher Ryan and Madeleine Paulson
- Writer
- Adrian Edmondson
- Director
- Caroline Raphael
- Producers
- Caroline Raphael and Celia De Wolff
- Company
On 16th March 2020 the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, gave a press conference in Downing Street to bring the public up to date with "the national fight back against the new Coronavirus". As part of a series of measures "to delay and flatten the peak of the epidemic" was the recommendation that the public should avoid going to social venues such as pubs, clubs and theatres.
The next day, 17th March, a group of actors are waiting on stage. They are half way through a run of Samuel Beckett's Waiting For Godot. Will the show go on? Will it close? Will they ever get paid? Will they ever work again? So many questions - but the person who can answer them still hasn't turned up.