No Man's Land and Waiting for Godot
Update: This production of No Man's Land , starring Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, is set to play London's Wyndham Theatre from 8 September through 17 December 2016. Visit londontheatres.co.uk to book your tickets. Twelfth Night and Richard III are not the only repertory productions on the boards right now. Sirs Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart lead rep productions of Harold Pinter’s No Man’s Land and Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot , both directed by Sean Mathias. (Tony winners Billy Crudup and Shuler Hensley round out each play's four-person company.) Though I was more familiar with Godot , I saw No Man’s Land first and stayed for the first of several post-show discussions with the cast and director. It helped. My experience with No Man’s Land mirrored my high school experience with Catcher in the Rye : I didn’t love reading it but I quite enjoyed discussing it. So too with this Pinter play. On an elementary level, No Man’s Land is about a man, Hi...