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Waiting For Godot review: Beckett's 'Laurel and Hardy' lift gloomy Godot, writes PATRICK MARMION


PATRICK MARMION: The set-up of the two men waiting in vain for the arrival of a legendary saviour called Godot is notorious.

Set mostly in a museum, amid pillars, busts and the famous statue of Romulus and Remus suckling at a she-wolf, this historical past is also the living present for characters including protesters who vandalise it (in an easy nod to Just Stop Oil). Country and Western tunes add apple pie sweetness and Costello proves himself a fine jingle writer in a spoof ad for a pep pill called Vitajax, before a virile hoedown about eating red meat, Blood and Hot Sauce. And yet, over 80 giddying, gasp-inducing minutes, he reads minds, memorises a pack of cards, reveals the songs from a secret playlist, tears a page from Animal Farm, burns it to a cinder and reattaches it, without breaking a sweat.

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