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World Service,2 mins

Could Waiting for Godot ever be performed by women?

The Forum

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Waiting for Godot is a play with four male actors and a boy, and the Irish playwright Samuel Beckett , and today his estate, have always been adamant the play is not to be performed by women. The theatre directors Benjy Francis and Garry Hynes, and Professor of Theatre Anna McMullan ask whether this could ever change … Photo: The 1956 production of Waiting for Godot (Lipnitzki/Getty Images)

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