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The play that changed my life: 'Waiting for Godot revealed that less is more " it made me fearless'

by Michael Zilkha

A school production of Samuel Beckett's masterpiece, with Nigel Planer in the cast, provided a lesson in forgetting about failure Until I was 12 I was in the French school system, where theatre was Molière, Corneille, Racine. Going to the theatre meant The Sound of Music or My Fair Lady. Then it was decided I would switch to school in England. So, at 13, I arrived at Westminster school. It was 1968, and the world op…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 7:18am on October 22, 2025