Waiting For Godot

It’s a dozen years since Druid Theatre of Galway visited the Edinburgh Festival with their mighty cycle of Synge plays; and now they’re in residence again, with a production of Samuel Beckett’s 1952 masterpiece Waiting For Godot that has been hailed as the finest in a generation. Marty Rea and Aaron Monaghan play the two old tramps waiting at a roadside for a man who never comes, and the inimitable Garry Hynes directs, in an intensely physical production of this magnificent play about the utter bleakness of life, and the absolute miracle of the human bonds, the recognition and the humour, that make it possible to go on. ■ Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh, until tomorrow, 0141-248 4848