Waiting for Godot

I've just been listening to the "Today" programme on Radio 4. Among other things they were talking about the forthcoming touring production of Beckett's "Waiting for Godot". It sounds as though it's going to be quite something with the likes of Sir Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, Ronald Pickup & Simon Callow starring in it. The programme talked to the actors & the challenges of the play & their roles in it. Their insights were very perceptive. It's easy to realise how these actors have become the big names they've become. I just wish the tour was coming somewhere near here - to Manchester for example - but no, we'd have to go off to Edinburgh or Newcastle for our nearest venues. But I am tempted...