Publisher: The Wyndham Theatres Ltd, London.

Format: Softcover booklet, saddle stitch with screenprint cover, 6pp, 18.4 x 12.7cm.

Text includes “Criterion Theatre, Piccadilly Circus, W.1. Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. Directed by Peter Hall. Setting by Peter Snow. First produced at the Arts Theatre on Wednesday 3rd August, 1955. Produced at Criterion Theatre, London, on Monday 12th September, 1955.” Actors listed are Peter Woodthorpe as Estragon; Hugh Burden as Vladimir; Timothy Bateson as Lucky; Peter Bull as Pozzo; and Raymond Mistovski as A Boy.

Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett’s (Irish, 1906–1989) classic absurdist tragicomedy premiered in English at the Arts Theatre London, a private members’ club, before being transferred to the public Criterion Theatre where it received a much wider reception and was governed by licensing authorities. The lord chamberlain office took offense to the play and was successful in getting it censored. This programme comes from a defining moment of 20th century theatre.

1cm tear to two pages where seal sticker was opened.