Waiting for Godot, Lyceum Theatre, review: The quality and tightly-controlled subtlety of the performances rings out loud
To any theatregoer, the story is familiar. After all, there isn't much to tell; two vagrant men stand at the base of a tree and wait for Godot, who may or may not come. In this 50th year of the Royal Lyceum Theatre Company and the final year of artistic director Mark Thomson's 13-year leadership, the decision has been taken to focus on simplicity and star quality in this new version of Samuel Beckett's 1953 masterpie…