Andrew Upton’s production of Beckett’s famous play, staring Hugo Weaving and Richard Roxburgh, wows London critics.

Hugo Weaving and Richard Roxburgh have wowed London critics in Andrew Upton’s highly lauded staging of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. The Sydney Theatre Company production, which first seduced Australian critics and audiences alike in 2013, was presented at the Barbican Centre earlier this week as the headline event of the famous London venue’s major retrospective of the revered Irish playwrights work.

Jane Shilling of the The Telegraph declared the STC’s staging a production of “luminous intelligence and virtuoso physicality,” describing Roxburgh and Weaving’s performances as “revelatory.” Chief theatre critic for The Guardian Lyn Gardner was equally gushing in her praise for the show saying, “This is an evening that is clear, intelligent and boasts real chemistry between Weaving and Roxburgh,” although the three star rating that accompanied the review seemed out of step with the positivity of her words.

Sydney Theatre Company Artistic Director Andrew Upton

Ian Shuttleworth’s four star review for The Financial Times praised the paring of Roxburgh and Weaving, and the “complimentary-through-difference which Andrew Upton and...