IN 1957, as a 17-year-old drama student at Bristol's Old Vic Theatre School, Patrick Stewart went to see Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, starring a then unknown actor called Peter O'Toole.
It was an unforgettable experience. "When he came on stage, my sense was that the lights brightened," says Stewart of O'Toole's charismatic turn as Vladimir, who, with friend and fellow vagrant Estragon, dominates Beckett's most celebrated play.Stewart left that performance in Bristol determined that one day he would play Vladimir and, half a century later, the man known to millions of TV viewers as Star Trek's Captain Jean-Luc Picard finally fulfils that ambition by appearing in Waiting for Godot, with Ian McKellen as Estragon.
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