WAITING FOR GODOT Arcola Theatre, London E8

It is not unusual for comedians to appear in Samuel Beckett’s plays. Max Wall and Lee Evans were particularly impressive. However, the play doesn’t make sense when Gogo and Didi are cast with actors in their mid-twenties and even less so when they can’t act. Tom Stourton and Tom Palmer, the comedy duo, aka Totally Tom and making their straight debut, are most at ease with the music hall cross-talk and circus slapstick; but even then they are rarely funny enough. The seriousness and poignancy defeat them completely.