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Forget Keanu: Ulster Scots translation of Beckett classic takes on spate of celebrity Godots

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Tragicomedy will be performed outdoors in Northern Irish countryside as part of new festival celebrating Irish playwright

Beneath a stark steel tree in a bleak upland bog, a literary masterpiece is set to assume a different linguistic mantle.

Samuel Beckett’s enigmatic tragicomedy Waiting for Godot will make its world premiere in Ulster Scots, a moment described as a “coming of age” for the minority language, and the antithesis of the trend for celebrity Godots.

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