"Conor Lovett — who co-founded Gare St. Lazare Ireland with his wife, Hegarty Lovett — plays Pozzo, the bullying master who arrives with a crack of his whip directed at his slave, Lucky (Adam Stein). Trimmer than more traditional portrayals of Pozzo (John Goodman was ferociously good in the otherwise disappointing 2009 Broadway revival), Lovett gives us a different image of this capitalist authoritarian. But he makes up for in vehemence what he lacks in girth.

More importantly, Lovett lends majestic voice to the rhythms of Beckett’s play, originally written in French but conceived by an Irish imagination and translated by Beckett himself."