A group celebrated artist Sean Scully's 80th birthday at Hampstead Heath, featuring a striking tree sculpture and readings from Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. Actors Adrian Dunbar and Russell Tovey performed excerpts from the play, with Dunbar linking the text to sculptor Alberto Giacometti, who created a tree for a revival of Godot. Scully made the current tree sculpture as a set prop for Dunbar. The event also included a dinner for Scully at his London gallery, Thaddaeus Ropac.
Adrian Dunbar explained the links between Beckett's text and sculptor Alberto Giacometti, who created a plaster tree for a 1961 revival of Waiting for Godot.
This latest incarnation of Godot's Tree was made recently by Scully as a set prop for Dunbar, a long-time friend.
Dunbar stated, 'We are killing two birds with one stone,' referencing both Sean Scully's birthday and the christening of his tree.
Adrian Dunbar and Russell Tovey read excerpts from Beckett's 1953 play Waiting for Godot, reciting the roles of Vladimir and Estragon.
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