'[Our double act The Right Size] is a big mixture - quite surreal, elements of slapstick, lots of visual gags, but also acting. We make comedies about people in situations. The last one we did was about two guys stuck in a bathroom for 25 years. Hence critics called it Beckettian. There was no overt reference to Godot, but it's kind of there underneath it. Always the best comedy is about people in very bad situations.

'We did a lot of rehearsal in Act Without Words I on just finding out, and making it clear to whoever was watching, what is going on in the man's brain - the puzzlement, desperation and fear. Imagine being catapulted in the middle of the desert. You'd be pretty upset.

'I love Beckett's plays. They're a brilliant mix of comic moments and sadness and tragedy. People in situations that they can't understand is always good drama. Beckett provokes strong responses and I think that's brilliant in anybody's work. I think his plays are wonderful. They're very funny as well.

'The first time that Waiting for Godot went to America, they got Bert Lahr to do it. Now Bert Lahr was the cowardly lion in The Wizard of Oz and he was one of America's great vaudeville stars. Samuel Beckett thought that the ideal performer for his work was Buster Keaton. He loved clowns and performers who could be stupid.

'I hope people feel first and foremost entertained. And anything after that would be good.'