Hugo Weaving and Richard Roxburgh set to thrill the Brits in 2015.

Sydney Theatre Company Artistic Director Andrew Upton’s award-winning production of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot has been invited to play London’s Barbican Theatre in 2015. Luke Mullins, Philip Quast, Richard Roxburgh and Hugo Weaving will reprise their roles as part of next year’s International Beckett Season.

The news comes hot on the heels of the company’s high profile success with Cate Blanchett, Isabelle Huppert and Elizabeth Debicki in Benedict Andrews’ production of Genet’s The Maids at New York’s Lincoln Center Festival last month. The show was seen by 33,000 people with Ben Brantley in the New York Times saying “I wouldn’t have missed it for the world” adding of Blanchett that “once again, she proves herself to be the ruling mutation master among contemporary actresses.”

STC’s production of Godot, which played to around 35,000 people in Sydney last year will be their second trip to the Barbican following the success of Botho Strauss’ Gross und Klein (Big and Small) in 2012 – a production which also starred Blanchett in one of her finest theatrical performances. The Barbican’s International Beckett Season will feature a host of major international artists including Robert Wilson in Krapp’s Last Tape, which was a controversial hit at this year’s Perth Festival.

Australian critics fell over themselves to praise Upton’s 2013 production of Beckett’s masterpiece, which famously the STC Artistic Director had to take over at the last minute, after the original director Tamas Asher was prevented from travelling to Australia due to a back injury. The production went on to win Helpmann awards for Roxburgh as Best Actor and Mullins as Best Supporting Actor.

Upton and Weaving meanwhile will have a full year of Beckett as the pair are due to collaborate directorially on Endgame next year, a production that will also see Weaving in the role of the monstrous Hamm.