Konstantin Khabensky time. In 1990 Khabensky entered the Leningrad State Institute of Theatre, Music and Cinema (course of Veniamin Filshtinsky), where his classmates were Mikhail Porechenkov, Andrei Zibrov and Mikhail Trukhin. For the final exam Konstantin performed as Estragon in the play "Waiting for Godot" by Samuel Beckett, his graduation was in 1995. Khabensky's cinematic debut was in the 1994 comedy film "To whom will God send" where he appeared in a minor role of a pedestrian. In 1995, after graduating from the Russian State Institute of Performing Arts, Konstantin worked at the Perekriostok Experimental Theater where he served for one year.
Samuel Beckett in 1966. Billie Whitelaw worked with Beckett for 25 years on such plays as "Not I", "Eh Joe", "Krapp's Last Tape", and "Footfalls" and "Rockaby." She first met Beckett in 1963. In her autobiography "Billie Whitelaw...: Who He?," she describes their first meeting in 1963 was "trust at first sight". Beckett went on to write many of his experimental theatre works for her. She came to be regarded as his muse, the "supreme interpreter of his work", perhaps most famous for her role as the mouth in "Not I". She said of the play "Rockaby": "I put the tape in