If Samuel Beckett's plays sometimes feel like an expression of the annihilating possibility that there is nothing to express, that is nowhere more true than in these three late pieces. They are ...
Plank Productions will present a special Limited Engagement of Samuel Beckett's NOT I and ROCKABY this upcoming weekend, directed and performed by Jeni Jones, at The Broadwater Black Box Theatre in ...
First performed at the Royal Court by Billie Whitelaw in 1973, Not I is a puzzling, maddening flow of words delivered at the "speed of thought" by a disembodied mouth (pictured right). Punctuated by ...
Before Irish actress Lisa Dwan takes the stage for the “Beckett Trilogy” she has been performing internationally to much acclaim, theatergoers are warned that they are about to be plunged into ...
Pacing endlessly and rocking towards the big sleep, Siân Phillips and Charlotte Emmerson’s performances make this evening deeply affecting This no-frills cellar theatre is becoming one of our best ...
Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. On its first visit to the Royal Court last year, Lisa Dwan’s 40th-anniversary revival of Not I was publicised in part ...
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The only light in the theatre seems to emanate from the mouth itself, as it begins to gasp before tumbling into the breakneck stream of consciousness monologue that is Beckett's Not I. First performed ...
This review is of the show's run in summer 2014. While we should all feel jolly clever that works as mind-expandingly different as Samuel Beckett’s ‘Waiting for Godot’ and ‘Krapp’s Last Tape’ are ...
From cradle to grave and beyond, that’s the stretch in these three short Beckett plays mostly associated with Billie Whitelaw (who performed the first two on this same stage) and now triumphantly ...