To mark Samuel Beckett's centenery, Impact are performing eight of his plays; two full-length shows,and six shorts.
Despite performing four productions already this year, we're showing no signs of exhaustion; 'Beckett's Women: A Season' shall see the performance of known (Happy Days, Endgame, Not I, Play) and less well-known (Come and Go, Catastrophe, Rockaby, Footfalls) works from a different perspective: these Beckett plays have been chosen specifically to illustrate how the author depicts women.
From November 7th until December 2nd the Impact machine will be running more or less constantly in our city centre basement theatre; apart from Sunday and Monday nights, when we'll be installing and removing sets!
Speaking of this ambitious project, director Patrick Burke has this to say "Yes it is ambitious, and very demanding for everyone involved, but we're delighted to be doing something here in Limerick that hasn't been done anywhere else. This examination of Beckett's female characters hasn't been done in Ireland before. "
Contact Niamh Bowen: 086 3641441 for further information.
10 comments:
I'm sure he was a wonderful man and a gifted writer but nothing I've seen on TV has inspired me to look out for his works or read anything. I'm probably an irredeemable heathen but to me this Beckett season has been nothing but an excuse for luvvies to fall over themselves in the rush to say what a fab writer he was. Then again, I also feel this way about the Arctic Monkeys. But without the luvvie bit,......
A festival, a festival of nothing, nothing in the end, no thought of ending, ending in nothing, nothing without end, an end to end all ends, no thought in the end, no -
Sorry, sorry. But you need to make this mans acquaintance. Few dramatists have been as consistently witty and wise since Oscar Wilde.
...As the play was going to last 90 minutes without any real break, Joe pointed out that it wouldn't be a good plan to have half a dozen pints inside your gut, or you'd be up and out to the toilet every five minutes, which is not a good plan in a theatrical space so intimate the audience and the cast really ought to be close family. From my own point of view, I thought it would be a good idea anyway to have a few drinks, mainly because I feel that no Beckett play should be approached entirely sober.
So we went to South's where, instead of pints, we langered back several small Jamesons. Whack! Whack! Whack! Whack! Good. That's better. And thus suitably fortified, we wandered down the street to the Impact theatrical space, where we enjoyed a good, solid, funny hour and a half of black humour,...
Did I really say that? Sorry. I'd say it was the drink talking but why hide? Admittedly, though, we were slightly drunk. Hey - who's perfect?
Anyhow, tonight was even better. We were treated to three tasty crispy little nuggets. Catastrophe, Come and Go and Play. All performed superbly by fine committed actors.
Well done to everybody.
Personally, I loved the three girls on the bench.
Eh, sorry. Don't take that the way it might sound. I enjoyed the performance of the three girls on the bench.
Eh. It was very good. Go and see it.
those girls again:
L-R
Susanna Kelly
Louise Hegarty
Adrienne Lee
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Really enjoyed "Not I" the other evening. Greg, Shane and I also enjoyed "Footfalls" and "Rockaby". I think these plays could be viewed as the heavy metal of Beckett. Tough thought provoking and interesting. keep up the good work. Looking forward to "Endgame". Keep up the good work.
great stuff!
Excellent performance.
Endgame.
What could you say about it?
Ha!
Great!
Just so we all know, I did indeed manage to make it to the entire Impact Beckett season and it was superb. And I don't throw around words like "superb" willy-nilly.
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