samuel-beckett
Broadway is being subjected to a steady parade of Hollywood names parachuting into familiar titles, propped up by prestige directors and stratospheric ticket prices.
“For this season, I did not want us to do a ‘greatest hits.’ I did not want to limp away. This is our last full and robust season, but not our last time producing plays.”
Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
In his virtuoso one-man show, Bill Irwin pays adroit homage to the language and vision of Samuel Beckett.
“Samuel Beckett’s work speaks to me because he’s a very visceral writer. And, because I have training as a clown, I think of him as a natural clown.”
To be truly effective black humor must have us laughing at something we fear, regret, or at the very least recognize.
“If you’ll excuse me for being cheeky, it’s a collaboration between the players on stage and Beckett’s works.”
Lisa Dwan’s performance of these Beckett pieces in a totally darkened theater is powerful and, in the case of Not I, deliciously revelatory.
Theater Preview: Beckett, Williams, Beau Jest, and “Last Call” for Provincetown’s Tennessee Williams Festival
When Beau Jest Moving Theatre heard this was to be the last fully-produced year of the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival, and that this year’s theme was Last Call — a look at the work of Williams in conversation with the work of Samuel Beckett — we knew we wanted to be a part of it.
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