Leading Beckett interpreters and innovators Gare St Lazare Ireland are premiering a new show at this year’s Dublin Theatre Festival. Directed by Judy Hegarty Lovett the piece is described as a ‘new exploration of Beckett and Dante in a show that seeks to combine literary embraces and repulsions of divine intervention and what it might mean to make art. With music by Irish composer Benedict Schlepper-Connolly, visual art by printmaker Morgan Doyle and an international ensemble of actors, musicians and singers’.
Titled Shades Through a Shade, we are informed that the show ‘follows Beckett’s character Belacqua from More Pricks than Kicks to his roots in Dante’s Divine Comedy, embarking on a journey that links mystics and philosophers across the ages. The assembly of actors and musicians will traverse the sublime writings of Dante, Herman Melville, Beckett, Hildegard von Bingen, Julian of Norwich, Jean-Luc Nancy, and St. Augustine, celebrating these works through song, word and connection with an original score’.
Shades Tough a Shade runs from 23 to 28 September at the Samuel Beckett Theatre, Trinity College Dublin. Further information and booking can be accessed here.
The Samuel Beckett Society 