Following on from the highly acclaimed and hugely successful Laethanta Sona, the Irish language translation of Happy Days, which was performed on Inis Oírr, the Aran Islands in the Summer of 2023, Company SJ returns to the west of Ireland to perform Beckett in Irish this July.
Directed once again by Sarah Jane Scaife, who has also devised the show, Bekett sa Chreig: Guth na mBan weaves performances of Footfalls, Rockaby and Not I (Coiscéim, Luascaire and Ní Mé) into a presentation which also uses the tools of film, site, language, the body and visual art to explore Beckett’s engagement with the voices of his women. It explores trauma as formed by history and embodied socially through the family unit, reflected in the voices of the women in Becketts’ writing.
Described as being ‘inspired by the broken and haunted, colonial architecture of the capital city of Dublin, and the landscape, language, and imaginative construct of the West of Ireland’ the presentation will negotiate ‘Beckett’s exploration of human relationships’ while allowing ‘the Irish language seep into the searing beauty of the Beckettian imagery contained in the landscape of the island’.
Beckett sa Chreig: Guth na mBan runs from 11-19 July at An Taibhdhearc, Galway.
Full details and booking link here
Masthead: Still from Beckett sa Chreig: Guth na mBan (Arcade Film)
The Samuel Beckett Society 