The Kilkenny Arts Festival presents another landmark in Gare St Lazare Ireland’s engagement with Samuel Beckett. The Last Tape is Romanian composer Marcel Mihalovici’s operatic collaboration with the Irish author. This production offers a rare opportunity to encounter one of Beckett’s few opera collaborations for its Irish premiere in a new hybrid version melding the opera and the original play.…
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Gare St Lazare Ireland are to stage the complete version of Beckett’s prose work How it is at this year’s Venice Biennale in collaboration with Berggruen Arts & Culture. The production, directed by Judy Hegarty Lovett with design collaboration by artist Michael Craig Martin, draws on the three separate productions of parts I, II &…
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Final rehearsals are underway in Los Angeles for a major production of Waiting for Godot which will open in November. A fascinating production witnesses a collaboration between the Geffen Playhouse and world-renowned Beckett interpreters Gare St Lazare Ireland – fresh from their Dublin Theatre Festival success with Shades Through a Shade. The cast includes Lincoln…
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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…
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A watercolour portrait of Samuel Beckett (above) by his friend, the major Irish painter Louis le Brocquy (1916-2012), is to be auctioned in Dublin to raise funds for a signficant new Beckett project. The lot is included in the Adam’s Important Irish Art sale which takes place on Wednesday 27 September in Dublin and which…
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“A novel by Samuel Beckett has been adapted for the stage for the first time by a University of Reading student.
Judy Hegarty-Lovett, a PhD student in Film, Theatre and Television (FTT) and an established theatre practitioner, drew on the university’s world-leading Samuel Beckett Collection to influence her direction of How It Is.
The play opened in Cork, Ireland, in February and has just finished a run at The Print Room in Notting Hill, London.”
Critics described the production of How It Is as a ‘mesmerising adaptation’ and ‘ambitious’ and ‘ingenious’.”
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“While Beckett is often seen as impenetrable and difficult, there is so much in this work that is strangely comfortable and familiar. There are many rewards to be found in it if you abandon the compulsion to make sense of it all, and just let it wash over you.
At the end, by whatever strange alchemy is wrought I feel enervated and alive rather than consumed by existential angst. A tale of the unexpected.”
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Victoria Myers talks to Judy Hegarty Lovett about her work with Gare St Lazare Ireland
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Colette Sheridan: “It is going to be a verbatim performance. But is it very grim? After all, the narrator exists in the mud-dark and ends up in solitude after the other creature disappears. The text has drawn comparisons with Dante’s image of souls gulping mud in the Stygian marsh of the Inferno.”
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The Irish Examiner: “[Stephen Dillane] is in Cork to rehearse for How It Is, a production of Samuel Beckett’s little-known 1962 novel. It has been adapted by Gare St Lazare Players, the Irish theatre company who have been to the fore in interpreting and performing the writer’s work for almost two decades.”
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The Samuel Beckett Society 