From next Sunday, 3 December, a film adaptation of Not I by Joe Pietrolpaolo will be available to stream free of charge, courtesy of the director in conjunction with Georges Borchardt Inc., on behalf of the Samuel Beckett Estate. The film is based on a production of the play which was mounted in November 2022…
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“Jess Thom is a founding member of Touretteshero, a theatre company that celebrates the inherent creativity and humour in Tourette’s. She is taking on Samuel Beckett’s Not I, a rapidly delivered monologue spokenby a character called Mouth. Jess explains why the text captures her own experience of living with Tourette’s and her mission to make theatre more accessible.”
Read More“Deaf theatre maker Deepa Shastri offers a British Sign Language (BSL) synopsis for the Touretteshero and Battersea Arts Centre production of Samuel Beckett’s Not I. This video has no audio but has captions if required.”
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“Of all I’ve read in my life, and all that’s yet to come, what’s going to count? How much of it has changed me? How much has even marked me? How much has done both but I don’t know it yet? Readers get to make these discoveries in the privacy of their own heads. Writers must make them in public and then wear them in their back catalogues for as long as they have a readership who cares.”
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The production will run from 28 February to 17 March 2018. Visit the Battersea Arts Centre website for more information. If you are a member of the Samuel Beckett Society, you can also read a recent review of the Thom production in The Beckett Circle.
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In a 2016 interview for BOMB Magazine, Lisa Dwan and Walter Asmus talk to Michael Coffey about their collaboration on Beckett’s late plays
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Call for Papers • Tennessee Philological Association Conference, 23-25 February 2017
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University of Reading. 6pm, 2 November 2016
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The Samuel Beckett Society 