There is a history of terror on the part of those who have played Samuel Beckett’s Not I.
Since it was written in 1972 it is generally agreed there have been a mere handful of notable stage performances (for the purposes of this post and on the grounds of taste, we’ll not get started on the [...]
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For 2 nights at Southbank Centre hundreds of us chose to be plunged into total darkness and to watch a mouth – one small, pretty, human mouth positioned 8 foot above the stage and lit only by a single beam of light – and to listen to one voice – a racing, rhythmical stream-of-consciousness.
The mouth [...]
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Last night, I went to see a performance that lasted just nine minutes and fourty-seven seconds. Twenty-four hours later, it still resonates in my mind. What I saw was Lisa Dwan perform Samuel Beckett’s ‘Not I’. The performance, my first exposure to Beckett’s work, connected with me in a way that I haven’t experienced before.
Actors, with the [...]
Filed under: Global Poetry System, London Literature Festival 2009 | Tagged: Bille Whitelaw, Jude Kelly, Lisa Dwan, Not I, Purcell Room, Samuel Beckett | Leave a Comment »
