How It Is (Part 2) - Digital Programme

GARE ST LAZARE IRELAND

HOW IT IS (PART 2)

BY SAMUEL BECKETT

A CO-PRODUCTION WITH THE CORONET THEATRE IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE EVERYMAN THEATRE (CORK) FUNDED BY THE ARTS COUNCIL OF IRELAND AND CULTURE IRELAND

WELCOME FROM ANDA WINTERS We’re delighted to welcome back Gare St Lazare Ireland to The Coronet Theatre with the second instalment of this captivating text.

This is now our fifth collaboration with Judy Hegarty Lovett, Conor Lovett, and the outstanding GSLI team, with our creative relationship beginning in 2015 with Title and Deed by Will Eno - an award-winning production that took our old Print Room space by storm. In 2016, together we presented Beckett In London, an ambitious festival of Beckett’s prose on stage featuring theatre, music and visual art over several days. More recently, we began our journey exploring Beckett’s epic prose work, How It is, by staging Part 1 in 2018.

Our creative relationship with Gare St Lazare Ireland is a special collaboration for the Coronet Theatre and continues to develop and flourish.

Photo– David Jensen

Their work is created with such care, detail and reverence - they present the worlds that Beckett evokes with such ingenuity. Stephen and Conor are captivating to watch and Judy’s production has transformed our auditorium with the incredible Mel Mercer & Irish Gamelan Orchestra - offering our audiences a whole new, in the round, perspective on our unique theatre.

Originally scheduled to be performed in 2020, it is a joy and a pleasure to see it finally able to receive its UK Premiere after the delays due to the pandemic. This production stands as a testament to the passion, ingenuity and resolve of our exceptional artistic partners and team.

Anda Winters Artistic Director The Coronet Theatre

WELCOME FROM THE DIRECTOR JUDY HEGARTY LOVETT Global Diverse and Dynamic.

In 2019 Gare St. Lazare Ireland presented How It Is (Part 2) at the Everyman Theatre in Cork.

Seven years in to the process of staging this enigmatic novel I look back and see a collaboration with artists from around the world, rehearsed in so many diverse places across the globe.

We began the journey on Part 1 of this three part novel in 2015 intending stage to all three parts by 2021. A filmed version was made of the full 3 part novel for Dublin Theatre Festival last year and now we return to the stage.

The value of time and a type of excavation through multiple venues and mediums has layered our understanding and appreciation of both the relationship to the work and our collaborative process.

Through sustained touring and performance I can look at the evolution of How It Is (all parts) and see that it benefits from its time; in a coffee roasters back room in Vermont, at The National Theater institute rehearsal rooms in Connecticut, a seminar performance at Lincoln Centre, New York, a yurt rehearsal in Sussex, a performance at the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris, in the meditative gamelan rooms at University of Limerick, the vaulted rooms at the School of Music at University College Cork, at the Samuel Beckett Theatre for the Beckett Summer School at Trinity College Dublin, in our own stone cave studio in France, on a dairy farm an hour south of London, in the wood panelled library of the Crawford Art Gallery in Cork, an online preview and an online symposium, in the ‘Palace of Sound’ known as The Everyman in Cork and here at the

exquisite Coronet Theatre. So before the work reaches opening night we hope to bring you our audience with us on this journey towards the majesty of Beckett’s masterpiece.

Judy Hegarty Lovett Joint Artistic Director Gare St Lazare Ireland

HOW IT IS (PART 2) Written by Samuel Beckett Produced by Gare St Lazare Ireland in a co-production with The Coronet Theatre (London) and in association with The Everyman Theatre (Cork) Presented with The Kind Permission of The Estate Samuel Beckett under licence by Curtis brown Group

CREATIVE TEAM Directed and designed by Judy Hegarty Lovett Text performed by Conor Lovett and Stephen Dillane` Music composed by Mel Mercier and the Irish Gamelan Orchestra Music performed by Mel Mercier, the Irish Gamelan Orchestra, Cathal Roche and Claudia Schwab Lighting designed by Simon Bennison Lighting Assistant and Board Operated by Hanan Sheedy Original lighting design (Cork 2019) by Michael Hurley Produced by Maura O’Keeffe Indonesian Embassy Gamelan coordinator John Pawson

Funded by The Arts Council Of Ireland Culture Ireland The Irish Embassy in London The Indonesian Embassy in London With Special Thanks to Grant Gee: Videographer and Filmaker.

The Orchestra for the Age of Enlightement Anda Winters and the team at The Coronet Theatre Paul and Deb Gwinn Suzi Wilson and Paul Clark of Clod Ensemble Naomi Wirthner The World Academy of music and Dance UL The music Department at University College Cork Flynn Hotels and The Doyle Collection Cork City Council.

IRISH GAMELAN ORCHESTRA Claudia Schwab Conor Soltan Eimear Hurley Eimear O’Donovan Fidelma Hanrahan James McGlynn JJ Riordan Kelly Boyle Kevin McNally Laila Jedir Mel Mercier Muireann Levis Sinead Hanrahan Songs (Der Leiermann Der Jager and Nacht und Traume) Sung by Claudia Schwab; Composed by Franz Schubert; Originally sung by Mark Padmore

PRODUCTION SHOTS (CORK 2019)

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CAST Conor Lovett Trained at Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris, Conor has performed over 18 Beckett roles in 21 productions. Joint artistic director of Gare St Lazare Ireland he has toured to over 84 cities in 25 countries with the company. Beckett work with Gare St Lazare includes Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable, Texts For Nothing, First Love, The End, The Calmative, Here All Night and How It Is, all directed by Judy Hegarty Lovett. He has also been directed by Walter Asmus in A Piece of Monologue (for Gare St Lazare) and Waiting For Godot (in productions for The Gate Theatre, Dublin and Rubicon Theatre, Los Angeles). He has also performed A Piece of Monologue with Corcadorca and Acts Without Words 1 and 2 and What Where (for The Gate Theatre, Dublin.)

Other theatre work includes Leaves (Druid/ Royal Court), The Bull (Fabulous Beast), The Feast During The Plague (Clod Ensemble), Orpheus (Steeple) and The Oginski Polonaise (The Gate, London).

Nominations and Awards include, The Stage Best Actor nominee Edinburgh 1997, Best Performer 2007 Santa Barbara Independent, Irish Theatre Awards Judges Special Prize nominee 2008 and Best Actor nominee 2009, Lucille Lortel nominee for Outstanding Solo Performance 2012, The Stage Award for Acting Excellence 2014, Off West End Best Actor nominee 2014 and Shanghai Theatre Festival Awards in 2011 (Moby Dick) and 2013 (Waiting For Godot).

Stephen Dillane Prior to the Cork premier of How It Is (Part 2) Stephen Dillane’s latest theatre work was in Martin Crimp’s When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other at the National Theatre in London in February. Stephen last performed at The Coronet Theatre with Gare St Lazare Ireland in How It Is (Part 1). Previous London work includes Faith Healer, the Abbey production of Dancing at Lughnasa (at the NT), Endgame, Hamlet, The Real Thing (also in New York), Uncle Vanya, Macbeth (also in LA, Sydney and Adelaide), Coast of Utopia, Long Day’s Journey into Night, Hush, The Masterbuilder, Drunk Enough to Say I Love You, Angels in America, Four Quartets and a production of Schubert’s Winterreisse interspersed with Beckett poems called One Evening (with Mark Padmore).

TV and film work includes: The Tunnel, John Adams, The Crown, The Killing of Thomas Hurndall, Game of Thrones, Welcome to Sarajevo, The Hours, Spygame, Darkest Hour and Outlaw King.

He has also collaborated with Tacita Dean on two films: Antigone and Event for a Stage which have shown.

Stephen has won an International Emmy Award for Best Performance by an Actor for The Tunnel his theatre work has won him a Tony Award, Drama Desk Award and Evening Standard Award for Best Actor.

CREATIVE TEAM Judy Hegarty-Lovett Director Dr. Judy Hegarty-Lovett has a PhD from University of Reading , a degree in Fine Art from Crawford College, Cork and a post graduate degree in Dramatherapy from University of Hertfordshire. She has directed all but one of Gare St Lazare Ireland’s 23 Beckett titles since 1996 when she directed Conor Lovett in Molloy by Samuel Beckett at Riverside Studios, London and at Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Other Beckett titles include Waiting for Godot, Rockaby, Malone Dies, The Unnamable, Lessness, Enough, Texts For Nothing, Worstward Ho, All That Fall, Embers, Cascando, Words and Music, The Old Tune, Rough For Radio 1 & 2, First Love, The Calmative, The End, How It Is , Ill Seen Ill Said and the collaborative music/ visual art creation, Here all Night. Other nonBeckett directing credits includes Copenhagen (Los Angeles Times critics pick), Title and Deed

by Will Eno (New York Times/New Yorker/Time Out NY critics picks), Moby Dick by Herman Melville (adapted by Judy with Conor Lovett), Swallow by Michael Harding, Tanks a Lot by Judy Hegarty Lovett and Raymond Keane and The Good Thief by Conor McPherson.

Judy’s work has been nominated and awarded in London, Berlin, Boston, Dublin, Edinburgh, New York, Santa Barbara and Shanghai. and has been nominated for 7 Irish Times Theatre Awards, with 2018’s How It Is (Part 1) winning Best Soundscape (Mel Mercier) and Best Lighting (Kris Stone) in 2019. In 2020 Judy was nominated for Best Director for How It Is (Part 2) at The Everyman.

Mel Mercier Composer/Founder of Irish Gamelan Orchestra Mel Mercier is a multi-award-winning, Tonynominated composer and sound designer. Mel has collaborated with Deborah Warner and Fiona Shaw for nearly 20 years and with Gare St Lazare Ireland for the last 4 years on How It Is (Part 1) and How It Is (Part 2). Mel is the Director of the Irish Gamelan Orchestra and Professor and Chair of Performing Arts at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at the University of Limerick.

CREATIVE TEAM Recent lighting for theatre includes The Beckett Trilogy for Gare St Lazare at Lincoln Center, New York and a Samuel Beckett repertoire for Gare St Lazare of Here all Night, The Beckett Trilogy, The End, First Love and recreating the artwork Hello Sam by Brian O’Doherty. For the Print Room he has lit Title & Deed, The Dead Dogs and Ivy & Joan.

Recent lighting for Opera includes, Swanhunter (Opera North), Rita and The Bear (Royal Opera).

Simon Bennison Lighting designer From Manchester and trained in Music Composition at the University of Surrey, Lighting and Design at RADA and the Yale School of Drama, in Architecture at University of North London and Music at Salford University.

Recent lighting for Ballet & Dance includes, Ondine (Bolshoi Ballet), Le Baisir de la Fee (Perm Ballet), Romeo & Julia (Royal Ballet of Flanders & Ekaterinburg Ballet). Other pieces include If Play is Play and Three & Four Quarters (Headspace Dance Company), Tarantella, Elizabeth, Ballo della Regina, See Even Night Herself is Here and Carousel Pas de Deux and Les Lutins (Royal Ballet).

Fourteen works for Cathy Marston, (Royal Ballet/ Bern Ballet), Sea of Troubles (English National Ballet. Previous productions with Viacheslav Samodurov include Non Linear Interactions and Tric-Trac (Royal Ballet), and In a Minor Key (Mikhailovsky Ballet). As an Associate to Lucy Carter he co-designed Titian:Metamorphosis and Ravengirl (Royal Ballet). And has revived Wayne McGregor repertoire for Canadian National Ballet, Darmstadt State Ballet, Polish National Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, Pittsburgh Ballet, Boston Ballet, Mariinsky Ballet, Royal Ballet of Flanders and the Australian Ballet.

Scenes from an Execution (Dundee Repertory Theatre) and In a Minor Key, were both nominated for lighting design awards in Scotland and Russia, and Before the Tempest … After the Storm, (Cathy Marston), was filmed and broadcast for BBC3.

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GARE ST LAZARE IRELAND Gare St Lazare Ireland (GSLI) is an Irish theatre company run by joint artistic directors Judy Hegarty Lovett & Conor Lovett and associate producer Maura O’Keeffe. Over 23 years it has toured work all over Ireland and around the world. With over 17 titles by Samuel Beckett in the repertory the company has built a reputation as premier exponents of the Nobel prizewinning Irish author’s work with a particular emphasis on his prose and novels.

The company is committed to touring, initially in Ireland and then abroad, and its 2018 Irish tour to 7 venues of Here All Night, featuring texts by Samuel Beckett was the company’s 18th national tour since 1997. GSLI has performed in over 83 cities in 25 countries worldwide.

Forging strong links with festivals and theatres in Ireland and abroad is a priority for GSLI. For example it has presented 8 times at Kilkenny Arts Festival and 3 times at Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival in the USA where it has great relations with companies and festivals in California, Boston, New York and Connecticut among others. In 2013 the company made a conscious decision to increase its level of creative and producing collaborations and co-produced Waiting For Godot with Dublin Theatre Festival, a show that toured to Belfast, Boston, New York and Shanghai. The same year the company worked with composer Paul Clark and musician Caoimhín Ó’Raghallaigh to create Here All Night, a performance for solo singer, solo actor, 3 musicians and a female choir. It combines music, song, theatre and visual art to celebrate music and musicality in Beckett’s work and performed in Brighton, London, Paris, New York and Boston prior to its Irish premiere at the Abbey in 2018.

In 2015 sound designer/composer Mel Mercier committed to a long-term creative collaboration joining director Judy Hegarty Lovett and actor Conor Lovett for 3 productions for each of

the 3 parts of How It Is, one of Beckett’s most enigmatic and ground-breaking novels. In 2017 actor Stephen Dillane joined the project and in January 2018 How It Is (Part 1) was produced at The Everyman. The project continues and Part 3 is planned for September 2020. The company has hosted 2 academic symposia around this singular Irish novel, most recently at the Crawford Art Gallery for Cork Midsummer Festival.

In New York Gare St Lazare has had three off-Broadway runs; Molloy at The Irish Arts Center, First Love at The Public Theater, and Title and Deed by Will Eno at Signature Theatre and has presented three shows at Lincoln Center’s prestigious White Light Festival. In August 2014 Title and Deed played at Edinburgh Festival where it won The Stage Award for Acting Excellence in the Fringe. The same year First Love performed at The Arcola London, receiving nominations for Best Director and Best Actor in the Off-West End Awards.

In 2009 Conor Lovett & Judy Hegarty Lovett adaptated Moby Dick by Herman Melville.

Performed with live fiddle accompaniment

by Caoimhín Ó’Raghallaigh, the production tours twice to USA in 2019 marking Melville’s 200th anniversary.

Much of Gare St Lazare Ireland’s international touring is supported by Culture Ireland. It also receives funding from The Arts Council to make work and has also been funded by Cork City Council, Cork County Council and Dublin City Council. It also benefits from a strong funding relationship with Vermont Coffee Company as well as gifts from individuals in Ireland, the UK and the USA. The company has created a number of innovative producing partnerships around the world. From 2015 – 2018 Gare St Lazare were Theatre Artists in Residence at The Everyman in Cork thus cementing an already strong relationship with the venue that it is proud to continue.

THE CORONET THEATRE TEAM Artistic Director Anda Winters

FOH and Bar Manager Rachel Goodsall

Executive Director Kevin Fitzmaurice

Duty Managers Francesca Battinieri Katurah Morrish Renata Wilson

Consultant Producer Hetty Shand Programme Coordinator (Maternity leave) Julia Gillespie Programme Coordinator Emma Smith Associate Producer Cathy Lewis Head of Development Raphaëlle Rodocanachi Development & Marketing Assistant (Maternity leave) Dahna Borojević Digital Marketing Officer Alex Hick Poetry Coordinator Marion Manning Bookkeeper Andrew Michel Head of Production & Operations Andy McDonald Chief Electrician Alex Ramsden Production Technician Alex Walton Theatre Administrator/ PA to the Artistic Director Taeyong Sim Press Representative Sharon Kean

Front of House Staff Sara Beranek Hvattum Matilde Correia Godelieve de Bree Ivana Dieli Adrielle Felciano Olamatu Jabbie Maria Lisberg-Jonasson Brian Maitland Alexia McDonald Nadia Qashou Sofia Victoria Trustees Linda Bernhardt Mike Fisher Mimi Gilligan Jane Quinn Anda Winters Bill Winters (Chair)

THE IRISH GAMELAN ORCHESTRA The Irish Gamelan Orchestra (IGO) was established in 2013 with the aim of developing a collaborative approach to the composition and performance of new music for gamelan. Led by Musical Director Mel Mercier and Assistant Directors Kelly Boyle and Kevin McNally, the 14-member ensemble performs a repertoire of original music, which is co-created with a variety of artists across a wide range of genres.

In How It Is (Part 2), the IGO performs newly composed music on the instruments of the Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia (London) gamelan, Gita Nuswantara. The instruments of Gita Nuswantara were made in 2017, by the gongsmith Pak Supoyo and his team of gamelan makers at his forge in the Sukoharjo region, near the court city of Surakarta, Central Java.

The ensemble is joined by Claudia Schwab (voice/violin) and Cathal Roche (saxophone/ clarinet).

The Javanese gamelan is an orchestra of 60-plus tuned percussion instruments – bronze gongs and metallophones, drums, wooden flute and two-stringed fiddle – which, together, create distinctive and rich sonorities. The instruments of the gamelan are arranged into two tonal families: slendro and pelog. Slendro has five, almost equally spaced notes in the octave, and pelog has seven, variously spaced notes in the octave.

and actors, including Fiona Shaw, Duke Special, Martin Hayes, Brooklyn Rider, Joseph O’ Connor, Iarla Ó Lionáird, Julie Feeney, Colin Dunne, Kate Ellis, West Cork Ukulele Orchestra, Nick Roth, Caitríona O’Leary, Nic Gareiss and Diane Daly.

The Sligo-based Austrian violinist, singer, yodeler and composer Claudia Schwab is a founding member of the IGO. Claudia also performs with a wide range of Irish and international artists, and she has released two solo CDs. Claudia was a recipient of the Irish National Concert Hall/Sounding the Feminists Female Commissioning Scheme in 2019.

Cathal Roche is one of Ireland’s leading improvising saxophonists and spatial music composers. Cathal has developed a personal saxophone sound language over a 20-year period of working in both solo and collaborative performance-installation contexts. He is a studio artist at The Model, Sligo where he is currently extending his solo practice into immersive work for fulldome gallery installation through support from the Arts Council of Ireland.

Gamelan Gita Nuswantara The IGO is delighted to perform on the beautiful instruments of Gamelan Gita Nuswantara.

The word, ‘gita’, comes from the ancient Sanskrit

The practice of composing new music for gamelan is thriving in Java and is common amongst ensembles outside of Indonesia. The IGO released its critically acclaimed debut CD, The Three Forges, in August 2015 on the Diatribe Records label. The album features a collection of original compositions performed by the ensemble in collaboration with a host of Irish and international guests.

word, geeta, which means song. ‘Nuswantara’ is

In the past, the ensemble has been joined on stage by a host of musicians, singers, dancers

arrange a rehearsal on the instruments is welcome to

formed of two words: Nuswa, which means a habitable place, a home, or Indonesia itself; and Antara, which means distance (space, length) between two things.

Wherever its melodies are heard, Gamelan Gita Nuswantara sounds the song of home.

Gamelan Gita Nuswantara is housed at the Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia, London, where it is used for gamelan classes. Any group that would like to do so.

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