GARE ST LAZARE IRELAND
THE BECKETT TRILOGY
Gare St Lazare Ireland is delighted to make its fifth visit to The Coronet and celebrate its 10th anniversary and a long and fruitful collaboration. The visit also marks ten years of collaboration with lighting designer Simon Bennison.
The company is grateful to Culture Ireland for its continued support of international touring.
Later this year the company will present The End by Samuel Beckett at Beckett Festival de Rousillon, France It will premiere a new show, Shades Through A Shade in Dublin in September with the support of The Coronet. In November Judy Hegarty Lovett will direct a new production of Waiting For Godot at Geffen Playhouse, Los Angeles in association Gare St Lazare Ireland and featuring Conor Lovett, Aasif Mandvi and Rainn Wilson.
Thu 20 - Sat 22 June
Running Order:
MOLLOY (1 hour)
20 min interval
MALONE DIES (55 minutes)
Short pause - 5 minutes
THE UNNAMABLE (40 minutes)
CAST AND CREATIVE TEAM
From the novels Molloy, Malone Dies & The Unnamable written by Samuel Beckett
Texts selected and treated by Conor Lovett and Judy Hegarty Lovett
Directed and designed by Judy Hegarty Lovett
Performed by Conor Lovett
Lighitng Design by Simon Bennison
Assistant Lighting Designer
Jonathan Chan
Production Assistant Matt Scaburri
Produced by Maura O’Keeffe and Gare St Lazare Ireland
The texts were written intended to be read and are presented here with the kind permission of The Estate of Samuel Beckett.
The three novels, Molloy, Malone Dies & The Unnamable, written at the same time as Waiting for Godot, made up what the writer considered his “Important work”. Acclaimed actor Conor Lovett and awardwinning director Judy Hegarty Lovett give powerful life to the essence of each of these novels in the production that established them as leading exponents of Beckett’s work.
In Molloy a man recounts his effort to visit his aging mother. En route he is arrested for indecently resting and encounters an old woman and her dog with dire consequences. Molloy is one of Beckett’s most poignant characters whose view of society, and the world, is as funny as it is true.
Malone Dies begins with the narrator Malone on his deathbed, telling himself stories as he bides his time. He finally hits on a character, McMann, whose story involving an asylum, a lunatic nurse and an Easter Sunday outing to the islands, resulting in a bloodbath.
The Unnamable dispenses with story entirely as the nameless narrator tries to make sense of his existence. Beckett’s beautiful investigation of inner turmoil is intensely unforgettable.. The novel ends with Beckett’s famous lines, “I can’t go on, I must go on, I’ll go on. ”
The Beckett Trilogy was first performed in 2001.
Photos by Ros Kavanagh
GARE ST LAZARE IRELAND
Gare St Lazare Ireland’s director Judy Hegarty Lovett and actor Conor Lovett continue to add to more than 26 Beckett titles spanning drama, radio drama, short stories and novels. They were last at The Coronet in 2022 with the sell-out How It Is (Part 2) performed by Lovett and Stephen Dillane.
The company tours internationally with its critically acclaimed presentations of Beckett’s prose works and plays. In Ireland they have toured to over 60 theatres and to over 100 more around the Globe. In all they have performed Beckett in 83 cities in 21 countries on 5 continents. They have recently opened a Beckett dedicated Artists’ Residence in France.
Gare St Lazare Ireland are in receipt of funding from The Arts Council of Ireland, Culture Ireland, The Ireland Funds and small number of Private sponsors. To support our work please contact us via our website http://garestlazareireland.com/atelier-alt.
Photos by Ros Kavanagh
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