Beckett x 3

Synopsis

Beckett won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969 and is widely regarded as the father of Absurdist theatre. The first of the three short plays the Company will present is Act Without Words II, a mime piece which highlights the mundaneness of daily life as depicted by two tramps. Secondly, Play is a devastating recollection of a love triangle gone sour told from the funeral urns in which the three characters now rest. Finally, Not I is an endless stream of words spoken by a character who, after years of an apparent inability to speak, now seems unwilling to stop speaking at all.

Workshop Offer

A 60-minute post-show workshop for school groups is available after 1.00pm and 6.30pm performances. The workshops will be facilitated by the actors and will involve a series of activities which explore approaches to staging and performing absurd theatre.