Watt
From: Tuesday, 26th February 2013
To: Saturday, 16 March 2013
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Synopsis
Watt recounts the extraordinary story of an itinerant character who walks one day from a train station to the home of the mysterious Mr. Knott whom he will serve.
Our Review:
Michael Coveney - 4 March 2013
Barry McGovern - tall, gaunt, physically precise and vocally prodigious - is one of Ireland's greatest actors, and a Beckett specialist who is running out of roles. He's played both tramps and Lucky in Waiting for Godot, Clov in Endgame, Willie in Happy Days, Krapp and countless others in the short pieces and radio plays.
He first turned to Beckett's novels with a famous selection of extracts titled I'll Go On, and he goes on at the Barbican with his second visit, Watt, premiered at the Gate Theatre in Dublin in 2010 and rightly acclaimed at last year's Edinburgh International Festival.
Beckett wrote the novel on the run from the Gestapo during the war, and it's a curious mixture of Joycean word play, bizarre encounters, chop logic nonsense comedy and philosophical digression, as the unfortunate dreamer Watt travels from Dublin to the house of his employment with the mysterious Mr Knott, and back again.
Cast
Creative
Samuel Beckett (Author)
Gate Theatre Dublin (Producer)
Tom Creed (Director)
Joan O'Clery (Costume)
James mcConnell (Lighting)
Denis Clohessy (Sound)
Barry McGovern (after Samuel Beckett) (Music)
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