Beckett’s Room

Beckett’s Room tells the story of the apartment in Paris where Samuel Beckett lived with his partner Suzanne Dechevaux-Dumesnil during the Second World War. A play without performers, the audience listen through headphones and gaze upon the apartment where a story unfolds as voices, footsteps and laughter are heard, Typewriters keys move, a coffee cup is raised, a wardrobe is opened, doors slammed – but the absence of bodies on stage focuses us intently on their stories. The production considers Samuel and Suzanne’s place within the French Resistance, questioning the price of artistic freedom in times of censorship, and what it means to stand up to a totalitarian regime. But it also speaks to us about the millions of other lives across Europe which were changed by conflict.