Samuel Beckett Centenary Festival

A cornucopia of Beckett performances and events in Dublin beginning on 1st April!

The Samuel Beckett Centenary Festival in Dublin will include over twenty events celebrating Beckett's mastery of drama and prose. Nobel Laureate Samuel Beckett was one of Ireland's most significant writers whose work continues to be performed worldwide.

The Samuel Beckett Centenary Festival will honour this accomplished Irish writer through theatre, art and exhibitions, film, music and photography. The Gate Theatre will play a dominant role in the celebrations. New stage productions of Beckett's plays will be performed at the Gate theatre and at the Barbican Festival in London.

Nine of Beckett's gems will be performed at the Gate Theatre  in Dublin. Highlights include; Waiting for Godot and new productions of Endgame, Rockaby, Ohio Impromptu, Play, Catastrophe, Footfalls and Come and Go. Directors Loveday Ingram, Charles Sturridge, Atom Egoyan, Robin Lefèvre, Alan Gilsenan, Walter Asmus and Michael Caven will all take part in this Dublin Festival.

The Project Arts Centre will host a production called Beckett's Ghosts presented by Bedrock Productions. This is a rare opportunity to see some of Beckett's later plays that have been described as some of the most dramatic works of the last century.

The Dublin Beckett festival will include lots of outdoor events. Street performers and animators will perform Motion Images inspired by Becketts plays. American artist Jenny Holzer will cast projections of quotations from Beckett's writings onto Dublin landmarks.

The Samuel Beckett Centenary Festival includes a host of events alongside performance art. The Royal Hibernian Academy and the Douglas Hyde Gallery will art, photography exhibitions and a film festival will take place.

The Beckett Centenary Festival also encompasses music with an Academic Symposium at Trinity College and music recitals at the National Concert Hall.

During the month of April, Samuel Beckett's work will be celebrated at the Centenary Festival in Dublin.

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Plays shown at the Gate Theatre
Irish Film Insitute Festival of Beckett Film
Beckett's Ghosts
Art at the Samuel Beckett Festival

Beckett Centenary Festival
Gate Theatre
1 Cavendish Row
Dublin 1.
Tel: 874 4045
Web: Gate Theatre