Beckett Centenary Festival
Samuel Beckett Centenary Festival to run in Dublin throughout April.
The first ever Samuel Beckett Festival was held in the Gate Theatre in Dublin back in 1991. This Dublin theatrical festival consisted of producing 19 of Samuel Beckett's stage plays in a unique tribute with its partners Trinity College -Beckett's alma mater- and RTÉ. Since then the festival has toured to New York and London receiving a fantastic response.
This April, the Beckett Centenary Festival will be opened again in Dublin. 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.
Some of Beckett's real 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 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.
This is a jampacked festival with other events including art exhibitions at the Royal Hibernian Academy and the Douglas Hyde Gallery; photography exhibitions; a film festival at the Irish Film Institute; an Academic Symposium at Trinity College; music recitals at the National Concert Hall; radio and television documentaries and plays on RTÉ.
In April 2006, Dublin will experience a unique celebration of one of Ireland's foremost writers, Nobel Laureate Samuel Beckett. At the end of February full details of the programme of celebrations in the Beckett Centenary Festival will be announced.
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Beckett Centenary Festival
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Dublin 1.
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