About this Event
The University of Liverpool’s Institute of Irish Studies and The Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs, in association with Unreal Cities are pleased to present , 4 days of exploring Samuel Beckett’s wild fascination with communication and technology’s traversal of time and distance, across a programme of theatre, music, film, dance, photography, and discussion.
La Dernière Bande (Krapp's Last Tape)
Please note that these performances will be in French with English surtitles. Performances last approx 50 minutes.
Japanese scholar Miki Iwata writes of Krapp’s Last Tape that “it is well known that the events of the play are set one 'late evening in the future', because reel-to-reel audio tape recorder technology was still quite new in 1950s and the only way to make use of them to express a man's layers of memory was to shift the play's time axis…Beckett in this work seems quite conscious of the possibilities that this technology produces.”
Exposing the sometime bleakness of the recorded life, in Krapp’s Beckett lays bare the emotion that is imprinted on the magnetic layers of the tape, a medium which for us now has been transposed to the realm of the hyper-digital. Here in its UK début, director Jacques Osinski’s and actor Denis Lavant’s setting was heralded as “breathtaking” when it opened at the Avignon Festival in 2019.
Director: Jacques Osinski
Actor: Denis Lavant
Light: Catherine Verheyde
Set: Christophe Ouvrard
Costume: Hélène Kritikos
Dramturgy: Marie Potonet
Administration: Evelyne Jacquier
Photo: Pierre Grosbois
is funded by The Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool, the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs and Culture Ireland, and with thanks to University of Liverpool Alumni and Friends fund for their generous support of the Beckett Student Ambassador Scheme at the festival.
We are grateful to acknowledge additional funding received from The TS Eliot Foundation.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Stanley Theatre, 160 Mount Pleasant, Liverpool, United Kingdom
GBP 10.00
