Arts Over Borders 2018 Brochure

n OT I & PA S M O I
by Samuel Beckett
FESTIVAL NEW
PRODUCTION
Ardhowen Theatre By the Lake
Saturday 4 August, 2pm | Sunday 5 August, 12.30pm
Tickets: £10 | Duration: 30mins
THIS ACCLAIMED PRODUCTION, which premiered at Happy Days’ Paris Beckett
Festival (2016), features a first ever back-to-back performance of Beckett’s
Not I and its French-language version, Pas Moi by the award-winning Frenchbased,
Irish actress Clara Simpson. In 2010 in a Corn Exchange production
Clara played Winnie in Happy Days directed by Annie Ryan.
Not I is a haunting piece, a sonic masterpiece, in which an unnamed woman,
visible only by her mouth, reflects on her life in a torrent of words. To hear
Beckett’s two languages side by side in one sitting
with, as Clara puts it, ‘no transition, one language
weaving into the other, to become a single piece’ is
as intense and mind-blowing a thirty minutes as you
will experience in a theatre.
Previous Festival Not I
productions included
Lisa Dwan at Portora
royal School (Beckett’s
School) in 2012 and the
Marble Arch Caves as
part of the Inferno
triptych in 2013.
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