Arts Over Borders 2018 Brochure

T H E O L D T u n E
by Samuel Beckett
Directed by Conall Morrison
Starring Barry McGovern & Eamon Morrissey
FESTIVAL NEW
PRODUCTION
Strule Arts Centre, Omagh
Wednesday 1 August 1, 8pm
The regal, Enniskillen
Friday 3 August, 6.30pm
Saturday 4 August, 3pm and 8.30pm
Sunday 6 August, 5.30pm
Tickets: £10 | Duration: 40mins
TWO MEN LIVING on the margins of society, struggling to communicate,
facing isolation and memory loss; it’s not hard to see why Beckett was drawn
to his friend Robert Pinget’s play La Manivelle (The Crank) and offered to
translate it into English. But Beckett went further than most translators,
transposing the setting to Dublin and changing the characters, Gorman and
Cream, to Irishmen.
This new production is directed by Conall Morrison (whose Woyzeck in
Winter received rave reviews in Galway and London last year). It’s being
staged in The Regal in the heart of Enniskillen, a perfect setting with its
atmosphere of faded 1950’s glory, and it stars two iconic Irish actors, Barry
McGovern and Eamon Morrissey. This is a rare opportunity to see both
The Old Tune itself and two of Ireland’s finest theatre actors performing on
stage together.
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