Beckett’s life, gravely played by Gabriel Bryne, unspools magnificently in a sequence of austere performed memories. Continue reading
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Irish Film Festival Reviews: Tarrac & Dance First, That They May Face the Rising Sun, and more.
Tarrac, a heart-warming Irish language comedy drama set on the Kerry coast in Dingle… Joyce feels like someone we can know, though probably not like very much….The scaffolding and the bedrock of this visually sumptuous film is what it does with landscapes and cloudscapes and the imposition of the human impress on them. Continue reading
Symbiosis between an Artist and their Work
While Beckett’s encounter with Joyce teaches him he must follow a different creative path from Joyce’s to achieve his purposes, the same cannot be said of Lucia. Continue reading
What’s On in June and beyond…
A Miscellany: Plays, Bloomsday, Christmas in July, Lughnasa Bacon and Cabbage, Talks, Music, singing, Dancing Continue reading
Bizarre Love Triangle: James Joyce, Samuel Beckett and Lucia Joyce
Did Beckett seduce Lucia Joyce? Did she seduce him? Was the relationship all in her head? Was it consummated? And history’s difficulty is the author’s opportunity, Continue reading
Gillies does Beckett
A one-man meditation on memory, mortality, identity, ambition, desire, loss, waning powers and more, Krapp’s Last Tape comes to Melbourne in Laurence Strangio’s production precisely 60 years after its first performance at London’s Royal Court Continue reading
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