2001/2002
Directed & designed by Judy Hegarty Lovett
CAST
Olwen Fouere
Lighting by Judy Hegarty Lovett
Costume by Catherine Fay
Photography by Amelia Stein
Production photography by Colm Hogan
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Judy Hegarty Lovett directs Olwen Fouere performing the integral text of this short prose fragment written in . Beckett wrote this short prose work under the tile Sans in 1969. In the strange, experiemental text he employs an aleatory method to arrange his text, “first in one disorder, then in another,” as he wrote. The resulting text has only residual narrative drive yet extraordinary evocative power, denying and affirming past and future, registering the capacity of the imagination to imagine its own extinction.
The production premiered at Kilkenny Arts Festival in 2002 and toured to Dublin and to the National Theatre in London.
Winner Best Actress (Olwen Fouere) Dublin Fringe Festival 2002
“An intense and different theatrical experience, as beguiling as it is mystifying” London Evening Standard
“A premiere to stop the breath in your throat…Wonderful…Devastating…adds to the director’s already impressive reputation” Sunday Independent
“Triumphant feat…Fouere’s performance is altogether remarkable…a nonpareil diva…Hegarty Lovett, a director of rare sensitivity.” The Irish Times
“Fouere delivers a truly definitive Beckettian performance” The Irish Examiner
Photo: Olwen Fouere in Lessness, photo by Amelia Stein