Following sold-out performances at the Royal Court and a critically acclaimed West End run, Not I / Footfalls / Rockaby – performed by Lisa Dwan – continues with a UK and International tour.
Due to sold out performances extra late night performance added at the Barbican on 4 June at 9.30pm
2 – 7 June Barbican Centre
TOUR DATES
22 – 26 July
Galway International Arts Festival
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19 – 21 August; 26 – 30 August
Southbank Centre
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2 – 6 Sep: The MAC (Belfast)
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9 – 13 Sep: Cambridge Arts Theatre
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16 – 20 Sep: Birmingham Rep (Studio)
Box Office: 0121 236 4455
23 – 27 Sep: The Lowry (Salford Quays)
Box Office 0843 208 6010
7-12 Oct: BAM, New York
14 – 20 Feb Perth Festival %20Footfalls,%20Rockaby
25 Feb – 1 March Hong Kong Arts Festival
11 – 15 March Barbican Centre
Beckett’s Not I is an intense monologue, set in a pitch-black space lit by a single beam of light. A disembodied female mouth floats eight feet above the stage and delivers a stream of consciousness, spoken, as Beckett directed, at the speed of thought. Lisa Dwan was tutored in the role by Billie Whitelaw, who originally performed the part at its 1973 UK premiere and was personally coached for the part by Beckett himself.
Footfalls is the moving story of May, a ghostly figure who paces back and forth like a metronome outside her dying mother’s room.
Completing the trilogy is Rockaby. Probably the most famous of Beckett’s last works, Rockaby explores loneliness and loss as a woman sits on her rocking chair recounting moments from her past.
Lisa Dwan has worked extensively in theatre, film and television both internationally and in her native Ireland. Film credits include; Oliver Twist and John Boorman’s Tailor of Panama and Bhopal – A Prayer for Rain due for release this year. In 2012, she adapted, produced and performed the critically acclaimed one woman play Beside the Sea at the South Bank Centre and on tour and starred in Goran Bregović’s new music drama, Margot, Diary Of An Unhappy Queen at the Barbican. She most recently performed in Ramin Gray’s production of Illusions by Ivan Viripaev at the Bush Theatre.
Walter Asmus directs. He was Beckett’s long-time friend and collaborator, assisting him on many of his productions at the Schiller Theatre in Berlin and for TV in Stuttgart. His production of Waiting for Godot, which toured extensively internationally, including in 2008 a one-night-only tour of the 32 counties of Ireland, was widely described as the ‘definitive production’.
Image Credit: John Haynes
Not I, Footfalls, Rockaby UK tour is produced in association with Cusack Projects Ltd
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