Washington, DC will join hundreds of cities worldwide in celebrating the hundredth birthday of Irish playwright Samuel Beckett with its own Beckett Centenary Festival next month. Click for events and details...
The Beckett Centenary Festival Events include: the international tour of the Gate Theatre's production of Waiting for Godot at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; free screenings of Beckett films; the international exhibition of Samuel Beckett - A Centenary Celebration commissioned by the Cultural Division of Ireland’s Department of Foreign Affairs; presentations of selected Beckett radio plays with a free listening party; a symposium at the University of Maryland featuring prominent Beckett scholars and an evening of theater; a book club discussion of selected Beckett novels; and resident productions of selected shorter works coupled with readings of prose and poetry by the producing partners of the Beckett Centenary Festival.
The festival will run October 3rd through 15th, 2006, at various venues throughout the Washington, DC Metro Area.
History:
July 27th -30th at 9pm
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Washington
Post names Solas Nua's production
"Pick
of the Fringe"
"As
daringly theatrical as anything I've seen at Fringe -- and impressively
assured."
"It's a bold play, and a bolder choice to stage it in a pool"
"See it if: You appreciate risk, atmospherics,
language, and the feeling of privilege that comes from sitting on the
pool deck with a ticket while dog-walking Georgetowners clutch their
wineglasses on the park sward, watching curiously from outside the fence.
Skip it if: You're dull enough to think theater belongs
only on a stage."
Trey Graham - Washington
City Paper
2nd
- 26th March, 2006.
by
Marina Carr.
Directed by Caroline Kenney & Linda Murray
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January
11th- February 5th, 2006
Directed by Linda Murray.
Featuring Eric Messner & Dan Brick
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October 27th - November 20th, 2005
Misterman by Enda Walsh
The Washington Post: “In the hands of a performer
as adroit as Brick, Walsh's succinct, compelling story really doesn't
need much embellishment. Still, for such a spare production, 'Misterman'
does have some neat tricks.” In Misterman we enter the head of
Thomas Magill, an unstable man in his mid- thirties, whose confused
mission is to bring God to his
fellow townsfolk of Inishfree.
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June
and July, 2005
Disco Pigs by Enda Walsh
“Stellar Theater”, according to, The Washington Post, and
the other critics agreed that Solas Nua’s debut theatrical production
was indeed stellar. Presented at the Church Street Theater, our production
of Disco Pigs introduced Enda Walsh and Solas Nua to Washington D.C.,
with “an auspicious theatrical debut” (The Washington Examiner).
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