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Beckett in The City: The Women Speak (Fall 2017)
Not I, Footfalls, Rockaby, and Come and Go by Samuel Beckett
Saturday, September 23, 2017 at 2:00PM

Irish Arts Center
553 West 51st Street
New York, NY 10019
Second Floor


This is a site-specific promenade performance with the audience moving through the space, sometimes standing, sometimes sitting. If you require assistance, please let us know as much in advance as possible and we will do our best to accommodate you.

Experience with us the women who inhabit some of Beckett’s best-known short works, women whose connection between body and soul has ruptured. Director Sarah Jane Scaife pulls Beckett’s characters from the page and drops them into the urban landscape, using the aesthetic tools of the body, sound, site, movement, architecture, and projection to put flesh on the scars that Beckett reveals within our society.


Beckett in the City is a body of work that celebrates and reveals Beckett’s writings as existing all around us. This beautiful production will deeply move audiences.

“Under Sarah Jane Scaife’s careful direction, fine performances allow for elucidating echoes.” —Peter Crawley, The Irish Times

“Beckett re-imagined through a prism of female experience…genuinely ephemeral.” Sunday Business Post

“The Women Speak achingly articulates the ramshackle body of the female in nationalist Ireland.”Broadway World

“The Women Speak movingly reminds us of the humanising power of Beckett’s work.”Exeunt Magazine

Running time: 70 minutes

This is a site-specific piece of theatre. Audiences meet at Irish Arts Center, 553 West 51st Street, and take a short walk to the final venue.

TALKBACKS
Sarah Jane Scaife and Kathryn Lennon on Site-Specific Theatre

Friday, September 22 & 29 after 8pm performance
September 22: Moderated by Zach Morris, co-artistic director or Third Rail Projects
September 29: Moderated by Anne Hamburger, founder and executive producer of En Garde Arts

Sarah Jane Scaife on Beckett’s Historic Social Context
Saturday, September 23 after 2pm performance