Radio Beckett, R3, Sunday, 2 Oct, 21,00-23,00hrs, already earmarked for recording.
An evening of short radio plays by Samuel Beckett, newly recorded in mostly binaural sound as part of R3's celebrations of the launch of the Third Programme in 1946. A first rate cast includes Stephen Rea, Stephen Dillane,and Ian McKellen. Director, Gaynor Macfarlane.
Was it really 1955 when I first saw Waiting for Godot at the Arts Theatre? Puzzled but stimulated and laughed a great deal. Peter Bull played Pozzo and in his memoirs, Bull's Eyes, 1985, he devotes a whole chapter to Peter Hall's production and its transfer to the Criterion Theatre. This included a hilarious description of the post-London tour at Blackpool - ye gods! - and how they cut every 'pause' in the performance in order to catch the last train to London after the Saturday evening performance - aware that a lynch-mob may be waiting at the stage door after a truly disastrous week.
My Christmas wish-list headed by the publication of the Beckett Letters as well as a long awaited release of the remastered DVD set of Napoleon, (1927), Abel Gance.
An evening of short radio plays by Samuel Beckett, newly recorded in mostly binaural sound as part of R3's celebrations of the launch of the Third Programme in 1946. A first rate cast includes Stephen Rea, Stephen Dillane,and Ian McKellen. Director, Gaynor Macfarlane.
Was it really 1955 when I first saw Waiting for Godot at the Arts Theatre? Puzzled but stimulated and laughed a great deal. Peter Bull played Pozzo and in his memoirs, Bull's Eyes, 1985, he devotes a whole chapter to Peter Hall's production and its transfer to the Criterion Theatre. This included a hilarious description of the post-London tour at Blackpool - ye gods! - and how they cut every 'pause' in the performance in order to catch the last train to London after the Saturday evening performance - aware that a lynch-mob may be waiting at the stage door after a truly disastrous week.
My Christmas wish-list headed by the publication of the Beckett Letters as well as a long awaited release of the remastered DVD set of Napoleon, (1927), Abel Gance.
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