Eh Joe written by Samuel Beckett for television, was first broadcast on Beckett’s 60th birthday on April 13th, 1966. In Alan Gilsenan’s version, created 20 years later, Joe (Tom Hickey) is haunted by the voice of his dead wife (Siobhán McKenna in her final role) as he sits alone in his bedsit.

Here the cinematography explores the landscape of the human body creating tension in tandem with the intimate, auditory nature of the original text.

Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn

Screening as part of the Alan Gilsenan Retrospective