THE PROGRAMME WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY A PANEL DISCUSSION ON THE CHALLENGES FACING THOSE WHO HAVE TRANSLATED BECKETT’S WORK FOR STAGE AND SCREEN, CHAIRED BY HUGH LINEHAN; THE PANEL WILL INCLUDE ANTHONY MINGHELLA AND ALAN GILSENAN.Eh Joe
Joe is haunted by the voice of his dead wife as he sits alone in his bedsit. The cinematography explores the bodyscape of the human form in a fashion that emphasises the tension of the text. With Tom Hickey and Siobhan McKenna.
ALAN GILSENAN • 1986 • 38 MINS.
Catastrophe
A theatre director and his assistant arrange a protagonist, who stands on a black block submitting to their direction. Director David Mamet’s film of the play stars John Gielgud (in his last film role), Rebecca Pidgeon and Harold Pinter.
DAVID MAMET • 2001 • 7 MINS.
Play
From each of three urns, a head protrudes – a man and two women. Each character bitterly narrates the story of their role in a love triangle. (With Alan Rickman, Juliet Stephenson, Kristin Scott Thomas)
ANTHONY MINGHELLA • 2001 • 16 MINS.
Come and Go
Three women are on a bench facing the audience, reminiscing. Each woman leaves the stage briefly, and during each absence an appalling secret is whispered about the third – which the audience doesn’t hear. Paolo Dionisotti, Anna Massey and Sian Phillips play the three women.
JOHN CROWLEY • 2001 • 8 MINS.