The University of Liverpool’s Institute of Irish Studies and The Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs, in association with Unreal Cities are pleased to present Beckett: Unbound 2024, 4 days of exploring Samuel Beckett’s wild fascination with communication and technology’s traversal of time and distance, across a programme of theatre, music, film, dance, photography, and discussion.
Pas Moi / Not I
Performances last approx 30 minutes.
Actor Clara Simpson has over 20 years of experience interpreting Samuel Beckett in Ireland and France. With Pas Moi / Not I, she takes Beckett’s notorious monologue and performs it in both French and English back-to-back, reflecting Beckett’s bilingual journey as well as her own. The experience “provokes deep questions of the journeying from mother tongue to adopted tongue, and back again” (Feargal Whelan) and "offers an electric evening of theatre" (Stanley Gontarski).
Performer: Clara Simpson
Stage Manager: Michael Cummins
Producers: Once Off Productions
Photo: Matthew Andrews
Original Production commissioned by Arts Over Borders Ireland Commencez! Paris 2016 Festival. An original concept by DoranBrowne (Seán Doran & Liam Browne).
Beckett: Unbound 2024 is funded by The Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool, the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs and Culture Ireland, and with thanks to University of Liverpool Alumni and Friends fund for their generous support of the Beckett Student Ambassador Scheme at the festival.
We are grateful to acknowledge additional funding received from The TS Eliot Foundation.
