¡UPTHEREPUBLIC! — Readings by Barry McGovern in the GPO
Event Information
Description
The Beckett Summer School 2016 is pleased to partner with the GPO in the centenary year of the Rising, and to offer an opportunity to experience one of Dublin's most historic locations. Barry McGovern, a world-renowned interpreter of Samuel Beckett's work, will present texts that reflect Beckett's troubled relationship to Irish nationalism, including one featuring the GPO itself.
All tickets for this event are standing only. It will be followed by a wine reception.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Barry McGovern is recognized by many as one of the leading interpreters of the work of Samuel Beckett. He has played Vladimir, Estragon and Lucky in Waiting for Godot, Clov in Endgame, Willie in Happy Days and Krapp in Krapp’s Last Tape. On radio he has played Henry in Embers, Fox in Rough for Radio II and directed All that Fall. He has also played Words in Words and Music. He played Vladimir in the Beckett on Film Godot.
In 2012 he played Vladimir to Alan Mandell’s Estragon in Los Angeles and earlier this year played Clov to his Hamm. His two one-man Beckett shows I’ll Go On and Watt, produced by the Gate Theatre, have toured worldwide. He frequently lectures on, and gives readings of, Beckett’s work. His recordings of the complete Three Novels (Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable) are available from RTÉ. Last year he taught Joyce and Beckett at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. He will be performing a stage adaptation of Beckett's First Love at the Dublin Theatre Festival in October.
Organiser Samuel Beckett Summer School
Organiser of ¡UPTHEREPUBLIC! — Readings by Barry McGovern in the GPO
The Samuel Beckett Summer School provides a unique experience for students, scholars and lovers of Beckett’s works. Each year we invite the world’s foremost Beckett scholars to present new lectures and seminars on all aspects of Beckett’s works. The School appeals to a wide range of Beckett enthusiasts by providing the opportunity to experience, savour and study Beckett’s works in the university where he began his intellectual life.
The Summer School is different from an academic conference in that it is not purely a gathering by specialists for other specialists. Instead, we aim to engage and explore Beckett’s works from a variety of different perspectives in order to examine and re-examine Beckett’s evolving legacy and relevance. The aim of the Summer School is to look at Beckett in an open and pluralist fashion and to consider all of the numerous contexts of his work that are of interest both to the scholar and to the general reader.
We are proud to present a varied public programme of events during the Samuel Beckett Summer School. Featuring leading artists and academics, these talks and performances aim to give audiences a rare insight into the life and works of Samuel Beckett.
The Beckett Summer School is a core activity of the Trinity Centre for Beckett Studies, based at the Trinity Long Room Hub.
