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Toronto, ON – Canadian Stage today announced a programming change to the 2015.2016 season; the internationally acclaimed production of Beckett Trilogy: Not I/Footfalls/Rockaby starring the incomparable Lisa Dwan, will run at the Berkeley Street Theatre October 13 through November 1, replacing Kiss. Kiss was previously scheduled to run at the Bluma Appel Theatre in the same time period.
“We have seized the opportunity to bring one of the most acclaimed pieces of theatre on the international stage to Canadian Stage and I am thrilled to be able to offer this once in a lifetime theatrical experience,” said Matthew Jocelyn, Artistic and General Director, Canadian Stage. “Beckett Trilogy featuring Lisa Dwan is the kind of show audiences will think about long after they leave the theatre and talk about having seen for a lifetime. We absolutely had to share this production with our audiences.”
Following a successful run of Beckett’s landmark one-woman piece Not I, Lisa Dwan returned to the Royal Court Theatre in January 2014 with a trilogy that included Footfalls and Rockaby, all directed by Walter Asmus, Beckett’s long-time friend and collaborator. Performed back to back without intermission in a total of an hour, Beckett Trilogy has become an international juggernaut garnering raves everywhere it plays. The show has been called ‘astonishing, chilling, extraordinary, mesmerizing, exhilarating, and ‘a theatrical experience of a lifetime.’’ Beckett Trilogy: Not I/Footfalls/Rockaby is a Lisa Dwan production originally co-produced with The Royal Court Theatre in association with Cusack Projects Limited.
Not I is an intense monologue, set in a pitch-black space lit by a single beam of light. A disembodied female mouth floats eight feet above the stage and delivers a stream of consciousness, spoken - as Beckett directed - at the speed of thought. Billy Whitelaw, who originated the role and was directed by Beckett himself, coached Dwan in the role. Footfalls features May, wrapped in tatters, pacing back and forth like a metronome on a strip of bare landing outside her dying mother’s room. Rockaby explores loneliness and features a prematurely old woman dressed in an evening gown, sitting on a wooden rocking chair that appears to rock of its own accord.
Tickets for Beckett Trilogy: Not I/Footfalls/Rockaby are available now at canadianstage.com. View the trailer here.
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Photto: Lisa Dwan in Rockaby. ©2014 John Haynes.
2015-07-07
Toronto: Canadian Stage brings Lisa Dwan's acclaimed "Beckett Trilogy" to Toronto