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Toronto, ON – Canadian Stage opens the 2015.2016 season with the internationally acclaimed production of Beckett Trilogy: Not I/Footfalls/Rockaby starring the incomparable Lisa Dwan. Beckett Trilogy comes to Toronto as part of an international tour that has seen the show performed on premiere stages around the world from London to New York. The show will run at the Berkeley Street Theatre October 13 through November 1.
“Beckett Trilogy featuring Lisa Dwan is one of the most acclaimed pieces of theatre on the international stage today and I am thrilled to be able to bring this once in a lifetime theatrical experience to Canadian Stage,” said Matthew Jocelyn, Artistic and General Director, Canadian Stage. “This 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.
Beckett Trilogy: Not I/Footfalls/Rockaby will be on stage at Canadian Stage’s Berkeley Street Theatre (26 Berkeley St.). Performances run Tuesday through Sunday at 8 p.m. with a 7 p.m. performance on Friday and matinees on Wednesday (21 & 28), Saturday and Sunday at 1 p.m.. The performance runs approximately 60 minutes with no intermission. Tickets running from $24 to $69 are available online, by phone at 416-368-3110 or in person at the box-office. For details visit www.canadianstage.com.
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About Beckett Trilogy: not i/footfalls/rockaby
Oct. 13 to Nov. 1
A Lisa Dwan production presented by Canadian Stage
Creative Team
Written by Samuel Beckett
Performed by Lisa Dwan
Directed by Walter Asmus
Set and costume design Alex Eales
Lighting design James Farncombe
Composer Tom Small
Sound design David McSeveney
Originally produced by the Royal Court in association with Cusack Projects Ltd.
Shows and Tickets:
2015.2016 Subscriptions and single tickets are on sale now with 4-show packages starting from $114, 6-show packages starting from $168 and full-season 14-show packages starting from $384.
Subscriptions and tickets may be purchased by phone at 416-368-3110 or in-person at the Canadian Stage Box Office: Bluma Appel Theatre (27 Front Street East) or Berkeley Street Theatre (26 Berkeley Street). Full details on the productions, casting and subscription packages are available online at www.canadianstage.com.
Photo: Lisa Dwan in Rockaby. © 2014 Sara Krulwich.
2015-09-18
Toronto: Canadian Stage brings "Beckett Trilogy" to Toronto October 13-November 1