Features definitive versions of Beckett’s recent works written or adapted for television. There are three additional works in The Beckett Project series produced by Global Village: What Where (1988/10 minutes), a video version of Beckett’s last play overseen by the playwright himself, Godot in San Quentin (1988/27 minutes), a fascinating version of Waiting For Godot, produced by inmates of this maximum-security prison, and Waiting for Beckett (1994/86 minutes), a unique television documentary on the life and work of the Nobel Prize-winning writer Samuel Beckett, which includes a rare scene with the playwright critiquing a video performance of one of his plays.
Main Credits
produced and directed by John Reilly; hosted by Chris O'Neill; scripted by Melissa Shaw-Smith; editor, Pedro Carvajal; written by Robert SeidmanAdditional Credits
associate producer, Melissa Shaw-Smith; assistant editor, Anais Rivera; "Not I," a Global Village production with Margo Lee Sherman, theater direction, Larry Sacharow; "What Where," a Global Village production with Tom Luce, Morgan Upton, Richard Wagner, Dave Peichert, and theater direction by Stan Gontarski; "Quad I & II," a Global Village production, choreography by Suzanne Lek Dance Company; narration, Cecil Hedigan; Beckett actor, Chris O'Neill; music, Bill Ochs (Irish whistle); additional music, Frans Schubert; major funding provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts, The New York Council for the Humanities, The Maryland Humanities Council, California Council for the Humanities, Aer Lingus Irish Airlines, Irish Tourist Board, and the generous support of individualsPerformers
Cecil Hedigan (narration)
Chris O'Neill (host and Beckett actor)Date
1992Running Time
38 min.Video Tape Format
Digital file
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