The Irish Times

Lisa Dwan: ‘I was a blond, blue-eyed, pretty actress playing one vacuous role after another’

Then came Samuel Beckett, and his plays set the Irish actor on a new artistic path

Wed Jun 16 2021 - 06:00

Maurice: A gay love story way ahead of it’s time

Review: Homophobia probably made this one of Merchant Ivory’s least successful films

Thu Jul 26 2018 - 20:30

‘Game of Thrones’ actor Peter Vaughan dies aged 93

English actor played Maester Aemon in fantasy series and Harry Grout in ‘Porridge’

Tue Dec 06 2016 - 15:07

ADiff review: Notfilm lets Samuel Beckett speak

Ross Lipman’s doc makes interesting connections and assertions

Wed Feb 17 2016 - 16:26

Billie Whitelaw, Samuel Beckett collaborator, dies aged 82

British actor passes away in London nursing home, says her son

Mon Dec 22 2014 - 14:26

Navigating through Beckett’s landscape

Beckett asks more of actors than any other writer: so how do you prepare to play his most demanding roles?

Mon Sept 15 2014 - 00:00

Culture Shock: Beckett’s Irish women finally have a distinctly Irish voice

Lisa Dwan gives astonishing performances of ‘Not I’, ‘Footfalls’ and ‘Rockaby’

Sat Sept 13 2014 - 01:00

‘Theatre is a horrible business’: the wisdom of Beckett’s chosen one

The genial German director Walter Asmus was initially scared of Samuel Beckett before gradually becoming the playwright’s personally anointed representative on Earth

Wed Jul 23 2014 - 01:00

Hay at Kells: And then there were three

Strong women grab Kells by the book

Sun Jun 30 2013 - 15:17

Lisa Dwan: ‘You can’t see. You can’t hear. Your head is in a harness. You can’t move your arms’

Performing Beckett’s ‘Not I’ involves being blindfolded, bound, and hovering on a platform in a pitch-black space. So why can’t Lisa Dwan leave it alone?

Mon Jun 24 2013 - 01:00