what where
Written By: Samuel Beckett
Directed By: Paula McFetridge
Production Premiere: 2nd – 5th August 2018
A site specific installation on the Colebooke Estate, Fermanagh for the Arts Over Borders Festival
WHAT WHERE (1983) is Beckett’s last play. ‘We are the last five’ says a voice though only four characters appear throughout. It’s a powerful political drama which explores what information must be divulged and when…. if ever. ’You’ll be given the works until you confess’ says the voice but what must be confessed? Do we act alone? Who or what will save us?
Presented as part of the 2018 Happy Days International Beckett Festival, audiences met at a central Enniskillen location, unaware of their final destination; they were brought by bus to a conspicuous metal shed on the Colebrooke Estate.
Beckett’s ritualistic and menacing text was brought to life as audiences deciphered the layers and contexts of one of Beckett’s most political plays given additional meaning by the environment in which it was being performed.
CREATIVE TEAM
Cast
Bam / V: Vincent Higgins
Bim: Tony Flynn
Bem: Neil Keery
Bom: Michael Condron
Designer: Liz Cullinane
Lighting design: Conleth White
Production Manager: Stephen Quinn
Stage Manager: Caitlín Hunter
Photography: Euan Geblér
Producers: Zoe Fox and Dominic Montage
PAST PERFORMANCES
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Wednesday 31st July 2018, The Sanctuary Theatre, East Side Arts Festival
Friday 2nd August 2018, The Felons, Féile an Phobail
Saturday 3rd August 2018, The Playhouse, Derry,
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