Fiona Shaw on Playing Beckett's Winnie
"The writing reared up and resisted what normally happens when I make friends with a text… Beckett has taken phrases that sound like real speech, yet they disintegrate just as the images form. The effect on the hearer is genius: instead of frustrating the audience, he keeps them on tenterhooks hoping that the launch of the next phrase will make sense of what has gone before." Irish Times 10/02/08

Posted October 2, 2008 09:29 PM