Why Stage Beckett's Novels When He Meant Them To Be Read (And Wrote Plenty Of Plays Already)? Here's Why

Judy Hegarty Lovett, director of Beckett specialists the Gare St. Lazare Players Ireland: "The challenge is both daunting and promising. When we first staged Beckett's novel Molloy in 1996, there were fewer questions about why we wanted to take it from page to stage. We knew Beckett himself had staged elements of his prose works in a one-man show performed by Jack McGowan. If the author himself had attempted to do it, surely it was possible. In the intervening years, I've come to see the staging of his prose as a convergence of form and content similar to that of the written works, where the very means of communication is in doubt."

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