Meet Samuel Beckett with Richard Wilson (2015)

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6 жыл бұрын

Richard Wilson, noted for theatrical productions of Waiting for Godot and Krapps's Last Tapes, shares his love for a playwright recently described as 'probably the most influential artistic figure of our time' - Samuel Beckett.
How does this highly experimental, avant-garde playwright speak to us today? Richard Wilson travels to Enniskillen in Northern Ireland where his hero went to school, for the 2015 International Beckett Festival, and hears from fellow British stars of stage and screen Sir Ian McKellen, Juliet Stevenson and Australian actor Hugo Weaving, as well as acclaimed American director Robert Wilson. Lisa Dwan, who has made Beckett's notoriously difficult play Not I her signature piece, celebrates the playwright's love of the female voice.
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@StevePhillips 6 ай бұрын

That line by Richard Wilson, I found rather funny. "I'd never done a one person show before. It's very lonely" My first claim to fame, not that I ever wished to be famous, I never did and still don't. But, I went to watch "Waiting for Godot", in the rounds theatre. Whereby actors came into perform when the audience were all settled in to watch. Richard Wilson, one of the actors entered pulling a very thick rope with a huge knot tied at the end of it, that skipped and hit me in the head. Even though a live performance. He stopped came back to ask was I alright? I said, I was a little concussed, but would survive. He went on to do a brilliant performance. Certainly it was captivating. But, it's true, all our life we have that feeling that we are waiting expectantly for something to happen.

@ElectricCereal42 3 жыл бұрын

Beckett riding on the Old Town Road 7:52

@Jbonz7 3 жыл бұрын

Thank god someone heard it

@filipeoliveira854 3 жыл бұрын

LOL

@user-zv2cc1il7q 13 күн бұрын

Oh my God. You made me cry. I love you!

@ianleslie2290 2 жыл бұрын

This is one of the finest programs I have seen on Samuel Beckett. You nailed it Richard!

@MrUndersolo 6 жыл бұрын

And they used “Waiting for the Man” by VU at the end. Beautiful!

@Johnconno 4 жыл бұрын

No, really stupid.

@Finsami71 4 жыл бұрын

@@Johnconno No it's not. It's ok.

@zetetick395 3 жыл бұрын

Waiting for Godot really could be reinterpreted as two junkies endlessly waiting for their pickup

@darrellphelps9552 Жыл бұрын

Beautiful, spent the day searching for something good about Master Beckett, so gratified to have found this at last-

@rapauli 5 жыл бұрын

Great, important, all the way through to the end. Then I spent a good while looking at that screen, played it again, then I sent the link to my friend

@ReVoltaire84 5 жыл бұрын

It's so great ! thanks and thanks for all these videos on Beckett !

@khyatirawat602 4 жыл бұрын

Samuel Beckett or Sam

@windowman929 7 ай бұрын

Two Dublin lads walking around Paris, James Joyce & samuel Beckett, just two of the many Irish greats....

@roniklinkhamer4031 6 жыл бұрын

very amusing and interesting, thanxx

@mickdevlin 2 жыл бұрын

I love Ian Mckellan when he reverts to his natural Lancashire accent. I think he should always speak like this. Everyone Oop North loves him.

@BittyNavarro 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much, Manufacturing Intellect! I had not been able to get around to seeing the videos. -@yosoyene

@kagewilliams4475 4 жыл бұрын

The greatest Irish Conceptual Artist.

@rachelsteer198 2 жыл бұрын

Fabulous. Thank you. 🥰

@regmunday8354 6 жыл бұрын

People keep going back to Waiting For Godot because they're hoping the fucker might eventually show up. :)

@mickdevlin 2 жыл бұрын

Reg? He did.

@mickdevlin 2 жыл бұрын

Jiohn Hurt as Krapp was amazing.

@greylithwolf 2 жыл бұрын

Wow. Thank you.

@jaybone23 3 жыл бұрын

And he had a lovely head of hair.

@zetetick395 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, Beckett's up there with David Lynch in terms of 'fantastic old-man hair'

@jaybone23 3 жыл бұрын

@@zetetick395 🤣

@johnwade7430 Жыл бұрын

A great show Well done!

@johnwade7430 Жыл бұрын

I loved the aside about Beckett travelling to Paris to follow Joyce… tantalising… hmmmmm

@TheBilllD 3 жыл бұрын

OMG. The dude reading paper in barber shop. Sam !

@thomassimmons1950 5 жыл бұрын

Nobody beats Sam..."It's about waiting."

@khyatirawat602 4 жыл бұрын

@Naburim Naburim Samuel Beckett

@robkunkel8833 4 жыл бұрын

At 8:21, the narrator met up with Beckett biographer, Professor James Knowlson, for further discussion by a tree. Do you think he thought of Godot while he was waiting?

@jellyroll6008 6 жыл бұрын

"He never tried to lecture anyone on what it all meant" it's so frustrating trying to make stuff now and having to explain fucking EVERYTHING to those who have the means to get it out in the world.

@barryschwarz 5 жыл бұрын

I do like the company of actors.

@mickdevlin 4 жыл бұрын

I don't......

@davidadams6863 4 жыл бұрын

♡

@susanburgess820 4 жыл бұрын

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

@alanlawrence2954 2 жыл бұрын

Pure dramatic art... But wait... For What...? Time to unfold.

@mcduffxyz Жыл бұрын

My 6 year old grandaughter put some twigs and leaves and gras togetther today called Campfire and Camp beds for Fairies and Squirrels which looked like the set for Waiting For Godot. Sam knew how Kids saw the World.

@mickdevlin 2 жыл бұрын

And here's the gorgeous Lisa Dwan.....I have her mouth on my wall. Hahaha!

@Gesundheit888 3 жыл бұрын

In 2020 we are waiting for Godot (the end of Covid).

@zetetick395 3 жыл бұрын

Well now! I coulda swore that Mr Hugo Weaving was in fact a bearded Martin Amis! 😅 4:04

@chancethadood Жыл бұрын

i was like “how did they use a cover of old town road if this came out in 2015?” then i learned the error of my ways. it’s nine inch nails

@greytoeimp 6 жыл бұрын

Lots of Beck music in Beckett video... coincidence? I think not!

@AleksandarBloom 6 жыл бұрын

some NIN too.

@webba2001 6 жыл бұрын

i don'i believe it

@angelonearth8088 3 жыл бұрын

Two wizards

@vardellsfolly5200 3 жыл бұрын

It just occurred to me. Two sorcerers, waiting. Gaius and Gandalf.

@beefwisdom 5 жыл бұрын

why do americans always pronounce it "goDOH" while brits say "GODoh", which is correct?

@JackJames2612 5 жыл бұрын

Neither, it's "GODOH" or maybe it's "godoh"

@michaelmcclare5852 6 жыл бұрын

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@vinm300 4 ай бұрын

Oh dear - they've turned Waiting for Godot into a pantomime The TV version is far superior (faultless) and one doesn't have to endure the inane laughter

@MrPhilosopherking 5 жыл бұрын

I don’t believe it

@eyesofpicasso 4 жыл бұрын

ha ha ha ... agent smith...

@boblazar9720 3 жыл бұрын

Might not be a bad idea to trim that nose hair if you're hosting a show dude.

@Reymundodonsayo 4 жыл бұрын

He was emulating Joyce that’s all!

@kurisensei 4 жыл бұрын

Joyce is chock full of quotations, allusions and other references. Beckett is utterly bare and stripped down.

@MattHew-pi9ht 3 жыл бұрын

Honestly the only Beckett that really feels like he was straight up emulating Joyce is Dream of Fair to Middling Women and it's telling that full text was never published during his lifetime. There's an undeniable influence that Joyce had on Beckett, but it was one that Beckett kept shedding more and more of with every new book or play. How It Is or the Second Trilogy do not feel Joycean in the slightest. Neither does Godot for that matter.