Living Room Theatre: The End is In The Beginning, Beckett

Living Room Theatre: The End is In The Beginning, Beckett

Date/Time
Friday 9 May 2025
7:30 pm - 10:00 pm

Ashburton Arts Centre

Categories
Theatre


Book here now: £15 full price • £10 or £7 if you prefer – please pay what you can*
We always have three prices – pay less and come to more things 🙂

Starring Philip Robinson and Sarah White.

Philip has performed several times at Ashburton Arts Centre (Krapp’s Last Tape and The Washing Machine of Destiny) and is always brilliantly funny, poignant and entertaining. Here’s what he has to say about this show:

“You’re coming to…a brush with Beckett, his characters and their words.

“In this intimate 80 minute 2-hander performance, our approach to both the comic and the tragic sides of Beckett’s work will give audiences a compelling new way to experience his language.

“Whether you’re exploring this Nobel Prize winner’s writing for the first time, or building on a body of Beckett knowledge, this theatrical showcase is an encounter not to be missed.

“Expect a bicycle, a giant mouth, old boots, audience up on stage, a bevvy of bananas, a mystery phone call, frantic clowning, beguiling stillness, all encased in hilarious, poignant, confusing and compelling drama, ie the usual stuff you might get with yours truly!

“Welcome to this remix of 13 of Samuel Beckett’s plays, prose and poems.”

Here’s Philip Robinson of Living Room Theatre who’ll be on stage, talking about the production.

Sarah & Philip embody the endeavours of many of Beckett’s absurd and tragic characters, in their struggle to exist and to remember. Most of all, in their struggle out of silence, towards speaking. Structured as a fragmentary progression, its an entertaining celebration of the act of trying again, failing again, failing better.
Performed by Philip Robinson & Sarah White
Words by Samuel Beckett
Directed by Nikki Sved
Creative Direction by Philip, with Sarah & Nikki
Costume Design by Lindy Yellowlees
Music/Sound by Philip

 

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