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The Beckett Trilogy

(This is a past event and is no longer running)

Molloy, Malone Dies & The uNNAMABLE

By Samuel Beckett
Directed and Designed by Judy Hegarty Lovett
Performed by Conor Lovett
Lighting design by Simon Bennison
Assistant Lighting Design by Jonathan Chan 
Produced by Maura O’Keeffe

Due to exceptional demand, we have added 20 standing tickets to each performance of The Beckett Trilogy. Book here.

 

The unparalleled Beckett champions…” (New York Times) Gare St Lazare Ireland return to The Coronet Theatre with their acclaimed Beckett Trilogy. The company’s precise and elegant work makes Beckett accessible to all, highlighting the humour and humanity in his writing.

The three novels, Molloy, Malone Dies & The Unnamable, written at the same time as Waiting for Godot, made up what the writer considered his “Important work”. Acclaimed actor Conor Lovett and award-winning director Judy Hegarty Lovett give powerful life to the essence of each of these novels in a production establishing them as the leading exponents of Beckett’s work.

In Molloy a man recounts his effort to visit his aging mother. En route he is arrested for indecently resting and encounters an old woman and her dog with dire consequences. Molloy is one of Beckett’s most poignant characters whose view of society, and the world, is as funny as it is true.

Malone Dies begins with the narrator Malone on his deathbed, telling himself stories as he bides his time. He finally hits on a character, McMann, whose story involving an asylum, a lunatic nurse and an Easter Sunday outing to the islands, resulting in a bloodbath worthy of a Tarantino movie.

The Unnamable dispenses with story entirely as the nameless narrator tries to make sense of his existence. Beckett’s beautiful investigation of inner turmoil is intensely unforgettable.. The novel ends with Beckett’s famous lines, “I can’t go on, I must go on, I’ll go on.”

The Beckett Trilogy was first performed in 2001.

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Gare St Lazare Ireland’s director Judy Hegarty Lovett and actor Conor Lovett continue to add to more than 26 Beckett titles spanning drama, radio drama, short stories and novels. They were last at The Coronet in 2022 with the sell-out How It Is (Part 2) performed by Lovett and Stephen Dillane.

The company tours internationally with its critically acclaimed presentations of Beckett’s prose works and plays. In Ireland they have toured to over 60 theatres and to over 100 more around the Globe. In all they have performed Beckett in 83 cities in 21 countries on 5 continents. They have recently opened a Beckett dedicated Artists’ Residence in France. garestlazareireland.com