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Being Beckett


Published Tuesday, March 10, 2009, 4:09 PM
Updated Thursday, July 23, 2009, 6:09 PM

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Actor Barry McGovern is regarded as Ireland's finest interpreter of Samuel Beckett's works. This month he'll perform his hit one-man show I'll Go On at New York's Lincoln Center Festival as part of Gate/Beckett, a program of three Beckett works also featuring Liam Neeson and Ralph Fiennes. CAHIR O'DOHERTY talks to McGovern about the show and the famous company he's keeping.

HOLD your breath. Barry McGovern, Ralph Fiennes and Liam Neeson will bring three of Samuel Beckett's greatest works, none of which were originally written for the stage, to New York this month. I'll Go On comprises three of Beckett's novels, which McGovern has performed to critical acclaim from in venues from Dublin to Sydney.

In First Love Fiennes (last seen as Susan Sarandon's Donegal born cross-dressing butler in HBO's Bernard and Doris) will star as a homeless man who befriends a mysterious woman, in a drama based on a 1946 Beckett novella. And in Eh Joe Neeson stars as a man confronted by a disembodied voice in an empty room.

Each of the plays is being staged separately and then together on same-day marathons in the city. So if a five-hour Beckett festival seems a bit intimidating, remember that the last time Fiennes and Neeson collaborated was on Steven Spielberg's epic drama Schindler's List - and that McGovern is widely considered one of the finest interpreters of Beckett's works.

"The first time I performed this play was in September, 1985 at the Dublin Theatre Festival," says McGovern during an interview with the Irish Voice. "I thought it would just last for six nights and that would be it. But it had a life of its own and it's taken me all around the world."

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