Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film

The read

It runs a compact 52m.

Synopsis

Follows the "Beckett on Film" project, which produced film adaptations of writer Samuel Beckett's nineteen stage plays. The documentary features excerpts from the "Beckett on Film" versions of "Not I", "Krapp's Last Tape", "Endgame", "What Where", and "Waiting for Godot".

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Key crew

• Pearse LehaneDirector
• Samuel BeckettWriter
• Pearse LehaneWriter

Cast

• Alan MoloneySelf - Producer
• Joe MulhollandSelf - Executive Producer (RTE)
• Stephen BrennanSelf - Lucky ("Waiting for Godot")
• John CrowleySelf - Director ("Come and Go")
• Paola DionisottiSelf - From "Come and Go"(archive footage)
• Atom EgoyanSelf - Director ("Krapp's Last Tape")
• Sean FoleySelf - Man ("Act Without Words I")
• Michael GambonSelf - Hamm (archive footage)
• John GielgudSelf - The Protagonist ("Catastrophe")
• Enda HughesSelf - Director ("Act Without Words II")
• John HurtSelf / Self - Krapp ("Krapp's Last Tape")
• Jeremy IronsSelf - Reader / Self - Listener ("Ohio Impromptu")

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