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‘The whole place stinks of corpses’ John Calder & Beckett’s Endgame
January 29 2014: John Calder’s Godot Company is back on tour, with Happy Days. This article was written for the Irish Independent on the occasion of their tour of Endgame, in September 2009. See also this article for Le Monde Diplomatique. * “The whole place stinks of corpses,” says Hamm. “The whole universe,” says Clov…. read more +
For Prospect Magazine: Beckett begins again
Is the work of Ireland’s greatest dramatist being ossified by reverence? Colin Murphy watches three productions on tour and asks Beckett’s first British publisher what the future holds, in the current issue of Prospect. See also ‘Back on the road in rural Ireland’ in the March issue of Le Monde Diplo: an interview with Henry… read more +
‘Endgame’ in the Wicklow Mountains
Henry Woolf is the 79-year-old playing Clov in the Godot Company’s ‘Endgame’. I spoke to him about his life in theatre, which started with a tour in 1957 with Anew McMaster’s legendary travelling theatre company. henry-woolf Interview broadcast as a podcast on Le Monde Diplo to accompany the print article.