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Jack MacGowran Remembered @ Samuel Beckett Happy Days Festival

August 20th, 2015 | by Ian Patterson

Though he died over forty years ago actor Jack MacGowran is still a regular on TV and at international film …

August 19th, 2015 | by Ian Patterson

It seems odd to have Hancock’s Half Hour at the Happy Days Enniskillen International Beckett Festival, a thirteen-day smorgasbord of …

August 14th, 2015 | by Ian Patterson

The Happy Days Enniskillen International Beckett Festival’s tentacles are spreading ever further throughout Fermanagh. It’s a reach matched by its …

August 14th, 2015 | by Ian Patterson

The legend on the sign reads ‘The Captain’s Word is Law’ and so it is on the boat ferrying a …

August 10th, 2015 | by Ian Patterson

How do you stage Samuel Beckett’s radio play All That Fall in a festival setting when Beckett was, for the …

August 6th, 2015 | by Ian Patterson

Almost sixty years to the day since Waiting for Godot’s English language premier in London, which then prompted The Observer’s …

August 3rd, 2015 | by Ian Patterson

Rain pours steadily and the water lies in pools on the road, shooting up like silver ribbons as the bus …

July 27th, 2015 | by Ian Patterson

Ten spectral figures, white-faced, in white night-clothes come slowly onto the stage. They stand stock-still and silent in the dim …

August 12th, 2014 | by Ian Patterson

It seemed certain that somebody would let the cat out of the bag. A tongue would slip and the secret …

August 4th, 2014 | by Ian Patterson

For some, purgatory might well be a dawn rise to catch a 7am boat on Lough Erne, one that ferries …