Samuel Beckett: Silence to Silence

Apr 15, 1987

1h 18m

★ 0.0

Overview

The elusive author of Waiting for Godot cooperated in the production of this portrait, which traces Beckett’s artistic life through his prose, plays, and poetry. Billie Whitelaw, Jack McGowran, and Patrick Magee—Beckett’s great dramatic interpreters—appear in selected extracts from the plays; Beckett specialist David Warrilow narrates a variety of texts.

Genres

Documentary

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Samuel Beckett

Billie Whitelaw

text reader

David Warrilow

narrator

Tony Doyle

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Samuel Beckett: Silence to Silence

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