Tony-winning actor's stage piece is about his decades-long association with the late Irish playwright's books and plays
For more than 50 years, two-time Tony-winning actor and master clown Bill Irwin has had a love — and occasionally hate — affair with the words of the late Irish author and playwright Samuel Beckett. He’ll explore his decades-long intimacy with the late writer’s work this month at the Old Globe.
Irwin wrote and starred in “On Beckett,” a solo play about his long relationship with the author’s words that premiered in 2018 off Broadway at Irish Repertory Theatre. He’ll bring it to the Old Globe July 14 through 17. Bill Irwin performs a scene in “On Beckett” at Irish Repertory Theatre. He’ll bring the play to the Old Globe July 14-17.Old Globe artistic director Barry Edelstein describes Irwin as “an original: Actor, director, writer, thinker, and of course baggy-pants clown: there’s no one quite like him. He is also one of the world’s foremost interpreters of the work of Samuel Beckett, one of the titans of modern drama.
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