Beckett on Film Episode Guide

Episode Guide

• Season 1 Episode 19: What Where

  Characters are sent to confess the same unnamed crime. Sean McGinley and Gary Lewis star

• Season 1 Episode 18: Catastrophe

  The play Catastrophe, in which an authoritarian director throws his weight around while his submissive subjects pander to his overbearing will : ultimately leading to catastrophe. Directed by David Mamet, with Harold Pinter, Rebecca Pidgeon and John Gielgud in his final performance

• Season 1 Episode 17: Ohio Impromptu

  Ohio Impromptu, Samuel Beckett's short tale of mourning, loss and mysterious messages from the other side. Starring Jeremy Irons

• Season 1 Episode 16: Rockaby

  Short about an old woman and her rocking chair in which she talks to herself as she looks to the outside world for comfort. Directed by Richard Eyre, with Penelope Winton

• Season 1 Episode 15: A Piece of Monologue

  Monologue recounting a fragmentary tale of birth and death, focusing on the gradual disintegration of self-awareness as the inevitable end approaches. Stephen Brennan stars

• Season 1 Episode 14: Footfalls

  Scenes from Samuel Beckett's Footfalls, following a conversation between a mother and daughter that ends with one being absorbed by the other

• Season 1 Episode 13: That Time

  Adaptation of Samuel Beckett's That Time, featuring Niall Buggy in three monologues from one man's life. Only the Listener's face, surrounded by a shock of white hair, is visible as he is bombarded with voices representing different times in his past

• Season 1 Episode 12: Not I

  Production of Samuel Beckett's symbolic work Not I, in which a mouth delivers a stream of consciousness while avoiding the word I. (Age 14-19)

• Season 1 Episode 11: Breath

  Damien Hirst directs his interpretation of Beckett's Breath, voiced by Keith Allen, and Neil Jordan's Not I, which chronicles a woman's thoughts, starring Julianne Moore

• Season 1 Episode 10: Come and Go

  John Crowley's production of Samuel Beckett's Come and Go, which follows the conversation of three women. Starring Anna Massey, Sian Phillips and Paola Dionisotti

• Season 1 Episode 9: Play

  Samuel Beckett's Play, the tale of an adulterous love triangle recounted by those involved, starring Alan Rickman, Kristin Scott Thomas and Juliet Stevenson. Directed by Anthony Minghella

• Season 1 Episode 8: Rough for Theatre II

  Second in a two-part short drama. A blind man and paralysed man meet, and consider joining forces to lead more fulfilling lives

• Season 1 Episode 7: Rough for Theatre I

  Short drama. A blind man and a paralysed man meet, and consider joining forces to lead more fulfilling lives. David Kelly and Milo O'Shea star

• Season 1 Episode 6: Krapp's Last Tape

  John Hurt stars in Krapp's Last Tape by Samuel Beckett, a play about a man who looks back on his life by listening to tape recordings : and tries to reconcile perception and reality as he awaits his impending death

• Season 1 Episode 5: Act Without Words II

  A mime which observes Beckett's concern with form by highlighting the absurdity of two men's lives. Directed by Enda Hughes and starring Pat Kinevane and Marcello Magni

• Season 1 Episode 4: Act Without Words 1

  Act Without Words One, a tale about a man who struggles to reach a flask of water in the desert, only to have his hopes dashed. Director Karel Reisz's adaptation of Beckett's comic mime, starring Sean Foley

• Season 1 Episode 3: Happy Days

  Happy Days, considered to be Samuel Beckett's most cheerful drama. Rosaleen Linehan stars as Winnie, a woman who maintains an optimistic disposition despite her taciturn husband and being buried in a pile of sand. Also starring Richard Johnson

• Season 1 Episode 2: Endgame

  Adaptation of Samuel Beckett's Endgame, which draws parallels between the closing stages of a chess game and the end of life. Michael Gambon, Jean Anderson and David Thewlis star

• Season 1 Episode 1: Waiting for Godot

  Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett's best-known work, a surreal tragi-comic drama about two tramps anticipating the eternally postponed arrival of a mysterious figure. Starring Stephen Brennan, Barry McGovern, Johnny Murphy and Alan Stanford