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.
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Samuel Beckett: Silence to Silence documentary (1991)
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.
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