Proof that misery loves company

Three of Samuel Beckett’s short plays to run at Everyman, says Colette Sheridan

THREE short plays by Samuel Beckett, produced by the London-based Godot Company, will be performed at Cork’s Everyman Theatre as part of a national tour.

Peter Pacey, who stars in two of the plays, says the company, founded by Beckett’s friend and publisher, John Calder, has been producing Beckett for 10 years now and praises the reception the playwright’s works get in his native country. “Coming to Ireland is the jolliest part of the calendar for me,” he says.