Lisa Dwan’s acclaimed Beckett trilogy pushes performance to the limits,

HAVING wowed London’s West End, actress Lisa Dwan brings her acclaimed Samuel Beckett trilogy to Galway’s Taibhdhearc theatre next week, as part of the Galway Arts Festival. It will be a spiritual homecoming.

“I can’t tell you what performing in Galway means to me,” says the Westmeath native, who lives in London. “The Taibhdhearc was the first place I worked professionally in theatre, and all my dreams were realised in Galway. So it’s so important to be going back there.”

For that first Taibhdhearc gig, in the late 1990s, Dwan was a choreographer (she had started out as a dancer). Dwan has since acted onstage, in film and on TV. However, she has become synonymous with Beckett.