Theatre review: How It Is (Part 1) at the Everyman Palace Theatre, Cork

Ahead of Gare St Lazare Ireland’s world premiere performance of Samuel Beckett’s How It Is in Cork, director Judy Hegarty Lovett addresses the audience, stressing that the Irish writer's original text was a novel, not a play, writes Marjorie Brennan.

Whatever level of accessibility is present in Beckett’s best-known work for stage is not to be expected here. But absence of plot and traditional-style dialogue has its advantages, inviting audiences to project their own meaning on to this challenging work.