Irish company to bypass lockdown with video broadcast of latest Beckett instalment
A file picture of Stephen Dillane and Conor Lovett at the Everyman for How It Is. Picture Darragh Kane
The exhortation that “the show must go on” has been deployed in countless circumstances but a pandemic is the ultimate challenge for even the most seasoned of theatrical troupers. It is a challenge that Gare St Lazare Players is doing its very best to embrace. The theatre company, comprising Judy Hegarty Lovett and her husband Conor, has been showcasing the work of Samuel Beckett for over two decades.
Arguably its most ambitious project has been its staging of Beckett’s novel How It Is, the first two parts of which were performed at the Everyman Theatre in Cork in 2018 and 2019. Now audiences are being given a sneak peek of Part 3 in a digital preview via a Zoom video broadcast.
The medium may be different but it also offers a wider platform, says artistic director Hegarty Lovett, speaking from her home outside Paris.
