Commitment to Beckett: Six-hour stream for Cork production of How It Is 

Gare St Lazare Players filmed the final part of their trilogy at the Everyman, as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival 

How It Is: Actor Stephen Dillane, director Judy Hegarty Lovett, actor Conor Lovett and sound designer Mel Mercier at the Everyman Theatre in Cork. Picture: Darragh Kane

When Judy Hegarty Lovett and Conor Lovett set out to stage the entire Beckett novel How It Is in 2015, little could they have envisaged that six years later they would be filming it in an empty theatre for a virtual audience. 

The Cork couple, who comprise Gare St Lazare Players, were already renowned for their Beckett adaptations but the uncompromising and inventive stagings of How It Is, parts I and II, which were premiered at the Everyman Theatre in Cork in 2018 and 2019, brought the great writer’s work to a sublime new level.