Happy Days Enniskillen International Annual Beckett Festival

Happy Days Enniskillen International Annual Beckett Festival
Thurs 22 - Mon 26 August 2013

Here are just a few of the 2013 Festival highlights.
Full programme details including times, prices and venues for our highlights, will be announced in April-June.
“Enniskillen seems to have embraced the festival with wide open arms. Barbershops proposed ‘Beckett haircuts’, a local coffee shop offered ‘Endgame’ (Hamm and Clov) and ‘Krapp’ (banana and Nutella) sandwiches, all in-jokes for those familiar with the character names and actions in these plays. ….the performances and events I attended all over town were consistently packed.”
New York Times, August 2012


International Theatre Events:
13 of Beckett's short plays
Durations range from 3 to 30 minutes

Word Without Acts -
the tellers and the tales
Readings of Beckett's short stories by highly acclaimed actors including Juliet Stevenson, Neil Pearson, Diana Quick and more.

Fooling around Beckett
An exciting programme of mime, cirque, clowns, street arts, vaudeville and comedy by artists from France and the UK.

Writers & Artists - The Talks
Tariq Ali, Tom Paulin, Margaret Drabble, Antony Cronin, John Montague, Eoin O'Brien
and many more.

Art Installations
From film-maker Neil Jordan, Italian wunderkind director Romeo Castelluci and American ‘King of the Avant Garde’ (Vanity Fair) director Robert Wilson.

*SPECIAL EVENT*
A hugely exciting site specific show, inspired by Dante’s The Divine Comedy, will take place in The Marble Arch Caves (Inferno), the islands on Lower Lough Erne (Ante Purgatorio) - Forthill Park (Mount Purgatory) and high in the air (Paradiso)!

Message from the Festival Director, Sean Doran:
‘As last year showed for those who took advantage of the festival, the work of Samuel Beckett wasn't as frightening as it first seemed, it was actually quite a lot of fun! This year the festival aims to be even more popular with including more family-style events in a new mime, cirque, clown and comedy programme.
Book early and book often! Enniskillen will indeed become “Beckett Town” and we expect all our events to be busy’.

Full programme launch mid-June.
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Happy Days Enniskillen International Annual Beckett Festival

Ardhowen Theatre, Enniskillen, 22 Aug - 26 Aug
Contact details

Dublin Road
Enniskillen
Fermanagh
BT74 6BR
Tel: (028) 6632 5440
Alt: (028) 6632 3233
Fax: (028) 6632 7102
Email: ardhowen.theatre@fermanagh.gov.uk
Web: www.ardhowentheatre.com