Not I & Pas Moi

The acclaimed production which premiered at Happy Days Paris Beckett Festival (2016), features a first ever back to back performance of Beckett's Not I and its French-language version, Pas Moi by the award winning French-based, Irish actress Clare Simpson. In 2010 in a Corn Exchange production Clara played Winnie in Happy Days directed by Annie Ryan.

Not I is a haunting piece, a sonic masterpiece, in which an unnamed women, visible only by her mouth, reflects on her life in a torrent of words. To hear Beckett's two languages side by side in one sitting with, as Clara puts it, 'no transition, one language weaving into the other, to become a single piece' is as intense and mind blowing a thirty minutes as you will experience in a theatre.

Previous Festival Not I productions included Lisa Dwan at Portora Royal School (Beckett's school) in 2012 and the Marble Arch Caves as part of the INFERNO triptych in 2013