Albee and Dukakis Take Part in TRTC's Beckett Festival This Spring

By: Jan. 16, 2006
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Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and Oscar-winning stage and screen actress Olympia Dukakis will help to celebrate the birthday centennial of the great Irish absurdist playwright in The Beckett Festival, which will be presented from March 16th through April 2nd at the Two River Theatre Company in Red Bank, New Jersey.

The Beckett Festival will coincide with TRTC's staging of Waiting for Godot, which will be directed by Seth Barrish and run from March 16th through April 2nd. Albee will take part in a March 18th reading of Beckett works, while Dukakis will join Barrish, moderator Carey Perloff (of the American Conservatory Theatre) and TRTC artistic director Jonathan Fox in the March 27th "Directing Beckett" panel. Fox will also direct two sets of Beckett one-acts; they include Not I, Ohio Impromptu, Quad, Footfalls, Catatrophe, Play, What Where and Rockabye.

The festival will also feature a discussion with Grove Press founder Barney Rosset on March 19th, a March 20th showing of the Beckett/Buster Keaton silent movie Film, as well as All that Fall, a live radio play, and Morton Feldman's Words and Music, performed by IoniSation New Music Ensemble, among others.

Albee, who cites Beckett as an influence in his work, is a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner for Seascape, A Delicate Balance and Three Tall Women. Other plays include Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Zoo Story, Tiny Alice, The Play About the Baby and The Goat. Dukakis received an Academy Award for her performance in the film Moonstruck, and has also been seen in Steel Magnolias, among many others. New York theatre credits include A Mother, A Daughter and a Gun, Rose, The Marriage of Bette and Boo, Curse of the Starving Class, Peer Gynt and Electra.

For more information on the Beckett Festival, visit www.trtc.org.

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