Video: Bill Irwin Is Taking on Beckett at the Irish Rep

"[This show] is a personal evening that I started putting together almost a decade ago, thinking about how I could make use of all of this Beckett material that stays in my head. What could I offer an audience? That has become an ongoing cycle."

The show is On Beckett, and Bill Irwin is bringing back to Irish Repertory Theatre for a limited summer engagement.

The MacArthur Fellow has spent a lifetime captivated by the Irish writer’s language. In this intimate 90-minute evening, Irwin will explore a performer’s relationship with Beckett, mining the physical and verbal skills acquired in his years as a master clown and Tony Award-winning actor. Irwin’s approach to the comic, the tragic, and every side of Beckett’s work—including Waiting for Godot, Texts for Nothing, and more—will allow audiences to experience the language in compelling new ways.