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...La Sucrière, Lyon, until 17 March IC Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn A rare collection of vintage prints from the personal archive from one of the earliest “supermodels”, Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn, muse to giants...
...Lisa Dwan’s performances of Footfalls during the past decade also diverged from convention by featuring recordings of her own voice in the role of the unseen protagonist’s mother....
...In Lisa Dwan’s brilliant performance, that daily battle to keep on keeping on becomes touchingly noble....
...Donald Trump was in the White House; the #MeToo movement was heating up; the Irish actor Lisa Dwan was delivering No’s Knife, her stunning solo adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s prose, at Dublin’s Abbey Theatre...
...★★★★☆ Beckett triple bill Jermyn Street Theatre, London While The Welkin works across a huge canvas, Trevor Nunn’s Beckett triple bill at the tiny Jermyn Street Theatre is a triptych of Samuel Beckett...
...Margaret Beckett, the veteran Labour MP, noted that Mrs May contradicted herself when she said that if her Brexit deal was rejected Britain might be faced with a general election or a second referendum....
...Lisa Aoyama, 22, is among them. The Tokyo resident is about to move to London to study for a masters degree....
...Beckett famously wrote “No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” Lisa Dwan fails brilliantly. To October 15, oldvictheatre.com...
...Such tittle-tattle gleams from Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict, a spry documentary about the late art collector directed by Lisa Immordino Vreeland....
...We always lose a few,” says actress Lisa Dwan, cheerfully. “In New York we had a woman on her hands and knees crawling out of the theatre. And this posh man screaming, ‘Help me! Help!’”...
...SH shakespearesglobe.com, 020 7401 9919, June 1-27 Not I / Footfalls / Rockaby, Barbican, London Lisa Dwan reprises her solo performances of Beckett’s challenging late plays to launch the Barbican’s Beckett...
...The perfect combination of beauty and terror. ——————————————- Lisa Dwan is touring with the Royal Court Theatre in ‘Not I’, in the role of the disembodied mouth royalcourttheatre.com...
...Margaret could find her way into a Beckett play – as could Mommo in Tom Murphy’s great Bailegangaire....
...On its first visit to the Royal Court last year, Lisa Dwan’s 40th-anniversary revival of Not I was publicised in part as a kind of attempt on the Samuel Beckett land speed record....
...Deep in the rocks, Lisa Dwan performs Not I – and on we go, passing people spouting Dante’s Inferno, until we come to Ruby Philogene, who sings “Amazing Grace”....
...Forty years on, Lisa Dwan, tutored by Whitelaw, is faster still. It is a verbal hailstorm charged with pent-up agony. According to Whitelaw, Not I is an expression of a woman’s “inner scream”....
...Irish actress Lisa Dwan has not vandalised Not I. Performing this monologue, a torrent of trauma, fear and fury, is, in Billie Whitelaw’s words, “like falling backwards into Hell”....
...DAME COMMANDER, DBE Margaret Beckett, MP. Angela Watkinson, MP....
...“Mona Lisa”....
...In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, a company staged an eerily relevant production of Beckett’s Waiting for Godot in New Orleans....
...But the nihilistic gestures of Dada - defacing the Mona Lisa or exhibiting a urinal as an artwork - were intended as witty provocations....
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