Page 2 - Dance First News Today

It’s probably fair to say that the vast majority of people, except for the keenest of literary scholars, don’t know much about Samuel Beckett, the man.

Film review: Gabriel Byrne and Fionn O’Shea play the writer to great effect but the pedestrian writing bogs proceedings

"IT'S the place we all go to when life drives us there," explains Samuel Beckett (Gabriel Byrne) to long-time lover, BBC radio producer and journalist Barbara Bray (Maxine Peake) of 'the wastelands', the setting for his most famous play, Waiting For Godot.

The veteran actor talks to RadioTimes.com about playing Samuel Beckett and how his view on the literary icon changed over time.

Famously nothing happens in Beckett. This awful film starring Gabriel Byrne should have taken note

Rating: Three stars

Acclaimed actor Gabriel Byrne speaks out on the dangers of AI tech in moviemaking – and gives a warning to TV writers

In the film Dance First, the young Irish actor joins Gabriel Byrne as the older Beckett and Aidan Gillen as James Joyce

Gabriel Byrne, Fionn O’Shea and Sandrine Bonnaire star in 'Dance First,' James Marsh's account of the life of Irish writer Samuel Beckett.

The actor talks about his new movie Dance First, in which he plays the Irish dramatist, the time he shared a drink with Richard Burton and why he had to leave Los Angeles