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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.
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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