Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

‘The Feeling in the Play’: An Interview with Ian Rickson

‘The Feeling in the Play’: An Interview with Ian Rickson Jonathan Heron: I would like to focus on Krapp's Last Tape (KLT) at the Royal Court Theatre (2006) and would like you to outline the circumstances that led to you directing Harold Pinter in the role of Krapp. Ian Rickson: I was curating the 50th anniversary celebrations at the Royal Court, and was thinking about the theatrical lineage from Joyce to Beckett, Beckett to Pinter, and then Pinter onwards, as influences and shapers of 20th century drama and art. I got to know Harold and had heard him talk about his friendship with Samuel Beckett. It felt fitting to fuse these two artists together in celebrating the Royal Court's anniversary by asking Harold to play Krapp's Last Tape ­ these two artists who have shaped so much. I rang him and said, `I want you to think about this', and he said, `I'll think about it', and within hours said `meet me for lunch'. I met him for lunch and he said he'd love to do it. That was approximately nine months before we actually did it, and unfortunately Harold, who had fought off cancer already and was in recovery then got a secondary, really difficult illness, which http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Beckett Studies Edinburgh University Press

‘The Feeling in the Play’: An Interview with Ian Rickson

Journal of Beckett Studies , Volume 23 (1): 95 – Apr 1, 2014

Loading next page...
 
/lp/edinburgh-university-press/the-feeling-in-the-play-an-interview-with-ian-rickson-viG9bMgSiN

References

References for this paper are not available at this time. We will be adding them shortly, thank you for your patience.

Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Copyright
© The editors, Journal of Beckett Studies
Subject
Interviews; Literary Studies
ISSN
0309-5207
eISSN
1759-7811
DOI
10.3366/jobs.2014.0088
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

Jonathan Heron: I would like to focus on Krapp's Last Tape (KLT) at the Royal Court Theatre (2006) and would like you to outline the circumstances that led to you directing Harold Pinter in the role of Krapp. Ian Rickson: I was curating the 50th anniversary celebrations at the Royal Court, and was thinking about the theatrical lineage from Joyce to Beckett, Beckett to Pinter, and then Pinter onwards, as influences and shapers of 20th century drama and art. I got to know Harold and had heard him talk about his friendship with Samuel Beckett. It felt fitting to fuse these two artists together in celebrating the Royal Court's anniversary by asking Harold to play Krapp's Last Tape ­ these two artists who have shaped so much. I rang him and said, `I want you to think about this', and he said, `I'll think about it', and within hours said `meet me for lunch'. I met him for lunch and he said he'd love to do it. That was approximately nine months before we actually did it, and unfortunately Harold, who had fought off cancer already and was in recovery then got a secondary, really difficult illness, which

Journal

Journal of Beckett StudiesEdinburgh University Press

Published: Apr 1, 2014

There are no references for this article.