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Artsnight: Richard Wilson on Samuel Beckett

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Artsnight: Richard Wilson

24/12/2015 GMT

Richard Wilson on Samuel Beckett

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Richard Wilson travels to Enniskillen for the 2015 International Beckett Festival.

Richard Wilson travels to Enniskillen for the International Beckett Festival, and hears from fellow British stars Sir Ian McKellen, Juliet Stevenson and Australian actor Hugo Weavi

For his edition of Artsnight, actor Richard Wilson, star not only of TV shows One Foot in the Grave and Merlin, but also noted theatrical productions of Waiting for Godot and Krapps's Last Tapes, shares his love for a playwright recently described as 'probably the most influential artistic figure of our time' - Samuel Beckett.
 
How does this highly experimental, avant-garde playwright speak to us today? Richard Wilson travels to Enniskillen in Northern Ireland where his hero went to school, for the 2015 International Beckett Festival, and hears from fellow British stars of stage and screen Sir Ian McKellen, Juliet Stevenson and Australian actor Hugo Weaving, as well as acclaimed American director Robert Wilson. Lisa Dwan, who has made Beckett's notoriously difficult play Not I her signature piece, celebrates the playwright's love of the female voice.

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