Samuel Beckett Evening, Teatr Polski Warsaw

On 24 November, the Embassy of Ireland and Teatr Polski in Warsaw organised an evening dedicated to the work of Irish Nobel laureate, the playwright Samuel Beckett.

The well-attended event focused on a published dialogue, “You’re on Earth – there’s no cure for that”, between the writer and director Antoni Libera, who has translated all of Beckett’s work into Polish, and Fr. Janusz Pyda, a Dominican brother and a lecturer in the Dominican College of Philosophy and Theology in Kraków.

There was a performance of two monologues from Beckett’s “Endgame” performed by the famous actor Jarosław Gajewski and the actor and director Andrzej Seweryn. The Ambassador read in English from Beckett’s “Ohio Impromptu”.

Teatr Polski has a long record of performing Irish plays from its opening year in 1913 when it staged Synge’s “The Playboy of the Western World”. Earlier this year it staged a production of Jonathan Swift’s “Gulliver’s Travels”.

“The Embassy is delighted to work with Teatr Polski to continue its tradition of bringing Irish theatre to the Warsaw stage” said the Ambassador.