Dreflix: Samuel Beckett: Silence to Silence

Samuel Beckett: Silence to Silence

The elusive author of Waiting for Godot cooperated in the production of this portrait, which traces Beckett’s artistic life through his prose, plays, and poetry. Billie Whitelaw, Jack McGowran, and Patrick Magee—Beckett’s great dramatic interpreters—appear in selected extracts from the plays; Beckett specialist David Warrilow narrates a variety of texts.

1987

1h 18min

Top Billed Cast

Billie Whitelaw
David Warrilow
text reader
Tony Doyle
narrator

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