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| EARWHACKER Samuel Beckett’s monologue Not I is rarely performed — and it’s easy to see why. The performer has to memorise a stream of fragmentary phrases and speak them with only her spotlit mouth visible, eight feet above the stage. In the current Beckett triple bill at the Royal Court, later transferring to the Duchess Theatre, Lisa Dwan makes the job even harder for herself by choosing to spout the text at breakneck speed. The whole thing lasts just nine minutes. It’s a brave and impressive choice, and justified to an extent by Beckett’s own opinion that it should be performed “at the speed of thought” and should act on the audience’s nerves rather than their intellect.  Lisa Dwan performs in Becket's late plays Photo: Alastair Muir worked : Erma Xhillari |
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