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Not I

Forbhreathnú

  • Drámadóir

    Samuel Beckett 

  • Suíomh

    Stage in darkness but for MOUTH, upstage audience right, about 8 feet above stage level.
    AUDITOR, downstage audience left, tall standing figure, sex undeterminable, enveloped from head to foot in loose black djellaba

  • Achoimre

    An actress is seated on stage with just her mouth spot-lit. The mouth delivers a long stream of consciousness. Evasion is the principle theme, as is highlighted by Beckett's note to the text in which the mouth's chief endeavour throughout the play is a 'vehement refusal to relinquish the third person'. The mouth undergoes a desperate struggle to avoid saying 'I', marked by four moments of crisis in which her monologue becomes a question and answer with an inner voice not heard by the audience.

  • Cinéal Dráma

    Drámaí Ginearálta

    Líon na Míreanna

    Aon-ghníomh

    • Cast size

  • Male

    1

  • Female

    1

  • Total

    2

  • Eolas Faoin bhFoireann

    The writer has specified that the sex of the auditor character be undeterminable.

Céad Léiriú

  • Dáta an Chéad Léirithe

    September 1972

  • Nótaí faoin Léiriú

    First produced by the Forum Theater, the Lincoln Center, New York.

  • Nótaí faoin Ionad

    First performed at the Forum Theater, the Lincoln Center, New York.

Foireann An Chéad Léirithe  
Mouth Jessica Tandy

Scripteanna Foilsithe

  • Teideal

    Samuel Beckett: The Complete Dramatic Works

  • Bliain

    1986

  • Foilsithe ag

    Faber and Faber

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    74-77 Great Russell Street
    London WC1B 3DA
    England

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    + 44 (0)20 7465 0045

  • Ríomhphost

    contact@faber.co.uk

  • Suíomh Idirlín

    www.faber.co.uk

  • ISBN

    0571144861

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Eolas Faoi Chearta

  • Críoch

    All Territories

  • Cinéal Cearta

    All Rights

  • Teagmháil

    The Estate of Samuel Beckett

  • Seoladh

    c/o Curtis Brown Haymarket House, 28/29 Haymarket,
    London SW1Y 4SP
    England

  • Guthán

    + 44 (0) 20 7396 6600

  • Ríomhphost

    cb@curtisbrown.co.uk

  • Suíomh Idirlín

    www.curtisbrown.co.uk

Foinse Eolais

The information for this entry was taken from 'Samuel Beckett: Collected Plays' (Faber and Faber, 1986) and from various other sources.