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Footfalls

Forbhreathnú

  • Drámadóir

    Samuel Beckett 

  • Nótaí

    Written in English.

  • Achoimre

    May, wrapped in tatters, paces back and forth engaging in conversation with the disembodied voice of her mother. In the second scene, May's voice becomes subsumed into her mother's. She paces ever more slowly as the play progresses, and the light dims, so that by the fourth and final scene there is no trace of her.

  • Cinéal Dráma

    Drámaí Ginearálta

    Líon na Míreanna

    Aon-ghníomh

    • Cast size

  • Female

    1

  • Total

    1

  • Eolas Faoin bhFoireann

    The recorded voice of Mother is also required.

Céad Léiriú

  • Dáta an Chéad Léirithe

    20 May 1976

  • Nótaí faoin Léiriú

    Produced as part of a season to celebrate the author's seventieth birthday.

  • Leiriú

    Produced by The Royal Court Theatre

  • Ionad an Chéad Léirithe

    The Royal Court Theatre

Foireann An Chéad Léirithe  
May Billie Whitelaw
Foireann Léirithe  
Stiúrthóir Samuel Beckett

Scripteanna Foilsithe

  • Teideal

    Samuel Beckett: The Complete Dramatic Works

  • Bliain

    1986

  • Foilsithe ag

    Faber and Faber

  • Seoladh

    74-77 Great Russell Street
    London WC1B 3DA
    England

  • Guthán

    + 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).