First Love

WRITTEN BY SAMUEL BECKETT,  BY GARE SAINT LAZARE PLAYERS FROM IRELAND

Leading interpreters of Samuel Beckett's work, Gare Saint Lazare Players will visit Australia for the first time for Brisbane Festival 2010.

Performed by Conor Lovett and directed by Judy Hegarty Lovett, First Love, is one of Samuel Beckett’s early short stories and contains much of his distinctive black humour and a plot that is regarded as a masterpiece of Beckettian perversity.

A young man, expelled from the family home, takes refuge on a bench by a canal. There he meets a woman who takes him home, with comically disastrous consequences.

Gare Saint Lazare Players have toured internationally with their critically acclaimed presentations of Beckett’s prose works. Conor Lovett’s exceptional performance animates the bone-dry humour of a character besieged with a clutter of emotions.

Gare Saint Lazare Players’ precise and elegant work has made Beckett accessible to a whole a new audience and earned the company an enviable reputation around the world.

"Supremely funny" New York Times

"One could hardly come up with a better human instrument to intone the sonorous waves of Beckett's blasphemous comic prose than Conor Lovett" Los Angeles Times

“A triumph of literary excavation… Judy Hegarty Lovett and her performer have traced every thought within a tangle of prose, ideas and corrosive wit.” The Irish Times

The visit to Brisbane is supported by Culture Ireland, an Irish state initiative for promoting Irish culture worldwide.

Duration 1hr 15mins No Interval

Warning: Offensive language, this performance is recommended for ages 15+.

A lockout is in place for this performance. No late entries will be admitted