Beðið eftir Beckett
- Year
- 1998
- Type
- Theatre
- Role
- Actor and producer
Beðið eftir Beckett (Waiting for Beckett) was an experimental production by the company Annað svið, staged at Iðnó in 1998 and directed by Þorsteinn J. Vilhjálmsson. It was built on three short plays by Samuel Beckett – Endgame, Rockaby and Krapp’s Last Tape – and explored human solitude, memory, longing and the difficulty of human connection. Through an innovative fusion of theatre, music, sound and imagery it created a poetic, tragicomic world where the line between reality and imagination blurred. María Ellingsen performed in Rockaby, which centres on isolation, the longing for connection and the woman’s inner world.
Reviews
„The last of the one-act plays, Rockaby (1981), consists of the words and thoughts of a woman who has come to an end in more than one sense. A long day is over and it is ‘time she stopped’. Loneliness, weariness, isolation and the longing for death permeate this text, which María Ellingsen read (on tape) to powerful effect. María sits in a rocking chair, barely moving, listening to her own voice and joining in the occasional line. The fact that María is pregnant greatly heightened the impact of the text. One might say that the play’s death wish gains an added dimension from the life stirring in the woman’s womb.“