Samuel Beckett: Silence to Silence
- 1984 ----- color ----- 80 min ----- vhs
- Describes Samuel Beckett's life and how his experiences influenced his writing. Begins with his childhood and ends with his achievement as the "third of three great masters who made the literary world look to Ireland for its models." Beckett's bleak landscape of life, where language and humour are pitted against silence and grief, is given expression by selections from his poetry, prose and plays performed by David Warrilow, Billie Whitelaw, Jack Mac Gowran and Patrick Magee. Produced with the assistance of Samuel Beckett.
- Topics: (Biography, Drama, Literature: English)
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