NOT BECKETT

This international “rolling world premiere” will present 5 new short plays in conversation with Samuel Beckett’s work, written by femme-identifying and non-binary playwrights of diversified Irish descent across the globe. Our intention is to use the inspiration of these contemporary classic plays to create a new canon, while challenging audiences to expand their idea of what Irishness looks and sounds like.

The project is led by Chicago-bred playwright and Irish citizen Jennifer Barclay (MacDowell Fellow & National New Play Network Associate Artist, currently based in DC), London-based Irish-Palestinian playwright Hannah Khalil (playwright in residence at the Globe & Creative Fellow at the Samuel Beckett Research Centre), and London-based Creative Producer Alison Holder.

With Jennifer and Hannah as Creative Directors and writers for Not Beckett, and Alison as Creative Producer, the team will work in collaboration with multiple producing theatres, and the Samuel Beckett Research Centre at Reading University, along with 3 additional writers. The new plays created will not be adaptations which infringe on copyright, but will instead be loosely inspired by a seed from the Beckett canon.

Our Funding Supporters:

The T.S Eliot Foundation

If you would like to support us please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

Please contact Alison Holder: producerarh@gmail.com