Friends, you're in for a treat. If you're an actor, or writer, or poet, or director, or any kind of artist, Bill Irwin's solo show
On Beckett should be required viewing. And if you're not an artist, but you love art and listening to artists talk about their work (like me), you're going to love it too. Bill Irwin is a veteran actor of
screen and
stage (he won the 2005 Tony for best actor in a play for
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), as well as a clown, as well as a decades-long student of playwright/author
Samuel Beckett. So seeing him in anything is a treat, but seeing him in this very personal piece in which he talks about his love for (and sometimes frustration with) the work of Beckett is a rare delight. Whether or not you're familiar with Beckett (I'd only seen his most famous play, once),
On Beckett is a riveting 90 minutes spent with a talented and passionate artist.
See it at the Guthrie now through March 24.
