As a film starring Gabriel Byrne as Samuel Beckett is released
Gabriel Byrne as Samuel Beckett in ‘Dance First’. Photo: Sky Arts
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The trailer for Dance First, a new film starring Gabriel Byrne as writer Samuel Beckett, shows rows of men and women in evening dress, seated. The occasion is the 1969 awarding of the Nobel Prize. On stage, a man announces: “The prize for literature is hereby awarded to Samuel Beckett.”
Beckett (in the audience) mutters: “Quelle catastrophe!”