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Millennium Screening for Beckett
22 Jul 1999 :
The works of Samuel Beckett are to be filmed as a major millennium project. Set to be produced in a joint collaboration by Parallel films and the Gate Theatre, and with full permission from the Beckett estate, filming is due for completion by end 2000.

With completion dates as close as they are, decisions will have to be taken soon as to who will take the lead roles in such powerful productions as Beckett's Waiting for Godot, Krapps Last Tape and Endgame. Actors such as Barry McGovern and Alan Stanford have made the Beckett roles their own on the Gate stage over the past few years but there is no certainty that they will be chosen for these filmed productions.

Since it staged the first Beckett Festival in 1991 the Gate has received many accolades for its portrayal of the playwrights work at home and abroad and in September will take all 19 of the plays to the Barbican Centre in London.

Michael Colgan, Director of the Gate will work with Alan Moloney of Parallel films on the project with Moloney as Executive Producer. The production company, Parallel Films, which Moloney runs with partner Tim Palmer has been receiving accolades of their own recently also. With the award winning Amongst Women and Falling for a Dancer both receiving their second airing on RTE they have also been selected for the Amsterdam based Widescreen Festival for their most recent collaboration with RTE. The yet to be screened drama series DDU is the sequel to last years major crime thriller Making the Cut.



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