Brisbane Festival 2010 and Brisbane Powerhouse Present First Love

Leading interpreters of Samuel Beckett's work, Gare St. Lazare Players will visit Australia for the very first time for Brisbane Festival 2010.

Performed by Conor Lovett and directed by Judy Hegarty Lovett, First Love is one of Samuel Beckett's early short stories and contains much of his distinctive dark humour and a plot that is regarded as a masterpiece of Beckettian perversity.

A young man, expelled from the family home, takes refuge on a bench by a canal. There he meets a woman who takes him home, with comically disastrous consequences.

Gare St. Lazare Players Ireland have toured internationally with their critically acclaimed presentations of Beckett's prose works. Conor Lovett's exceptional performance animates the bone-dry humour of a character besieged with a clutter of emotions.

Over the last 14 years Gare St Lazare Players Ireland have built a repertory of work that includes over 17 Beckett titles. Their precise and elegant work has made Beckett accessible to a whole new audience and earned the company an enviable reputation around the world.

The visit to Brisbane is supported by Culture Ireland, an Irish state initiative for promoting Irish culture worldwide.

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