Following The Beckett Trilogy( 2011) and The End (2012) Gare St Lazare return once more with one of Samuel Beckett's early novellas, First Love. It possesses much of his distinctive black humour and a plot that is regarded as a masterpiece of Beckettian perversity. Read more …
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 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.
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh from Thursday May 23, 2013, until Saturday May 25, 2013. More info: www.traverse.co.uk