Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film

Movie · EN · 2003

Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film

Documentary52 min

Follows the "Beckett on Film" project, which produced film adaptations of writer Samuel Beckett's nineteen stage plays. The documentary features excerpts from the "Beckett on Film" versions of "Not I", "Krapp's Last Tape", "Endgame", "What Where", and "Waiting for Godot".

Cast

Alan Moloney

Alan Moloney

Self - Producer

Joe Mulholland

Joe Mulholland

Self - Executive Producer (RTE)

Stephen Brennan

Stephen Brennan

Self - Lucky ("Waiting for Godot")

John Crowley

John Crowley

Self - Director ("Come and Go")

Paola Dionisotti

Paola Dionisotti

Self - From "Come and Go"(archive footage)

Atom Egoyan

Atom Egoyan

Self - Director ("Krapp's Last Tape")

Sean Foley

Sean Foley

Self - Man ("Act Without Words I")

Michael Gambon

Michael Gambon

Self - Hamm (archive footage)

John Gielgud

John Gielgud

Self - The Protagonist ("Catastrophe")

Enda Hughes

Self - Director ("Act Without Words II")

John Hurt

John Hurt

Self / Self - Krapp ("Krapp's Last Tape")

Jeremy Irons

Jeremy Irons

Self - Reader / Self - Listener ("Ohio Impromptu")

Neil Jordan

Neil Jordan

Self - Director ("Not I")

Garrett Keogh

Self - Narrator (voice)

Pat Kinevane

Pat Kinevane

Self (archive footage)

Pearse Lehane

Self - Interviewer