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The outstanding lakeland scenery in Fermanagh already makes it a major destination for tourists. Linking tourism with culture can do more for local economies than promoting them separately, as by sharing our cultural heritage with visitors, we can reap the economic benefits of tourism. That is why The Enniskillen International Beckett Festival is so important – it’s providing opportunities for visitors as well as local communities both here in Fermanagh and right across Northern Ireland. It will help to raise the profile of Fermanagh as a destination and I have no doubt that the Beckett Festival has the capacity to grow to a level where it can attract overseas tourists.

ARlEnE FoSTER/ToURiSm miniSTER

As Chairman of Fermanagh District Council, it is my great pleasure to welcome you to ‘Happy Days’ – the Enniskillen International Beckett Festival.

The world’s first annual Beckett Festival has an extraordinary programme that goes beyond the cultural, the literary and the artistic. We look forward

to what can only be described as a wide spectrum of events – some international, some local, all of quality and all special. By using venues in and around the island town of Enniskillen, the Festival will showcase our waterways, landscape, buildings and streets as a hub for arts, culture and sport. Whether you are familiar with Enniskillen or not, you will find unique events in unique places and a warm welcome to all.

THomAS o’REillY/CHAiRmAn oF FERmAnAGH DiSTRiCT CoUnCil

Beckett famously said that, “every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and

nothingness”. With due deference to the master dramatist’s economy of expression, then, I shall say only that the Arts Council of Northern Ireland is one of the principal funders of the Happy Days festival. It’s a great programme and we’re proud to be associated with it. It reminds us why Beckett continues to exert his singular influence on artists, audiences and readers around the world. I know you’ll find plenty to enjoy here.

The London2012 Festival is selecting once in a lifetime

commissions as the finale to the Cultural Olympiad, celebrating the Olympic & Paralympic Games. We are proud to be working with the first ever Happy Days Enniskillen bringing world class artists to lead this new festival in a beautiful tourist hot spot, with a castle, cafes, theatre, music, comedy, even a fringe - look out Edinburgh!

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WELCOME to the world’s first annual international multi-arts festival celebrating Nobel Prize writer Samuel Beckett, the man, his work and influences. Our Festival home, Enniskillen, is Ireland’s sole island town and lake district, an area layered with pasts from pre-christian, monastic, Ulster-Scots to the vital market town today. Our venues include castles, an 18th century grand house, a cathedral, churches and pubs as well as the Portora Royal School on the hill (1618) that

Beckett attended, as did Oscar Wilde before him. The Festival Centre is the Enniskillen Castle on the River Erne and the Festival Club is Blakes of the Hollow, ‘a cathedral of a pub’ writes Colm Toibin. Our programme is inspired by Samuel Beckett’s deep passion for many art forms. We hope you will be pleasantly surprised at the diversity of fare on offer as we seek to bring out the hugely humourous side of an extraordinary individual, in life and art. Happy Days - Laethanta Sona.

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ConTEnTSKrapp’s Last Tape ............................................... 4

Teatro Plastico. TheatreClastic ......................... 6

Pan Pan Theatre All That Fall. Lisa Dwan not i ................................................... 8

Antony Gormley.AtomEgoyan ....................... 10

joseph Kosuth Texts for nothing Exhibition .... 12

Moonlight Free Opening Concert ................. 13

Five Evening Music Concerts .......................... 14

The island town ................................................. 16

Classical Beckett .............................................. 18

in other words @ Mt. Lourdes:

Writers & Readings ........................................... 20

Visual Arts-Sound Arts ...................................... 24

Miss Fitt’s Comedy House ................................ 26

Bend it like Beckett Sports ............................... 28

The Venue Hubs Listings ................................... 30

The Happy Fringe, other activities .................. 32

The Festival Diary .............................................. 34

Contact info .....................................Back Cover

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Krapp’s Last Tape has been described as Samuel Beckett’s most perfect play. An old man on his birthday sits down to make a recording about the past year of his life, as he has done every birthday since a young man. Now bitter, funny, ironic, he finds it hard to recognise himself in the brash, romantic, confident voice of his youth recorded 30 years earlier.

Robert Wilson has often been compared to Samuel Beckett. Both are masters of stark and striking simplicity. In one radiant hour, Beckett and Wilson, in a few simple strokes, paint a vision of man and his world that is one of the

most poignant experiences in theatre.“I met Beckett in the early ‘70’s” says

Robert Wilson. “He’s been a tremendous influence on my work. He suggested I do his work and in talking to him, I realised how many things we had in common. He came backstage (Wilson’s show A Letter for Queen Victoria 1974/75) and said ‘I like your text very much’. He asked to have a copy of it. We agreed the actors we both liked best were the old Vaudeville actors. He said how much he admired Buster Keaton – a favourite of mine”

Robert Wilson is an extraordinary international cultural icon, arguably the

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most innovative and influential theatre director of the past 40 years. He has worked closely with artists as varied as Gianni Versace, David Bowie, Brad Pitt, Tom Waits, Philip Glass, Lou Reed and Jessye Norman. This production of ‘Krapp’s Last Tape’ has been a major hit in Paris, Rome and Rio De Janero.

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• SteenbeckettbyAtomEgoyan,ClintonCentre,p10• ThePeoplesMonologue,Friday,McArthurHallp14• PaintingsbyJasonSumray.Portora,p24• KrappAbove,PatrickMageeinKrapp’sLastTape,DormitoriesPortora.• KrappBelow,BeckettreadinglibrarycourtesyFaber&Faber,BasementPortora• TheCot,theflatbottomedboat,EnniskillenCastle• BabyCotRides–romanticpuntingontheRiverErne• TheKrappCafé,ArdhowenTheatrebythewater’sedge.• TheBeckettMuckballCup,Saturday,EnniskillenRugbyClubp28• Beckett-Lyte–HymnsfromBeckettswork,Sundaymorning• BeckettChessSet,EnniskillenCastle

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Direction, Set Design and Lighting Concept Robert WilsonCostumes Design and Collaborator to Set Design Yashi TabassomiLighting Design A.J. WeissbardSound Design Peter Cerone

A project by Change Performing Arts commissioned by Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg, Spoleto52 Festival dei 2 Mondiproduced by CRT Artificio, Milan


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These works of Samuel Beckett are little parables about the human struggle to understand and survive in an often confusing and changing world but aided with the power of Beckett’s laughter as a means to fill the pain of existence and the emptiness of waiting. Since 2007, Portugal’s Teatro Plástico has dedicated itself to the work of Samuel Beckett, recognising him as the most influential author of contemporary

theatre. Their cycle of work attempts to bring the dramatic, poetic and audiovisual potency of Samuel Beckett into a new context by confronting works of different genres and periods and exploring our inescapable universe as a mental and physical territory that remains fundamental to define an understanding of our reality and our humanity.

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THEATRE ClASTiC Act without words 1 is a mimodrama written for a single character. It is interpreted here by a puppeteer and his puppet, faithfully rendering the movements and the repetitive gestures which Beckett recorded in eight pages of stage directions. Humourous, sad, oddly mesmerising and playful this is a

kind of stage animation that will appeal to all ages, children and adults. The Kafkaesque tale, punctuated by whistles, tells “ without words “ the temptations, the decisions, the actions and the resolutions of a character in the grip of the desire to wish, in the will to want...

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ProductionClasticThéâtrewith

the support of the City of Paris,

the Grand Parquet and the

Festival Paris Beckett.

ClasticThéâtreissupported

by the Ministry of Culture and

Communication, DGCA and

DRAC ile-de-France, the Region

ile-de-France, the General

Council of the Hauts-de-Seine

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PoRToRA RoYAl SCHool, STEElE HAll (60minS)FRi & SAT AUGUST 24TH & 25TH, 12Pm £10 & £8, SPECiAl FAmilY TiCKET £20 UK AnD iRiSH PREmiERE Suitable for children of all ages

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In All That Fall we encounter Maddy Rooney in her seventies – unsightly, ungainly and unwell – laboriously to-ing and fro-ing between her home and Boghill Railway Station.

All That Fall is a multi-layered composition of voices that can be experienced as a black comedy, a murder mystery, a cryptic literary riddle or a quasi-musical score, but that gains from being experienced in Pan Pan’s uniquely atmospheric, theatrically tuned listening chamber.

‘Rocking chairs are set at apparently random angles to each other and to the walls. The cushions have an image of a skull on them. The chairs sit on a carpet whose pattern is a stylized grid of a small town. The wall to the front is covered in large yellow lights that dim and shine in complex patterns through the performance. The ceiling is hung with yellow bulbs like lemons on a radioactive tree…The speakers hang to the right…ingenious…perfectly judged” Fintan O’Toole, The Irish Times

All That Fall won Best Sound Design

& Best Lighting Design at the irish

Times Theatre Awards 2011. Pan

Pan is represented by Sarah Ford /

Quaternaire (www.quaternaire.org)

Original broadcast 1957. The year

the railway closed in Enniskillen.

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•MissFitt’sComedyHouse@BlakesoftheHollowp26•TheHeadhuntersRailwayMuseum,DarlingSt.•ViewfromArdhowenTheatreofoldrailwayruins•TheBeckettSkullsRowingRace,Friday,p28


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Written by Samuel BeckettDirected by Gavin Quinn

Set and Lighting Design: Aedin CosgroveSound Design: Jimmy EadieDramaturg: Thomas ConwayDesign Assistant: Grace O’HaraProduction Manager: Rob UsherCast: Andrew Bennett, Phelim Drew, Sarah Greene, John Kavanagh, Nell Klemenic, Áine Ní Mhuiri, Robbie O’Connor, Joey O’Sullivan, David Pearse, Deaniel Reardon, Judith Roddy

The event begins with Lisa Dwan’s performance of NOT I (c.10 mins). This will be followed by a 10 minute documentary film, an interview with Billy Whitelaw. There will then be an after show discussion which Lisa joins as soon as she is out of make up and dressed!

Billie Whitelaw, one of Beckett’s greatest long time interpreters said: “Not I came through the letter-box. I opened it, read it, and burst into tears, floods of tears. It had a tremendous emotional impact on me. I knew then that it had to go at great speed”.

ACTRESS liSA DwAn (iRElAnD)PoRToRA RoYAl SCHool, STEElE HAllSATURDAY, SUnDAY, monDAY 4Pm, £8iRiSH PREmiERE

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•Siegeintheroom,BillieWhitelawNOTI,TheKeep, Enniskillen Castle.


Film Director Atom Egoyan’s STEENBECKETT (2002) features an obsolete editing machine, 2000 feet of 35mm celluloid and a video projection of a solitary man musing on memory as he eavesdrops on his younger self. Produced by the Artangel commissioning agency, the project was conceived while Egoyan was directing the actor John Hurt in Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape. Shot on 35mm, the film was edited on a Steenbeck – now something of a dinosaur in the digital post-production age – and the last reel became the centrepiece for an installation world premiered at the Museum of Mankind in London.

ATom EGoYAnSTEEnBECKETT (2002)/

Atom Egoyan, Steenbeckett (2002), The Artangel Collection

ClinTon CEnTRE HiGHER BRiDGES GAllERY, AUGUST 9TH - 29TH iRiSH PREmiERE

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ACKnOWLEDGEMEnTS

Atom Egoyan’s Steenbeckett

(2002) is part of The Artangel

Collection, an initiative to bring

outstanding film and video works,

commissioned and produced

by Artangel, to galleries and

museums across the uK. The

Artangel Collection has been

developed in partnership with

Tate and is supported by the

national Lottery through Arts

CouncilEngland,EsméeFairbairn

Foundation and the john

Ellerman Foundation.


THE GRAnD YARD, CASTlE CoolE ESTATE, JUlY 16 – SEPTEmBER 13 (60 DAYS) nATionAl TRUST EnTRAnCE FEE To CASTlE CoolE ESTATE £3 / £2woRlD PREmiERE

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Tree for Waiting for Godot 20122.9 x 2.8 x 2.9m

Square section stainless steel© the artist

With thanks to Ocean Mims, Antony Gormley Studio and Paul Fletcher, HTF

Stainless Steel Fabricator LtdCelebrating the Diamond jubilee of the

national Trust’s custodianship of Castle Coole.© the artist

World renownedsculptor Antony Gormley has created a tree specially commissioned by the Happy Days Festival towards a future Australian Aboriginal-Irish co-production of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. Antony has kindly agreed for the Tree from this production to be displayed as part of our inaugural festival.

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•FestivalOpeningConcert,PlayitagainforSam, Thursday, St. Michael’s Church. p 13•PaintingsbyJeremyHenderson‘Acountryroad. A tree. Evening’. Waterways ireland Building, p 24•GoodGodot:Beethoven’sTheGhostTrio, St. Michael’s Church, 3pm Saturday p 19•Didi&Gogo’sSundayAfternoonCrricketMatch- Artists vs Critics, Portora, p 29•BeckettChessSet,EnniskillenCastle


JoSEPHKoSUTH Joseph Kosuth’s stunning installation delivers a sensory experience of great artistic assurance and playful reward for the spectator. Expect bright neon sculptural text amidst darkness and a

specially commissioned rubber flooring for the viewer to tread. This is a floating world where one artistic colossus (Kosuth) whose work questions the very nature of art pays homage to the writer (Beckett) who more than any other questioned the very existence of the word and meaning.

A moving and mesmerizing initiation to the world of Beckett. Suitable for all ages. Why not take your shoes off for a heightened experience.

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THE CooPER wilKinSon BUilDinG (FlooR 3 – BEHinD Town HAll, EnTRAnCE oPPoSiTE DollAKiS RESTAURAnT) AUGUST 9-29 UK AnD iRiSH PREmiERE

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joseph Kosuth‘(Waitingfor-)TextsforNothing’SamuelBeckett,inplay,2010Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, AustraliaPhoto: Christian Capurrocourtesy the artist

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Our FREE opening concert to launch the Happy Days Classical Beckett programme is the ever popular Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata to be played twice, a wry nod to the ‘same again’ of Act 1 & 2 in Samuel Beckett’s ‘Waiting for Godot’ and that play’s moontime.

Llÿsr Williams has performed with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Hallé Orchestra and Mozarteum Orchestra, Salzburg. He appears regularly at the BBC Proms in London and the Edinburgh Festival. This is his Irish debut.

HAPPY DAYS/EvEninG ConCERTS

‘… Williams communes with the piano as if seeking new layers in a palimpsest. The results can be revelatory’

Fiona Maddocks, The Observer, 21 August 2011

THE moonliGHT SonATA BY lUDwiG vAn BEETHovEn, PlAYED TwiCE.llŸR williAmS, PiAno ST. miCHAEl’S CHURCH, THURSDAY, AUGUST 23RD 9Pm SHoRT & FREE! (ConCERT DURATion 30minS)

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JoSEPH KoSUTH

in recent years the world acclaimed

American conceptual artist, joseph Kosuth,

has designed installations and façade work

for The Bundestag German Parliament, the

MuséedeLouvreinParis,theCouncilof

State of the netherlands and the national

Library in Paris. He was awarded a Cassandra

Foundation Grant in 1968, at the age of 23,

as the choice of Marcel Duchamp one week

before he died. in 1993, he received the

Menzione d’Onore at the Venice Biennale

and was named Chevalier de l’ordre des Arts

et des Lettres. in 1999, in honour of his work,

the French government issued a 3.00-franc

postage stamp in Figeac. in 2001, he received

the Laurea Honoris Causa doctorate in

Philosophy and Letters from the university

of Bologna. in 2003, Kosuth was awarded

the Austrian Republic’s highest honour

for accomplishments in science

and culture, the Decoration

of Honour in Gold.

‘TExTS (wAiTinG FoR-) FoR noTHinG’ SAmUEl BECKETT, in PlAY/

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“At university I was so overwhelmed by having access to a very large library that I spent my first term reading nothing but complete collections of Irish plays - Shaw, Wilde, O’Casey, Synge, Behan, Beckett – rather than studying what I was supposed to.. Beckett is, of course, better known for his plays and novels, but his relatively small output of poetry is quite special. I have chosen six poems for the collection, four of which are performed here:

My way is in the sand flowing, I would like my love to die, Song and Something There.”

Gavin Bryars

A native of St. Johnston, Donegal, and former member of the Kilfenora Ceili Band and Bothy Band in the 1970s, legendary Irish fiddler Tommy Peoples creates a special once-only evening for the Happy Days festival with his looking back to the recordings of c.30 years ago placed alongside his playing of now. This unique evening, mixing past and present, promises to be one of the great future memories of Happy Days 2012.

THE PEoPlES monoloGUE FRiDAYMcArthur Hall, Wesley St. (behind Darling St. Methodist Church) Friday, August 24th 8.30pm £12

GAvin BRYARS AnD EnSEmBlE SATURDAYTheSinkingoftheTitanic–amemorialconcertandTheBeckettSongbook(world premiere). St. Macartin’s Cathedral, Saturday August 25th, seated 7pm for 7.12pm start £12.50 / £10

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DUKE SPECiAl SATURDAYDarling St. Methodist ChurchSaturday 25th, 9pm £12.50Dynamic, bracingly eccentric and with an inimitable stylish musicality, Duke Special is an artist aptly named. Hailing from Belfast with a sound that is self-confessed “hobo-chic”, Duke Special - AKA the endlessly inventive Peter Wilson - is once heard, never forgotten. Duke Special’s immense creative talents have seen him involved in projects as diverse as writing the

theme tune for Sesame Tree (the Northern Ireland edition of Sesame Street where he also got to sing with The Muppets) to writing the music for and appearing in Deborah Warner’s critically acclaimed 2009 production of Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children at London’s National Theatre. Blissfully at home in his own alluring genre of beautifully bruised romanticism, Duke Special inhabits a world filled with vaudeville-esque sensibility, sing-a-longs and addictive melodies .

“This is the music of magic and soul” Daily Telegraph


The Sinking of the Titanic (1969) is now a classic. It achieves that rarity of being a critical masterpiece as well as very popular with audiences. Bryars makes use of materials derived from both his own research and speculations about the sinking of the “unsinkable” ship. His starting point was

“Autumn”, the hymn tune the band was reportedly playing in the final moments of the disaster, which Bryars scores for string quartet and weaves into other musical and non-musical material, including fragments of interviews with survivors and sequences of Morse Code.

Preceded by a short reading of Samuel Beckett’s Texts for Nothing No. 12, read by actor Len Fenton.

Samuel Beckett’s single favourite piece of music, Schubert’s Winterreise, is the Mount Everest of song cycles. It’s an immense work and one of the greatest masterpieces produced within the European musical tradition. Its narrative depicts the solitary walk of a despondent man, away from a town of his rejected love and toward another of ominous portent.

Ian Bostridge CBE is one of the world’s most highly acclaimed song interpreters. His concert engagements include the Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw, New York Philharmonic and Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestras. He has also worked with maestros Sir Colin Davis, Seiji Ozawa, Riccardo Muti, Daniel Barenboim and James Levine among others. He has recorded Winterreise with Leif Ove Andnses,Mitsuko Uchida, and made an art-film version of it with Julius Drake his accompanist.

A winner of the Kathleen Ferrier Award, Ruby has sung on many of the world’s leading opera stages and concert halls including the Royal Opera House London, Deutsche Oper Berlin, San

Francisco Opera and La Monnaie Opera House Brussels. She has given concerts with Sir Colin Davis, Michael Tilson Thomas, Ricardo Muti, Christophe Dochnanyi and Antony Pappano, and sung alongside colleagues Jose Van Dam, Ian Bostridge and Bryn Terfal. Ms Philogene was especially invited to sing for Princess Diana.

She has recorded with EMI and Deutsche Gramaphon.

Franz Schubert four songs: An die Musik, Lied der Mignon (Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt), Sei mir gegrüsst, Heidenröslein. Johannes Brahms two songs: Immer leise wird mein Schlummer, Das Mädchen Richard Strauss three songs: Ich trage meine Minne, Morgen, Cäcili Gabriel Fauré four songs: Ici bas, Les Berceaux, Claire delune, Apres un rêve. Camille Saint Saens aria: Mon coeur s’ouvre (Samson et Delilah ) Spirituals: Balmin Gilead, Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen, Gospel train.

THE PEoPlES monoloGUE FRiDAYMcArthur Hall, Wesley St. (behind Darling St. Methodist Church) Friday, August 24th 8.30pm £12

iAn BoSTRiDGE (TEnoR) AnD JUliUS DRAKE (PiAno)SUnDAYWinterreise by Franz Schubert. St. Macartin’s Cathedral, Sunday August 26th, 6.27pm £15 / £12.50

RUBY PHiloGEnE mBE (mEzzo SoPRAno) AnD JUliUS DRAKE (PiAno) monDAYHappy Days Closing Concert - celebrating the Diamond jubilee of the national Trust at Castle Coole Entrance Hall, Castle Coole, Monday August 27th, 6pm, £15 (with glass of wine)

Tasc is Tuarisc (Death and Account)Entrance Hall Castle Coole Sunday, August 26th, 3pm (concert duration 60mins)See p.18&19

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EAST•Startfromjustofftheeast

bridge with the Horseshoe & Saddlers pub (good food upstairs), on corner at junction. Dunnes, Tesco, Asda and Erne Shopping Centre all nearby.

•Thisendyou’llalsofindmost of the town’s takeaways clustered together (great prices).

• Molloy’s fish shop, a cracker for fresh fish and oysters from the Donegal coast. And O’Doherty’s famous Black Bacon shop (don’t leave without some in your suitcase) some of the best meat in town..

•Uno’s cocktail bar in vicinity of Hepburn’s clothes shop! Think dolce vita.

•Fermanagh Herald Offices. Pop in and tell them you have come all this way for the Beckett Festival. (If you’re a local, pretend you’re from Australia).

•Youcrossontotheislandjustby the Clinton Centre (the Hostel, nice café wifi for a small fee). The lovely orange building opposite is the old orange hall. They teach Irish language classes there now. The walls have ears…

•Magee’s Spirit Store. And eerily established by a Patrick Magee namesake. Raise a glass to the great Northern Irish actor who world premiered Krapp’s Last Tape.

•Health Food Store. Beckett’s wife Suzanne had a very health conscious regime for her husband. Feel free to follow suit…

•Flo’s Restuarant (piping hot hearty food). Have a rest and a whisper on the bench outside. Her younger friend Frou Frou just a few doors down (best cakes in town but see the dentist on Belmore St. after, best in UK we hear).

•The Impartial Reporter – give them your very opinionated thumbs up for Happy Days.

•The Bush Bar (free wifi), nice modern bar, its interior runs right to the back with lookout to the River Erne (where the baby cot ride on the back river might be). Corner Bar next it.

•The Linen Hall (Weatherspoons). Your only chance for an English Ale. Cheapest hot food and beer prices in town. Free wifi at the back.

Our Festival Director Sean Doran, before he took life too seriously, was the original co-author for the Rough Guide to ireland (1989). So here’s Sean’s ‘quickandcheerful’guidethroughEnniskillen’sserpentinesinglestreetof4 names, up and over two little hillocks Town Hall & Cathedral/Churches, surprise, surprise. This is Enniskillen’s answer to Edinburgh’s Royal Mile (a wee mile) with its own busy hubbub of 14 restaurants (some bars), 12 bars, 10 cafes and 10 hairdressers! Also check out the shop window displays along the street. For August, come to the new Edinburgh and ireland’s BECKETT TOWn.

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CEnTRE• Pat’s Bar (opp Town

Hall), nice bar and free wifi available.

•DownstreetbyTownHall it’s cosmopolitan Enniskillen – Three Greek, Indian and Italian restaurants. Look up from any of them and you’ll see the Joseph Kosuth Exhibition (the one with rubber floors and neon – children friendly!)

•BuyaBeckettbookinEason’s, EK’s one serious lonely bookshop (not for long…). Newspapers here and Centra across road.

wEST•TheAnglicanCathedral

(St.Macartins) and Catholic Church (St.Michaels) stare each other down 20 paces apart. And the blushing pink Methodist Church a few doors away, a beauty inside. They all look back down on Blakes (likely where Beckett may have sipped his first whiskey and Guinness) and Charlies Bars (hosts literary meetings, so support it!) in the hollow below.

•Stewart’s butchers. If you’ve had enough of the radishes, carrots and turnips.

•Libraryonstreetdownby Cathedral. Free computer use, if you join.

•AbsolutelydonotmissHeadhunters Railway Museum, nostalgia. Only barbers in the Ireland where bald people don’t feel out of place.

•Forthetiring(andretiring)thespians returning from

Portora, grab a coffee in the Darling St. coffee shops – Devenish (wifi), Aisling Centre, Russell & Donnelly’s (nice delicatessen, best wine store north of the border) and Jolly Sandwich.

• Grab a cab taxis, bottom of Darling Street

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new Beckett outdoor chess set by local sculptor Alan Milligan at Enniskillen Castle.

•Seekoutlocalrestaurantswith new menus from Beckett ingredients in his works and vote for the most innovative and Beckettian one.

•Goonarelaxingromanticgondola like punt on a baby Erne Cot on River Erne back river.

•Anddon’tmissChefBilly’slunches in the Portora dining hall where Beckett fed. A Divine Comedy 3 course lunch (inferno, purgatorio, paradise), a cross between a 1920s canteen lunch and haute cuisine! All for only £13

•WatchoutonSundaymornings, mostly everything is closed except the churches.

•There’sanamazingfreeconference by the grand Improbable Theatre, Devoted & Disgruntled, in the Clinton Centre to debate theatre. It’s FREE. You’d be mad not to join in if you like making theatre. Sat & Sun

That’s about it without mentioning all the car parks that have all the best views of the river. Apologies for any of Sean’s oversights to those he neglected to mention. Entirely his fault and not that of the rest of the team. you can track him down holding court in the Festival Club (Blakes) for the entire festival, not working like the rest of us. Signed The Happy Days Team


Haydn: Piano Sonata in e minor No.34; Schubert: Piano Sonata in C major D840Liszt: Petrarcha Sonnet No.104; Liszt: Tarantelle di bravura (from Venezia e Napoli)

Llÿr Williams read music at The Queen’s College, Oxford and went on to take up a postgraduate scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music where he won every available prize and award. Most recently he was the recipient of the prestigious The South Bank Show award for his interpretation of the complete Beethoven Piano Sonatas cycle in Edinburgh last summer. Llÿr Williams is the subject of two films: one won a Welsh BAFTA for Best Music Programme, and the second featured his debut at Carnegie Hall

HAPPY DAYS/ClASSiCAl BECKETT

Haydn.: Piano Trio in A-major Hob. XV/18 Schubert: Adagio “Notturno” D.897

Beethoven: Piano Trio in B-flat major op.97 “Archduke”

One of the world’s great piano trios on their first visit to Ireland play the composers most loved by Samuel Beckett.

“It seemed to me that as a writer the texts of

songs would have been as important to Beckett as his love for the music so I have tried to bring together some of the poets that influenced him. I found many references to his huge admiration for Goethe. Erlkonig was used in an unpublished short story “Echo’s bones”(1933).

Beckett’s poem “Gnome” was inspired by reading Goethe’s masterpiece “Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship”. He was also a great admirer of Heine. His debt to Verlaine is evident and no more so than in the fact that the title “Happy Days” is a translation of “Oh les beaux jours” from Verlaine’s

“Colloque sentimenal”. The title “The lost Ones” originates in Lamartine’s “Meditaions poetique” and in the story “Fingal” from ‘More Pricks than Kicks’ there is the line “…bons vins et Lamartine, a champagne land for the sad and serious…” Beckett also published an English translation of Apollinaire’s ‘Zone’.

The poem Montparnasse is particularly poignant as it describes a young idealistic poet coming to live in Paris and Beckett in fact lived in Montparnasse himself and is buried in the cemetery there along with Heine. All these connections led me to present this programme uniquely for the Happy Days Festival” Sophie Daneman

SoPHiE DAnEmAn (SoPRAno) & JUliUS DRAKEDarling St. Methodist Church. 10.30am. £12& £10Monday August 27th

llŸR williAmS, PiAno.Friday 24 August Castle Coole, Entrance Hall, 10.30am. £12 & £10

THE viEnnA PiAno TRioDarling St. Methodist Church, 10.30am. £15.00 & £12.50 Saturday August 25th

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MEnDELSSOHnAuf Flugeln des Gesanges (Heine)Die Liebende schreibt (Goethe) neue Liebe (Heine)

SCHuBERTAn den Mond (Goethe) Erlkonig (Goethe)

SCHuMAnnLiebeslied (Goethe)Die Lotosblume (Heine)2 songs from Wilhelm Meister; (Goethe) Singet nicht in TrauertonenKennst du das Land

DEBuSSyFetes Galantes 1; (Verlaine)En sourdine FantochesClair de lune

FAuREMandoline (Verlaine)

GOunODAu rossignol (Lamartine)

POuLEnCMontparnasse (Appolinaire)3 songs from Banalites; Voyage a ParisHotel Sanglots


PRECioUS liTTlE AFTERnoon RECiTAl(15 minS)Free - 3 Short Afternoon RecitalsFriday August 24th, St. Michael’s Church, 3pmRuby Philogene MBE, mezzo soprano. Piano Paul PlummerGustav Mahler Ruckert Lieder, 3 songs Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (I am lost to the world)Ichatmet’ einen linden Duft (I breathed a gentlefragrance)Um Mitternacht (At midnight) Former winner of the Kathleen FerrierPrize, Ruby Philogene, sings a precious tribute to the renowned contralto KathleenFerrier in the 100th Anniversary year of her birth (1912).

PRECioUS liTTlE AFTERnoon RECiTAl (20minS) Free Saturday August 25th, St. Michael’s Church, 3pmThe Vienna Piano TrioLudwig Van Beethoven The Ghost Trio - Largo assai ed espressivo. Piano Trio in D Major ‘Ghost’ Op 70 No. 1. One of Samuel Beckett’s favourite works after which he named one of his own teleplays. The slow movement of Beethoven’s Ghost Trio (10mins) is played twice.

PRECioUS liTTlE AFTERnoon RECiTAl(15minS) Free Monday August 27th St. Michael’s Church, 3pmSophie Daneman (Soprano) and Julius Drake(piano)Haydn’s Ariadne auf Naxos.

An Evening of Music and Film on reflection of Beckett’s novella Mercier and Camier.

Performed by Dr. Catherine Laws pianist and musicologist with a special focus on the musicality of the work of Samuel Beckett, Seamus Harahan an award winning artist, Ciarán Maher composer and installation artist whose principal interests are in pitch perception, tuning and simple perceptible

processes, filmmaker David Prior and poet Larry Lynch. Prior has made a series of short films often characterized by their brevity and simplicity. On a number of these films, Prior has collaborated with poet Larry Lynch. Curated by Dr. Helen Sharp.

BECKETT lYTESt. Macartin’s Cathedral, St. Michael’s Church and Enniskillen Methodist Church, Sunday August 26th Spend a Sunday morning taking time out from the festival programme. Listen to some of the Hymns from Beckett’s prose and plays along with hymns written by another renowned Portora pupil Henry Francis Lyte (Abide with me) in one of Enniskillen’s three iconic churches atop the hill of its main street.

DARK AT iTS FUllFriday August 24th, 7.30pm Entrance Hall Castle Coole £12 / £10

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MEnDELSSOHnAuf Flugeln des Gesanges (Heine)Die Liebende schreibt (Goethe) neue Liebe (Heine)

SCHuBERTAn den Mond (Goethe) Erlkonig (Goethe)

SCHuMAnnLiebeslied (Goethe)Die Lotosblume (Heine)2 songs from Wilhelm Meister; (Goethe) Singet nicht in TrauertonenKennst du das Land

DEBuSSyFetes Galantes 1; (Verlaine)En sourdine FantochesClair de lune

FAuREMandoline (Verlaine)

GOunODAu rossignol (Lamartine)

POuLEnCMontparnasse (Appolinaire)3 songs from Banalites; Voyage a ParisHotel Sanglots

TASC iS TUAiRiSC (DEATH AnD ACCoUnT)Entrance Hall Castle Coole, Sunday, 3pm (60mins) £8Piano Trio of sean nos singer, fiddle and pianoPerformed by Lorcán Mac Mathúna, Daire Bracken, Paul SmythComposed by Lorcán Mac Mathúna, Simon O’Connor, Daire Bracken.

Inspired by Schubert’s Winterreise, Táscis Tuairisc explores the descent into madness on the most notorious expedition of the 19th century, the Franklin polar expedition.

SPECiAl oFFER:All moRninG mUSiCFRi, SAT, SUn - £253 ClASSiCAlmUSiC EvEnTS - £30


Edna O’Brien has written over twenty major works of fiction and landmark biographies of Lord Byron and James Joyce. Her debut novel, ‘The Country Girls’, established her as one of the world’s most significant women writers and her popularity is undimmed to this day.

She is the recipient of many awards, including the Irish

Pen Lifetime Achievement Award, the American National Arts Gold Medal and the Ulysses Medal.

In this unique ‘In Conversation’ event, Edna O’Brien talks of her passion for Beckett’s writing, their friendship, their relationship to Ireland and much more.

William Crawley is a BBC journalist and broadcaster.

Samuel Beckett said of James Knowlson: he is ‘the one who knows my work best.’ They were friends for over twenty years and Knowlson’s biography of Beckett, Damned To Fame, is for many the definitive life of the man. Here, in conversation, James Knowlson examines the extraordinary role that Samuel

Beckett played, and continues to play, in his life.

James Knowlson is the founder of and advisor to the Beckett International Archive at the University of Reading

HAPPY DAYS/TAlKSoFFiCiAl FESTivAl oPEninG EvEnT EDnA o’BRiEn in conversation with William Crawley, Thursday, August 23rd Ardhowen Theatre, 7.30pm £15

will SElFFriday, August 24th, 4pm Mt Lourdes £10 / £8

‘inTRoDUCinG SAmUEl BECKETT wiTH BECKETT’S BioGRAPHER JAmES KnowlSonFriday, August 24th at 1.10pm Town Hall Committee Room £10 / £8

The complex relationship between mind and body was an ongoing theme in Samuel Beckett’s work. It’s also present in Will Self’s writing, from non-fiction such as Walking to Hollywood to his most recent novel, Umbrella. Join one of the most acclaimed, provocative, challenging and entertaining writers at work today.

‘In these culturally straitened times few writers would have the artistic effrontery to offer us a novel as daring, exuberant and richly dense as Umbrella.’ John Banville.

Lady Antonia Fraser and her husband, the late Harold Pinter, were friends for over a number of years with Samuel Beckett. Pinter freely acknowledged Beckett’s influence, particularly in his early plays; in later life, when they became friends, they would send each other drafts of their work in progress for comments. In this special festival event, Lady Antonia discusses Beckett’s influence on Pinter’s work and on the friendship the three of them shared.

Antonia Fraser’s historical works have become international bestsellers, including Mary Queen of Scots (winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize), The Six Wives of Henry VIII, and The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605.

lADY AnToniA FRASERFriday, August 24th 6pm, Mt Loudres £10 / £8

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Maggi Hambling, one of Britain’s most distinguished artists, discusses the background to her first

encounter with Beckett’s work, the beginning of a life-long fascination.

‘Max Wall began to pose for me during Easter 1981. After the last sitting for ‘Max Wall and his Image’ (Tate Collection), we went through his lines for the role of Vladimir, which he was to play in Waiting for Godot at The Roundhouse, London, that summer. His performance was widely acclaimed and I went five times. This experience revealed the play I consider the most profound of the twentieth century. The resulting series of work formed part of my exhibition Max Wall by Maggi Hambling at the National Portrait Gallery, London, in 1983. Beckett encouraged in me a more lively conversation with death. He has, from that time on, directly or indirectly, been an ever-present muse for my work.’

Maggi Hambling

Two of the world’s finest poets come together specially for the festival. They read from their own work and discuss the influence of Beckett on their life. Paul Muldoon poetry has been awarded the Pulitzer and the T. S. Eliot prizes for his work; Alice Owald has also been the recipient of the T. S. Eliot Prize as well as the Ted Hughes award.

‘The result is rather like watching a juggler add more and more flaming torches and chainsaws, until it seems impossible for him to keep everything up in the air.’ The Barnes and Noble Review on Paul Muldoon’s Maggot.

‘This beautiful, bleak poem comes down to the insanity of war……Oswald has achieved a miraculous feat.’ Daily Telegraph on Alice Oswald’s Memorial.

mAGGi HAmBlinG: Saturday, August 25th 12pm, Mt Loudres A Lively Conversation With Death £10 / £8 PAUl mUlDoon

AnD AliCE oSwAlD: Saturday, August 25th 4pm, Mt Loudres £10 / £8

James Knowlson and Anne Atik Arikha had the privilege of being close friends with Beckett. In their company he could relax and be himself. James Knowlson held many conversations with Beckett over the years in the course of writing his acclaimed biography. The poet Anne Atik’s memoir, How It Was, describes evenings Beckett spent with her and her husband, the painter Avigdor Arikha; it reveals, amongst much else, the profound importance that music and art played in Beckett’s life. They share a stage now to celebrate the man that they knew.

JAmES KnowlSon AnD AnnE ATiK ARiKHASaturday, August 25th 8.30pm, Mt Lourdes £10 / £8

SHivAUn o’CASEY AnD DAviD GoTHARDSaturday 25th August, 6pm, Mt. Lourdes £10/£8The plays of Beckett are renowned for the challenges they present to actors and directors. Shivaun O’Casey and David Gothard discuss their own experience of engaging with Beckett’s work.

Shivaun O’Casey is an actress, designer and director. Her father was the playwright, Sean O’Casey, and she has directed his plays around the world. She has also directed Beckett, who admired her father’s work. Though Beckett and her father never met, they corresponded and over the years, until her father’s death in 1964, she relayed messages between the two of them. David Gothard is a writer and director. When he was artistic director of the Riverside Studios in the 1980’s he brought pioneering visual theatre to London; during this time the Riverside hosted rehearsals, supervised by Beckett, for productions of two of his plays (Endgame and Waiting For Godot) by the San Quentin Theatre Workshop.

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From amongst all the novels, plays, short prose and poetry, how do you go about selecting a favourite Beckett text? Novelists Tim Parks and Carlo Gebler and actres sand writer Pauline McLynn reveal their choices and explain why.

Tim Parks is the author of the international best-seller, Teach Us to Sit Still; his latest novel is The Server. Pauline McLynn

is probably best known as the housekeeper, Mrs. Doyle, in Father Ted. Last year she played the role of Winnie in Happy Days at the Sheffield Crucible; she is also the author of five novels. Carlo Gebler’s books include How To Murder A Man and (written with Patrick Maguire) My Father’s Watch: The Story of A Child Prisoner in ‘70’s Britain. His latest novel is The Dead Eight.

The theme of walking is ever-present in Beckett. Characters who walk the roads endlessly or those who bemoan their inability to walk at all. In his own life he tramped the streets of Paris and London and in earlier years roamed

the Wicklow hills with his father. Raja Shehadeh and Paul Farley discuss the relationship between walking and landscape.

For Raja Shehadeh, his walks in the hills around Ramallah also had powerful familial and ancestral connections as he

describes in Palestinian Walks: Forays Into A VanishingLandscape, which won the 2008 Orwell Prize. Raja Shehadeh is Palestine’s leading writer. Heis also a lawyer and the founder of the pioneering Palestinian human rightsorganisation Al-Haq. His other acclaimed books include Strangersin the Houseand A Rift In Time. Paul Farley is an award-winning poet, whose non-fiction book,Edgelands (co-authored with Michael Symmons Roberts) is a journey into England’s overlooked wilderness and won the Royal Society of Literature’s Jerwood Award. His latest collection, The Dark Film, came out earlier this year.

Samuel Beckett began writing in English, switched to French for ten years for the creation of new works, and then returned

unexpectedly to English. John Banville and George Craig explore the impetus behind this movement between two languages and more broadly the challenges that translation presents.

John Banville won the Booker Prize in 2005 for The Sea and his latest novel, Ancient Light, has just been published. George Craig is one of the editors of The Letters of Samuel Beckett (the first two volumes of which have been published) and author of Writing Beckett’s Letters.

RAJA SHEHADEH AnD PAUl FARlEYSunday, August 26th 12 noon Portora Castle (by the water’s edge). 10min riverside walk from school or first right road turn after Portora by playing fields, weather permitting otherwise Portora Royal School £10 / £8

JoHn BAnvillE AnD GEoRGE CRAiGSunday, August 26th, 4pm Mt Lourdes £10 / £8

PAUlinE mClYnn , Tim PARKS AnD CARlo GEBlERSunday, August 26th 8.30pm Mt Lourdes £10 /£8Chaired by nicholas johnson

STiRRinGS STillTo be read by Adrian Dunbar, Saturday August 25th 6.00am, inishmacsaint Church£10roundtrip–EnniskillenCastleto inishmacsaint and back

A dawn pilgrimage by land to Inishmacsaint back by water where two of our Festival artists will read from Beckett. Leaving from Enniskillen Castle at 5.30am, the ticket will include a Purgatorio breakfast!

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Dublin, Paris and London were the three cities most closely associated with Beckett. The festival brings together three artists to explore their individual relationships with each city. Novelist Claire Kilroy considers the influence of Dublin on her work, Alba Arikha (daughter of the painter Avigdor Arikha and the poet Anne Arik Arikha, and Beckett’s god-daughter) discusses her memoir Major/Minor about growing up in Paris in the 80’s, and actor Adrian Dunbar looks at the importance of London a a theatrical capital in his life.

Claire Kilroy’s new novel, The Devil I Know, is published in August. Alba Arikha’s other books include Muse and Walking On Ice; she is also a singer/songwriter. Adrian Dunbar co-wrote and starred in the film Hear My Song, Other film credits include The Crying Game and The General.

miDniGHT EDiTionS lATE niGHT SHoRT BECKETT TExT READinGS (c.20mins) by guest readersSt. Michael’s Crypt 11pm(1min from Blakes)

PAUlinE mClYnn , Tim PARKS AnD CARlo GEBlERSunday, August 26th 8.30pm Mt Lourdes £10 /£8Chaired by nicholas johnson

ADRiAn DUnBARThe Chess Scene from Murphy - To launch the specially commissioned outdoor Beckett Chess Set. Enniskillen Castle, Thursday 23rd, c.7.30pm, Free

JoHn CAlDER AnD JoHn miniHAn: Monday, August 27th 12noon, £10 /£8

ClAiRE KilRoY, AlBA ARiKHA, AnD ADRiAn DUnBAR Sunday, August 26th Time 6PM £10 /£8

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@ mT. loURDES In their respective careers as publisher and photographer, John Calder and John Minihan are probably most closely associated with one man, Samuel Beckett. They discuss what that association has meant to them, both personally and professionally.

John Calder has published writers such as Henry Miller and William Borroughs and, in addition to Beckett, two other Nobel Laureates, Heinrich Böll and Claude Simon. Almost single-handedly, Calder has been

responsible for introducing the French writers Alain Robbe-Grillet and Marguerite Duras to Britain.

In a café in Paris in 1985 John Minihan took what was probably the single most famous image of Beckett. They met originally in 1980 and John photographed him over a number of years, culminating in his book, Photographs: Samuel Beckett.

John Minihan photograph’s will be on display in the Seale Room, Portora Royal School.


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In an uncanny way stepping into Jeremy Henderson’s paintings is almost parallel to entering the world of Samuel Beckett. Henderson’s use of titles for his work puts a specific slant on the

paintings, in as much they direct the viewer towards a particular way of seeing that is both intelligent and ironic.

Art critic Aiden Dunne says: “There is an ironic

distance between artist and subject, a distance emphasised by whimsical, allegorical, portentous and variously discursive titles. The titles relate the paintings to the artist’s inner world. But the paintings are singularly oblique messengers. He is a painter of considerable talent and some achievement”. (1987).Jeremy Henderson was born 1952 and died 2009.

He attended Portora Royal School as did Beckett, later painting between London and Fermanagh. He once described the painting of a tree as Paracelsus, the 15th Century philosopher, said “A tree throws out its meaning without the use of an alphabet”.

KRAPP’S lAST TAPE: PAinTinGS BY JASon SUmRAY (2011)The Entrance Hall & Cloisters Gallery Portora Royal School, August 22nd-27th The imagery in this striking series of large paintings arose from London based artist Jason Sumray’s experience of seeing Beckett’s one man play for the first time, ‘Krapp’s Last Tape, performed by Michael Gambon.

Room FoR BECKETTThe Lobby, Castle Coole House10am–5pmA special room for Beckett of eminent painters the writer admired - Jack Yeats and Avigdor Arikha - and influenced, Maggi Hambling. The small collection of 8 paintings we have specially curated includes Jack Yeats’ Among the reeds, Water on its way and Return of the Wanderer.

PAinTinGS BY JEREmY HEnDERSonA country road. A tree. Evening. THE GALLERy WATERWAyS iRELAnD HEADQuARTERS, 2 Sligo RoadEnniskillen. August 3rd-31st 10.00-5.00 weekdays, August 23rd-27th, 11.00-5.00 including weekend

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LOuGH ERnE PROuD TO SPOnSOR THE 2012 HAPPy DAyS FESTiVAL

john Hansen and Stuart irwin were appointed joint Administrators of Castle Hume Leisure Limited on 12 May 2011. The joint Administrators contract as agents of the company without personal liability.

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Discover the extraordinary basement of Castle Coole - one of the National Trust’s treasures - through a sonic interpretation of selected Beckett works including ‘Company’ and ‘Molloy’. Walk through the historic kitchen, servant’s hall, wine cellar and the other restored rooms of Castle Coole’s basement listening to Barry McGovern and Natasha Parry’s renditions enhanced by sound worlds composed by John D’Arcy (Sonic Arts Research Centre, Belfast) and directed by Cathie Boyd (Cryptic) creating an immersive journey through Beckett’s texts and characters. Voice recordings taken from the album ‘… The Whole Thing’s Coming Out of the Dark’ : Voices - Barry McGovern and Natasha Parry. Instruments - Helicon, Trombone and Slide Trumpet - Uwe Dierksen. Directed by Klaus Buhlert. Produced by Intermedium (Bayerischer Rundfunk).

SamuelBeckett–words/sounds&movingimagesCastleCooleBasement,11.00am–4.00pmdailyFREE

“... THE wHolE THinG’S CominG oUT oF THE DARK”


“Britain’s greatest entertainer” (★★★★★ Time Out) outlines a few brittle thoughts on ambition, failure and why he would’ve preferred to be an ambassador. Or in theory a rock star. Featuring: SWOT analysis, silence and repetition. Ever Tried. Ever Failed. No Matter. Try Again. Fail Again. Fail Better. completed a sell-out run at the Edinburgh Festival 2011 ahead of four

sold out nights at London’s Soho Theatre.

“Edward Aczel is Britain’s greatest living anti-comedian” The Guardian

“Aczel turns unprofessionalism into an artform. A real attraction” The Times

Josh Howie’s comedy examines the human condition and his own neuroses with a fierce intelligence and erudtion.

Despite the bleakness of his outlook his yarns unravel with sparkling playfulness and impressive wit. Josh has had three highly-acclaimed Edinburgh Festival runs

and has made frequent television appearances on Comedy Central and Sky Movies. A regular

contributor to The Guardian, he also writes a weekly column ‘Fears of a Clown’ for Blokely.com.

“Terrifyingly funny. Howie is a charming, diffident, articulate man with a show that is as fascinating as it is funny. He is a terrific talent.”

The Scotsman

JoSH HowiE: i THinK mY STAlKER’S AvoiDinG mE.THURS 7.30Pm

miSS FiTT’S ComEDY HoUSE

Stuart Silver presents his ‘Big Picture’ monologue on getting perspective. A philosophical almost-narrative of perilous received wisdoms and long-distance ambitions. With ukulele when you least expect it. And when you expect it.

Following highly successful runs at Soho Theatre and The London Word Festival, this first solo show from co-founder of Perrier

Award-winning, Bafta-nominated collaboration (nobleandsilver), sees a technically stripped back, musical Stuart Silver.

“★★★★ Its lurches of logic keep your head buzzing long after it ends... It’s not like anything else… Dreamlike and forensic” The Times

“A surreptitiously seductive experience.” The Guardian

EDwARD ACzEl: EvER TRiED. EvER FAilED. no mATTER. TRY AGAin. FAil AGAin. FAil BETTER.FRi 7.30Pm

STUART SilvER: YoU looK liKE AnTSSAT 5.00Pm

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miSS FiTT’S ComEDY HoUSE

After twenty-two Edinburgh Festivals and eighteen Glastonburys, Phil Kay is still breaking ground as a touchy-feely, mad, zippy, euphoric, outrageous, true, ampheta-Kind, come-off-the-stage-and-cuddle-you, whispering-a-song-in-your-ear-type-humour guy with stuff to offer that no other comedian can: his soul and a bare bum.

Join the multi-award winning stand-up comedian

for an unruly and joyful hour of super-sharp and super-blunt material, topical thoughts, sensical whimsy, song, story and dance. “A freewheeling mind permanently stuck in fifth gear” The Scotsman “The real deal... treats every gig like a one-off event.” The Guardian

PHil KAY: HUmoUR THAT iS ABSURDlY PoSiTivE.SAT 7.30Pm

John-Luke Roberts presents an hour of life-changing but ultimately pointless thinky comedy nonsense. A writer for Radio 4’s The News

Quiz, and seen on BBC3’s Live From the Edinburgh Festival.

“Brilliant Solo Debut” The Independent “A fantastically ornate but deeply silly brand of comedy, dripping with absurd puns and utterly unexpected left turns” The Guardian “Structurally impressive, constantly inventive, and playfully mischievous” Time Out

JoHn-lUKE RoBERTS:

A CoGEnT DEFEnCE

oF ABSURDiTY – livE!

SUn 3.00Pm

In her 20s Liz was diagnosed with MS. She overcame the illness with psychoanalysis, which led her to train as a psychotherapist herself. In AAA Rating (Age, Alzheimers and Anxiety) she examines the absurdity of modern life and the frailty of the human body using poetry, comedy and a casio keyboard.

“We’ve yet to see an audience fail to be drawn in and love her... She is also, simply, hilarious.” The Londonist “Like a female Ivor Cutler” The Scotsman

liz BEnTlEY: AAA RATinGSUn 7.30Pm (1HR)

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BEnD iT liKE BECKETT

Observe, with drink and burnt offering in hand, from Belacqua’s Barbecue on the Enniskillen Castle Firing Range at The Festival Centre.

In partnership with The Boat Club @ Portora Royal School.

THE BECKETT BiKE-iT: PEDAl FoR PURGAToRY FAmilY CYClinG CHAllEnGEColebrooke Estate (near Brookeborough). Saturday August 25th,10am.A fun competitive event involving a cycle around the beautiful Colebrooke Estate completing small physical, mental and skill based teak challenges en route. Each team will be presented with a map,

route and series of challenges that they must undertake which will be scored throughout. The team completing the cycle challenge with the most points will be deemed the winner.

Colebrooke Estate in association with Share Discovery Village. Cost £60 for a team of 4.

Suitable for all ages. Equipment required: Bike and helmet, suitable loose clothing, sun cream, sun glasses and hat. Share have a range of bikes that are available for hire at a small extra cost.

For more information or to participate contact: (W) www.sharevillage.org/events(E) [email protected] (T) 02867722122

HAPPY DAYS/SPoRTS

At Portora Royal School (1920-23) Samuel Beckett excelled at sport representing the school’s 1st XI and XV in Cricket and Rugby respectively, playing alongside Irish Rugby International Alan Buchanan. He was well known for his highly competitive spirit and became the Light Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the school. He also won medals in swimming and rowing at Portora. He was passionate about sports all his life tuning in to international rugby on the radio, regularly attending Lords when rehearsing in London. And he can lay claim to being the only Nobel Prize winner in Cricket’s Wisden Almanack.

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THE BECKETT SKUllS RowinG RACERiver Erne at the Broadmeadow, Friday August 24th, 6pm (Free)


DiDi & GoGo’S SUnDAY AFTERnoon CRRiCKET(free) Artists vs. Crritics. Sunday August 26th, 2.00-5.00pm. Portora Royal School. (free)Cricket Field Teams will be selected by invitation but if you are coming to Happy Days Festival and rate yourself as a cricketer who plays art or criticism (or vice versa!) enter your name to the Festival Office. You may just be Lucky.

In partnership with Portora Old Boys Cricket Club To be chosen contact Festival Office.

THE SAmUEl BECKETT mUCKBAll CUPSaturday August 25th 2012. Enniskillen Rugby Club (15mins out of town)1.30pm Old TimersMatch–wedoubtitwilllastmorethan15minutes. (free)2.00pm Followed by a pre season match: Enniskillen Rugby Club vs. Visitors (The Perhaps Team?). Shuttle buses will leave the car park by the Festival Centre Enniskillen Castle between 12pm-1pm and return after the match from Enniskillen Rugby Club between 4pm & 5pm (10min drive/Free).In partnership with Enniskillen Rugby Club.

SEEKinG THE FASTEST ARTiST in iRElAnD - oPEn CHAllEnGEAugust 24th-27th 2012. FinALS Monday August 27th (free)Track Time Trials by the Lakeland ForumIf you’re an artist, writer, painter, musician, even a comedian - come and compete for the inaugural title of The Fastest Artist in Ireland. Contact Festival Office for details.

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THE RAinY DAY-CART BiCYClE RAllYAn all weekend open invitation to our visitors to bring your bicycle to Enniskillen, vintage or state of the art, and be seen to cycle to all our venues in honour of Beckett’s cartesian love of the humble bicycle.


THE iSlAnD Town vEnUES THE FESTivAl CEnTRE - EnniSKillEn CASTlE (between Broadmeadow and the west bridge)noon to 10pm•OutdoorBeckettChessSet(free)•TheFrenchLobsterTent–popular music from 6pm•TheFrenchChampagneTent•Bonnelly’sWineBar•TheReelInn–traditionalmusic house (free)•Belacqua’sBarbecueontheFiring Range (free)•TheSiegeintheRoom:NOTI Teleplay in The Keep (free) •FestivalInformationOffice– Enniskillen Museum•TheMaguire’sWhiskeyBar–Pot Stills•TheChatton&WindupBookshop•ClownandDanceStage•BicycleHires•Watertaxistopoffpoint(nearest Waterbus stop off The Lakeland Forum (2mins walk)

THE FESTivAl ClUB @ BlAKES oF THE Hollow (main street a few doors down from St. Michael’s Church)noon to Midnight•CaféInferno(CaféMerlot)•TheQuietBar(thefrontbar)•MissFitt’sComedyHouse(Level7)-ticketed•PrivateMembersAloneLounge(Level6)•TheUpperBar–FestivalPatronsExclusive Bar (Just present a show ticket)

THE mAin STREET iSlAnD EAST EnDIn Other Words @ Mt Lourdes writers series 4pm, 6pm & 8.30pmThe Clinton Centre : Atom Egoyen’s Steenbeckett (free) & Improbable Theatre D&D theatre workshops

iSlAnD CEnTRE•CooperWilkinsonGallery–TheJoseph Kosuth Exhibition (free) •TownHall–IntroducingBeckettTalk (Fri 24th 1.10pm/free)

iSlAnD wEST EnDSt. Macartin’s Cathedral - Gavin Bryars Ensemble (Sat) and Winterreise (Sun)St. Macartin’s Hall (behind Cathedral) Beckett’s All That FallSt. Michael’s Church - The Precious Little Afternoon Concerts (3pm/free). The Late Night Crypt Readings (11.00pm/free, near festival club) Darling St. Methodist Church - Morning Music :Vienna Piano Trio (Sat), The Peoples Monologue p14The McArthur Hall (behind Methodist Church, entrance Wesley St.).

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THE iSlAnD Town vEnUES oFF THE iSlAnD vEnUES

iSlAnD CEnTRE•CooperWilkinsonGallery–TheJoseph Kosuth Exhibition (free) •TownHall–IntroducingBeckettTalk (Fri 24th 1.10pm/free)

iSlAnD wEST EnDSt. Macartin’s Cathedral - Gavin Bryars Ensemble (Sat) and Winterreise (Sun)St. Macartin’s Hall (behind Cathedral) Beckett’s All That FallSt. Michael’s Church - The Precious Little Afternoon Concerts (3pm/free). The Late Night Crypt Readings (11.00pm/free, near festival club) Darling St. Methodist Church - Morning Music :Vienna Piano Trio (Sat), The Peoples Monologue p14The McArthur Hall (behind Methodist Church, entrance Wesley St.).

PoRToRA RoYAl SCHool(west of island town, school gate entrance 4min walk from west bridge, road to Donegal)11am to 8pm•TheSteeleHall-NotI,Theatre Clastic and Teatro Plastico (ticketed)•EntranceHall&CloistersGallery– Paintings by Jason Sumray (free)•TheEndgameDiningHall-Chef Billy’s Divine Comedy Canteen Lunches Fri-Mon.•SealeRoom(oldLibrary)-Beckett Photographs by John Minihan – (free)•TheChapel–Beckett’sNachtUnd Traume teleplay (free)•KrappAbove–Dormitoryin attic: Patrick Magee’s Krapp recording (free)•KrappBelow–BasementCommon Room: (free)•TheSleepingClassroom– Company Scheduled recordings (ticketed)•TheValleyWindow–astillpoint, a rocking chair, a view into Lower Lough Erne. Back of Portora (free)•Watertaxistopoffpoint(nearest Waterbus stop off is The Round O, 1min walk to school gate entrance. ARDHowEn THEATRE

BY THE wATER’S EDGE(east of island town, 10min walk from east bridge, Dublin Rd. nr Killyhevlin and Belmore Court Hotels)•RobertWilson’sKrapp’s Last Tape (Fri-Mon)•TheKrappCafé•Departurepointfor Castle Coole (15min walk).•WaterbusandWatertaxi stop off point

CASTlE CoolE(east of island town, Dublin Rd, entrance across road from Ardhowen)•GrandYard–Antony Gormley’s Godot Tree•EntranceHall–Morning Music Llyr Williams (Fri), Tasc is Tuairisc (Sun) & Closing Recital Ruby Philogene (Mon)•MorningRoom–Beckettnotebooks and school bible•ServantsBasement&Tunnel– Beckett sound installation (free)•RoomforBeckett(Lobby1stfloor). Paintings (free)•FrenchPaintingsroom•TeaHouseandwalledgarden

lowER loUGH - THE minD in RUinS vEnUES(west of Portora, Shore Rd to Donegal. Waterbus from Round O)Devenish Island - …but the clouds… teleplay installation (free)•MVKestrelboatleavesRoundO10.30am, 12.15pm, 2.15pm and 4.15pm. Duration 1hr 45 min •InishmacsaintChurch–AwakeforSam(Sat 6am reading of Beckett’s Stirrings Still)•Shoreroad(15mins),TullyCastle–The Ghost Trio teleplay installation

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THE inAUGURAl HAPPY DAYS FRinGE

*nEw wRiTinG SHoRTS: Open Mic Session. Saturday 25th August, 3-6pm.The ButtermarketAll writers and participants welcome!

*imAGininG BECKETT’S EnniSKillEn. 23rd-27th August, Enniskillen Library, A History of 1920s Enniskillen.in association with Headhunters Museum, Fermanagh Writers Group and Fermanagh Authors’ Association.

*EnDGAmE PERFoRmED BY THE HACKlERS, CAvAn. 24th-27th August, 2pm. Blakes of the Hollow- Miss Fitt’s Comedy House (Level 7).

*CRUmBlE PERFoRmED BY moRA, nEw YoRK. 23rd-27th August, 8pm. Maximum audience capacity: 15. Site-Specific Theatre direct from its new york run. Venue and time details available from Festival Office/Enniskillen Castle.

* viSUAl ARTS FERmAnAGH: A BECKETT THEmED SHow. in shop opposite the Festival Club @ Blakes of the hollow

*BECKETT on SCREEn with Cinema north West’s Mobile Cinema, Festival Centre, Enniskillen Castle Car Park.For the full programme of films see www.cinemanorthwest.com

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We had no intention to have a fringe in our inaugural year! But, thankfully, we didn’t get our way. Here are some wonderful plucky events - diverse, contrasting, innovative - bringing another fresh impetus to Happy Days. Do support them and Happy Fringing.

For full and up-to date information on Fringe Festival Events check our website at www.happy-

days-enniskillen.com or the Festival information desk at Enniskillen Castle.

PLEASE nOTE: From 2013, the Beckett Fringe will accept work against two criteria only (1) works by

Samuel Beckett or (2) world premieres of new work in any art form. Fringe entries will open early

2013.

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THE inAUGURAl HAPPY DAYS FRinGE

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For full and up-to date information on Fringe Festival Events check our website at www.happy-

days-enniskillen.com or the Festival information desk at Enniskillen Castle.

PLEASE nOTE: From 2013, the Beckett Fringe will accept work against two criteria only (1) works by

Samuel Beckett or (2) world premieres of new work in any art form. Fringe entries will open early

2013.

lUnCH CooKED BY williAm GoUlDThe Endgame Dining HallPortora Royal SchoolFri, Sat, Sun, Mon August 24-27th, Sittings 1.15pm (capacity 70)£13 for 3 coursesEdinburgh cook William Gould’s stewpendous set lunches of 3 courses rise out of the depths of Inferno (starter), through Purgatorio (main) and finish in Paradiso (dessert). A cross between 1920s canteen lunches and haute cuisine, these recipes are designed from ingredients dug up in the poetry, prose and plays of Mr. Beckett. Come and sit in this Hogwarts like dining hall of long wooden tables where young Samuel Beckett was once fed!

DEvoTED AnD DiSGRUnTlEDTheClintonCentre,Sat25thAug14.00–19.00,Sunday26thAug10.00–13.00Do you love theatre?Do you feel audiences don’t get a voice?Do you feel like an outsider in your own profession?Are you looking to change things?In 2012 for the first time ever, you have the opportunity to take part in a unique nationwide conversation. “Devoted & Disgruntled: What are we going to do about theatre?” started first in 2006; this open and collaborative conference provided a chance to check in with the theatre community, to share the news about what was going well, talk about what could be done better and discuss action to improve things.

So if there are questions that you think should be asked, projects you want support on, things you want changed, join Improbable and the Devoted & Disgruntled 2012 Roadshow on Sat 14.00-19.00 and Sunday 10.00-13.00 in a conversation that could reshape the theatre landscape. This is a unique chance for your voice to be heard and for us to listen to each other, face to face and online, locally and nationally.

oTHER ACTiviTiESBECKETT BUCKETFestival Centre, Enniskillen Castle, 23rd–27thAugFloating World will make an artist’s book based upon peoples visual and verbalmemories of the work of Samuel Beckett. Members of the public were asked to describe their memories or knowledge of Beckett’s work and the artists Andy Parsons and Glenn Holman will transcribe them onto paper as images, texts or responses. This process started on the 23rd June at the Ulster Museum. The artworks that come out of this process will come together to form a compendium of peoples responses to Beckett’s work … a Beckett bucket.

floatingworldsprojects.blogspot.co.uk/

Seán Doran Founder and Artistic Director

Pádraig Ó Duinnín General Manager

Cathie Boyd Associate Artistic Producer

Liam Browne Associate Programming Director - Writers, Literature

Caroline Mabey Programmer, Miss Fitts Comedy House

Anna Vinegrad Press Officer (uK, international)

Alison Knox Marketing Manager

Sharon Curran Festival Launch Coordinator

Matt McFrederick Assistant to the Festival Director

james McFetridge Technical Manager

Susie Ramsay Festival Operations

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DiARYWed 22nd Aug Event Venue Time Page

Visual Arts Godot Tree, Antony Gormley (Opens July 16th)

Castle Coole 10am – 5pm 10

Steenbeckett, Atom Egoyan (Opens Aug 10th)

The Clinton Centre 10am – 5pm 11

Texts (Waiting For-) For Nothing, Joseph Kosuth (Opens Aug 10th)

Cooper Wilkinson Gallery 11am – 5pm 12

Jason Sumray ‘Krapp’ Paintings Portora Royal School 10am – 6pm 24

Jeremy Henderson (Opens Aug 3rd) Waterways Ireland Gallery 10am – 5pm 24

Room for Beckett (Opens Aug) Castle Coole 10am – 5pm 25

John Minihan Photographs Seale Room, Portora 10am – 6pm 23

Sound Arts “…the whole thing’s coming out of the dark”

Castle Coole Basement 11am – 4pm 25

Theatre All That Fall St. Macartin’s Hall 6pm, 8pm 8

Thurs 23rd Aug

Visual + Sound Arts Same as Wednesday 22 Aug

Theatre All That Fall St. Macartin’s Hall 4pm, 6pm, 8pm 8

In Other Words Edna O’Brien Ardhowen Theatre 7.30pm 20

Adrian Dunbar Enniskillen Castle 7.30pm 23

Miss Fitt’s Comedy House

Josh Howie Blakes of the Hollow 7.30pm 26

Classical Beckett Llyr Williams, Play It Again for Sam St. Michael’s Church 9pm 13

Beckett Lunch William Gould Portora Dining Hall 1.15pm 32

Fri 24th Aug


Theatre (Family) Act Without Words I Steele Hall, Portora 12noon 7


Teatro Plastico, Triple Bill Steele Hall, Portora 7pm 6

Krapp’s Last Tape Ardhowen Theatre 8.30pm (Preview) 4

In Other Words Introducing Beckett: James Knowlson Town Hall Committee Room 1.10pm 20

Will Self Mt. Lourdes 4pm 20

Lady Antonia Fraser Mt. Lourdes 6pm 20

Midnight Editions St. Michael’s Crypt 11pm 23


Ed Aczel Blakes of the Hollow 7.30pm 26

Classical Beckett Llyr Williams, Morning Music Castle Coole 10.30am 18

Ruby Philogene, Precious Little St. Michael’s Church 3pm 19

Dark at its Full (Music and Film) Castle Coole 7.30pm 19

Evening Concerts The Peoples Monologue McArthur Hall 8.30pm 14

Bend It Like Beckett BECKETT SKULLS Rowing Race River Erne at the Broadmeadow 6pm 28


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Sat 25th Aug



Theatre Not I Steele Hall Portora 4pm 9

All That Fall St. Macartin’s Hall 4pm, 6pm, 8pm 8


Krapp’s Last Tape Ardhowen Theatre 8.30pm 4


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DiARYWed 22nd Aug Event Venue Time Page

Visual Arts Godot Tree, Antony Gormley (Opens July 16th)

Castle Coole 10am – 5pm 10

Steenbeckett, Atom Egoyan (Opens Aug 10th)

The Clinton Centre 10am – 5pm 11

Texts (Waiting For-) For Nothing, Joseph Kosuth (Opens Aug 10th)

Cooper Wilkinson Gallery 11am – 5pm 12

Jason Sumray ‘Krapp’ Paintings Portora Royal School 10am – 6pm 24

Jeremy Henderson (Opens Aug 3rd) Waterways Ireland Gallery 10am – 5pm 24

Room for Beckett (Opens Aug) Castle Coole 10am – 5pm 25

John Minihan Photographs Seale Room, Portora 10am – 6pm 23

Sound Arts “…the whole thing’s coming out of the dark”

Castle Coole Basement 11am – 4pm 25

Theatre All That Fall St. Macartin’s Hall 6pm, 8pm 8

Thurs 23rd Aug



In Other Words Edna O’Brien Ardhowen Theatre 7.30pm 20

Adrian Dunbar Enniskillen Castle 7.30pm 23


Josh Howie Blakes of the Hollow 7.30pm 26

Classical Beckett Llyr Williams, Play It Again for Sam St. Michael’s Church 9pm 13


Fri 24th Aug





Krapp’s Last Tape Ardhowen Theatre 8.30pm (Preview) 4

In Other Words Introducing Beckett: James Knowlson Town Hall Committee Room 1.10pm 20

Will Self Mt. Lourdes 4pm 20

Lady Antonia Fraser Mt. Lourdes 6pm 20



Ed Aczel Blakes of the Hollow 7.30pm 26

Classical Beckett Llyr Williams, Morning Music Castle Coole 10.30am 18

Ruby Philogene, Precious Little St. Michael’s Church 3pm 19

Dark at its Full (Music and Film) Castle Coole 7.30pm 19

Evening Concerts The Peoples Monologue McArthur Hall 8.30pm 14

Bend It Like Beckett BECKETT SKULLS Rowing Race River Erne at the Broadmeadow 6pm 28


Fringe Various 32

Sat 25th Aug






Krapp’s Last Tape Ardhowen Theatre 8.30pm 4

Theatre Devoted & Disgruntled Clinton Centre 10am – 3pm 33

In Other Words Stirrings Still Inishmacsaint Island 6am 22

Maggi Hambling Mt. Lourdes 12noon 21

Paul Muldoon/Alice Oswald Mt. Lourdes 4pm 21

Shivaun O’Casey/David Gothard Mt. Lourdes 6pm 21

James Knowlson/Anne Atik Mt. Lourdes 8.30pm 21



Stuart Silver Blakes of the Hollow 5pm 26

Phil Kay Blakes of the Hollow 7.30pm 27

Classical Beckett Vienna Piano Trio, Morning Music Darling St. Methodist Church 10.30am 18

Vienna Piano Trio, Precious Little St. Michael’s Church 3pm 19

Evening Concerts Gavin Bryars St. Macartin’s Cathedral 7.12pm 14

Duke Special Darling St. Methodist Church 9pm 14

Bend It Like Beckett The Beckett Bike-It Colebrooke Estate 10am 28

The Samuel Beckett Muckball Cup Enniskillen Rugby Club 1.30pm 29


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Sun 26th Aug Event Venue Time Page





Krapp’s Last Tape Ardhowen Theatre 3pm, 8.30pm 4

Devoted & Disgruntled Clinton Centre 2pm – 7pm 33

In Other Words Raja Shehadeh/Paul Farley Portora Castle 12noon 22

John Banville/George Craig Mt. Lourdes 4pm 22

Claire Kilroy/Alba Arikha/Adrian Dunbar Mt. Lourdes 6pm 23

Pauline McLynn/Tim Parks/Carlo Gebler Mt. Lourdes 8.30pm 22



John Luke Roberts Blakes of the Hollow 3pm 27

Liz Bentley Blakes of the Hollow 7.30pm 27

Classical Beckett Beckett-Lyte Hymns Island Town Churches From 10am 19

Ian Bostridge St. Macartin’s Cathedral 6.27pm 15

Afternoon Concert Tásc is Tuarisc Castle Coole 3pm 15

Bend It Like Beckett Didi and Gogo’s Sunday Afternoon Crricket

Portora Royal School 2pm 29


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Mon 27th Aug



All That Fall St. Macartin’s Hall 10am, 12pm, 2pm 8

Krapp’s Last Tape Ardhowen Theatre 3pm 4

In Other Words John Calder/John Minihan Mt. Lourdes 12noon 23


Classical Beckett Sophie Daneman/Julius Drake, Morning Music

Darling St., Methodist Church 10.30am 18

Sophie Daneman/Julius Drake, Precious Little

St. Michael’s Church 3pm 18

Happy Days Closing Concert: Ruby Philogene/Julius Drake

Castle Coole 6pm 15

Bend It Like Beckett The Fastest Artist in Ireland Lakeland Forum From 2pm 29

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