How It Is

GARE ST LAZARE Ireland
HOW IT IS
BY SAMUEL BECKETT
1–7 OCT ONLINE ONLY
In partnership with The Everyman Cork and The Coronet,
London. In association with Dublin Theatre Festival and The
AbbeyTheatre. With the support of Watergate Theatre,
Kilkenny and Le Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris
'The unparalleled Beckett champions’. The New York Times.
Ireland’s pre-eminent Becketteers, Gare St Lazare Ireland
make a welcome return to Dublin Theatre Festival with the
world premiere of all three parts of Beckett’s towering
novel, How It Is, reimagined for film.
How It Is charts a journey undertaken by turns alone and
accompanied. Time and space are fragmented and juxtaposed
in one of the most eloquent and exquisite texts in the
Beckett canon, continuing the company’s critically
acclaimed and award winning exploration and illumination of
Beckett’s prose texts.
Judy Hegarty Lovett, in her 25th Beckett production,
directs actors Conor Lovett and Stephen Dillane (Game of
Thrones, The Crown) and sound designer/composer Mel
Mercier with The Irish Gamelan Orchestra, MÓNCKK and
tenor Mark Padmore, in a stunning marriage of words,
music and visuals amid the setting of the beautiful The
Everyman Theatre, one of the country’s most venerable
venues.
Licensed by Curtis Brown with the kind permission of The
Samuel Beckett Estate.

VENUE INFO & DATES
ONLINE ONLY
1 OCT: 3.30PM
2&3 OCT: 5PM
4-7 OCT: ON DEMAND
Duration: 6hrs 20 mins approx. no interval
Duration: 2 hrs. approx., with interval.
DIRECTORS NOTE
And so we go on. Six years in the making, at last we have all three parts of this
majestic novel as a single event, from the page to the stage and now to the screen.
We have embraced new forms and media exploring them just as the novel does with the
written word. Working with an assembled team of over 40 artists: some with us since
2015, others new, some at home in theatre, others in film, and it has been a joy. For
me the crossing of disciplines and the crossing of genres in this ambitious film
reflects the innovation and power of the unparalleled source work that is the novel,
How It Is by Samuel Beckett. This spirit of creative innovation is central to the
actors’ mastery of this unique text.
Judy Hegarty Lovett, September 2021
COMPANY INFO
GARE ST LAZARE IRELAND
For 25 years the Irish theatre company Gare St Lazare Ireland have staged Samuel Beckett’s
novels, short stories and unclassifiable later prose texts and, in the process, has made - and
continues to make- a significant addition to Beckett’s performance legacy. Through its fresh
and accessible productions the company offer audiences a ‘way in’ to Beckett’s work. Their
repertory of Beckett productions now consists of 19 Beckett titles.
As early as 2001 Fintan O’Toole, writing in The Irish Times about the company’s production
of The Beckett Trilogy, said that by making the work ‘at once completely clear and utterly
strange” the company “finds a way to by completely faithful Beckett". The hallmark of the
company’s work is collaboration. Founding artistic directors Judy Hegarty Lovett and Conor
Lovett have built a repertory that now includes 19 Beckett titles as well as an adaptation of
Herman Melville’s Moby Dick and new plays by Michael Harding and Will Eno. In 2022 they will
produce Will Eno’s ‘The Realistic Joneses’ which ran on Broadway in 2014.

CAST AND CREW
Directed and Designed by Judy Hegarty Lovett
Produced by Gare St Lazare Ireland and Maura O’Keeffe
Text performed by Conor Lovett and Stephen Dillane
Music Performed by Mel Mercier, Irish Gamelan Orchestra, MÓNCKK, Nick Roth and Claudia Schwab
Music Composition and Sound Design by Mel Mercier with Irish Gamelan Orchestra and MÒNCKK
With special guest: Mark Padmore
Film Lighting Design by Simon Bennison
Filming Direction by Louis Hegarty Lovett
Irish Gamelan Orchestra:
Claudia Schwab, Conor Soltan, Eimear Hurley, Eimear O’Donovan, Fidelma Hanrahan, James McGlynn,
JJ Riordan, Kelly Boyle , Kevin McNally, Laila Jedir, Leah Hearne, Mel Mercier, Anna Dore,
Muireann Levis, Nick Roth, Sinéad Hanrahan
MÓNCKK: Mel Mercier, Óscar Mascareñas, Nick Roth , Claudia Schwab ,Kelly Boyle ,Kevin McNally
Shadow Cast: Millie Ahern , Shane Corcoran, Imogen Deasy, Pearse Donoghue, Niall Holland,
Sean Keating , Una O’Brien
Editors: Zen Grisdale, Louis Hegarty Lovett
Filmed by Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Team coordinator: Crispin Woodhead
Lead Camera Operator: Sophie Adams
Crane Camera Operator: Edward Shaw:
Film Editor & Camera Operator: Zen Grisdale
Gimbal and Camera Operator: Kelly Jehanno
Camera Operator: John Dunlea
Camera Operator: Séamus Hegarty
First Assistant Director: Viko Nikci
Line Producer: Hugh Farrell
Stage Manager: Sadhbh Barrett Coakley
Assistant Stage Manager: Aoife Byrne
Production Assistant & Covid Compliance Officer: Lux Hegarty Lovett
Deputy Lighting Design and Production Electrics: Hanan Sheedy
Sound Engineers: Paul Ashe Browne and Tyler Kieffer
Boom Operator: Colm Hinchion
Vision Mixer: Louis Hegarty Lovett
Film Consultant: Grant Gee
Special Effects Propmakers: Sonia Haccius and Janneke Sparrius
Recording Engineer: Donncha Moynihan
Stage and set Construction: Triangle Productions
Everyman Crew: Seamus Hegarty, Sean Spillane, Joe Cusack, Alison White, Paul Lenihan, Lucas Perez.

Streaming by Areaman Productions.
Original Set Design on stage version of How It Is (Part 1)
by Judy Hegarty Lovett & Kris Stone
Original Lighting Design on stage version of How It Is (Part 1) by Kris Stone
Original Lighting Design on stage version of How It Is (Part 2) by Mick Hurley
The Irish Gamelan Orchestra and MÓNCKK performed on gamelan Nyai Sekar Madu Sari (Venerable Flower
of Honey Essence). Forged by master gong-smith, Pak Tentrem Sarwanto, in his forge in Solo,
Central Java in 1994, the instruments are housed at the Department of Music, University College
Cork, Ireland.
Special Thanks to Edward Beckett
SPONSORS & THANKS
Paul Ralston & Deb Gwinn
Allen Flynn, Flynn Hotels and the staff at the Imperial Hotel Cork
Sinead McDonald, The Doyle Collection and the staff at the River Lee Hotel Cork
Jerry & Roslyn Meyer
D. Kern & Betty Holoman.
Betty Thomas
Marie & Joe Donnelly
Naomi Wirthner & Séamus Dillane
Judy Kravis
John Macdonald
Gerard O'Connor
Nora Hickey M’Sichili and Le Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris
Joe Spano
Jeremy Herbert
James Rose
Sophie Motley, Sean Kelly and The Everyman.
Willie White, Stephen McManus and Dublin Theatre Festival
Anda Winters and The Coronet Theatre
Jen Coppinger and The Abbey
Joanna Cunningham and The Watergate Theatre
Dr Jeffrey Weeter, UCC
Decky O’Mullane
Neil Murray & Graham Mclaren.
Julie Kelleher
Canice Sharkey
Ruby Hegarty-Lovett
Simon Robinson & Elizabeth Houlton
Morgan Doyle
Mary McCarthy
Gerry Dukes
Theresa Hegarty
Harry McHugh
Anna Dore
Nora-Kate Mercier
Once Off Productions

Once Off Productions
Nano Nagle Properties
Rachel West and David Parnell at The Arts
Council
Christine Sisk and Valerie Behan at
Culture Ireland
Cork City Council
Crawford Art Gallery
Padraig Trehy
University of Readimg
Trinity College Dublin
Randy & Janet Roderick Buescher
Des O'Driscoll
University College Cork
Tablehurst Farm UK
The Wonderlab Makeup Academy
Anthony Cordingley
Arka Chattopadhyay
Anna McMullan
Lib Taylor
Irish World Academy of Music and Dance,
University of Limerick
Christopher J Herbert & Nancy Welsh
Kate Reid
Bryan & Martina Hassett
Barry and Maya Homburger
Karen Hegarty & Ben Shorten
Laura & Ken Lindgren
Gareth Evans
Peter O'Neil
Dermod & Margaret Lovett
Christine Monk
Brenda Moore McCann & Sean McCann
Evelyn Ridgley
John Hough, UCC
Bill Cashman, UCC
Eimer Reilly
Barbara & Steve Isenberg
Nicholas Johnson
Tom Creed
Peter Crudge & Aoife O'Sullivan
Lynne Parker
Paula Shields
Anthony Hanley
Conor Mullan
Eoin O'Shea
Gareth Evans
Peter O'Neil
Dermod & Margaret Lovett
Christine Monk
Brenda Moore McCann & Sean McCann
Evelyn Ridgley
John Hough, UCC
Bill Cashman, UCC
Filmed at The Everyman, Cork, Ireland.
Funded by
The Arts Council of Ireland and Culture Ireland
Accommodation Sponsors
Flynn Hotels – The Imperial Hotel, Cork.
Filmed at The Everyman, Cork, Ireland.
The Doyle Collection – River Lee Hotel, Cork and Marylebone Licensed Hotel, by Curtis London Brown Group
with the kind permission of The Samuel
Beckett Estate.
Funded by
The Arts Council of Ireland and
Culture Ireland
Accommodation Sponsors
Flynn Hotels – The Imperial Hotel, Cork.
The Doyle Collection – River Lee Hotel,
Cork
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