Beckett Women

an evening of shorts

By Samuel Beckett

Not I. Footfalls. Come and Go. Quad.

In a secret garden, damp and dripping, bodies do battle by the light of the moon.

Four women reveal themselves, their histories written on the body. Compulsion and Embarrassment wander the garden in their socks. They rage at the humdrum, giggle about dying, fall down and up. Truth seeps between words and we stumble upon Beckett secrets that have been hiding in the open all along.

This collection of Beckett shorts unfolds as an expansion of bodies and a contraction of text. Not I is a monologue for a mouth. Footfalls is a dialogue for feet. Come and Go is a tria-logue of hands. And Quad is a silent stalking of four bodies through the void. Beckett Women weaves these four rarely produced pieces together into one world, drawing out resonances and disrupting audience expectations to meet Beckett anew.

Dive deep into the play with Pancho Savery’s Essay on PETE’s Beckett Women.

Production Credits:

January 11th - 25th, 2020

Reed Performing Arts Building

Diver Studio Theatre

Written by Samuel Beckett

Directed by Rebecca Lingafelter^

Performers:

Chantal DeGroat+

JoAnn Johnson+

Cristi Miles^+

Rose Proctor

Movement director: Amber Whitehall^

Sound design: Mark Valadez*

Scenic design: Peter Ksander*

Lighting design: Miranda K Hardy*

Costume design: Jenny Ampersand*

Props design: Maggie Heath

Jacob Coleman^: Producer

Molly Gardner*: Production Manager

Kristina Mast^+: Stage Manager

Isabel McTighe: Production Assistant

Olivia Mathews: Assistant Director

Rebecca Miles: Production Assistant/House Manager

Zoe Jennings: Assistant Stage Manager

Trevor Sargent: Master Electrician

Bekah Gillock: Box Office Manager

^PETE Company Member

*PETE Associate Artist

+Member of Actors’ Equity

Made possible with support from Ronni LaCroute, Reed College, the Regional Arts and Cultural Council, The Collins Foundation, The Oregon Arts Commission, The National Endowment for the Arts and The Kinsman Foundation.

Show Sponsors

Ronni LaCroute

Pancho Savery

Harold Goldstein and Carol Streeter