When Oscar-winning director James Marsh (The Theory of Everything, Man on a Wire) came on board Dance First, the illuminating new Samuel Beckett biopic starring Gabriel Byrne, he never thought he would spark intrigue on todays political brouhaha. When I began to read Beckett again in middle age, what struck me was that he sort of caught something about our present zeitgeist that I found really interesting, which is often in Beckett’s plays, characters are in very absurd situations, but don’t really acknowledge that absurdity, Marsh told MovieWeb in a recent interview.
The Theory of Everything director draws parallels between the unspoken absurdity found in Beckett’s plays and today’s political upheavals. Read More