Photograph: Kyle Tunney

BOY. What am I to tell Mr. Godot, Sir?

VLADIMIR. Tell him . . . tell him you saw me.

Waiting for Godot

A play without performers, BECKETT’S ROOM tells the story of the apartment in Paris where Samuel Beckett lived with his partner Suzanne during the second world war. 

A story of Art and Resistance, the audience listen through headphones and gaze upon a spectacle of absence - the absence of bodies on stage focuses us more intently on their stories, on the world changing around us, and changed by us. 

The biography of a room, and an invitation to bear witness to a world as it disappears.

Beckett’s Room premiered on 23rd September 2019 at the Gate Theatre, Dublin as part of Dublin Theatre Festival.

Beckett’s Room has toured to Théàtre de Liège (November 2021), Warwick Arts Centre (December 2021), Sejong Arts Centre and Seoul Performing Arts Festival (October 2023), kindly supported by Culture Ireland.

For touring information please contact info@deadcentre.org

“It's an extraordinary piece, given a quiveringly terrifying life through the voices of Brian Gleeson and Barbara Probst as Beckett and Suzanne, and an equally wonderful support cast. Technically it’s superb. Intellectually it’s devastating. Emotionally it’s searing.”
Independent on Sunday

“Dead Centre and the Gate Theatre’s extraordinary new play”
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Musings in Intermissions

“In Dead Centre’s wildly ambitious production… there is meaning in the magic”
★ ★ ★ ★
Irish Times

“Truly magical”
★ ★ ★ ★
Irish Examiner

Set and Puppetry Design Andrew Clancy

Puppetry creation
Eugenia Genunchi
Ciarán Bonner
Jason Lambert

Puppeteers
Eugenia Genunchi
Ciarán Bonner
Jason Lambert
Justine Cooper

Voices  
Viviane de Muynck
Valentijn Dhaenens
Christoph Gawenda
Brian Gleeson
Moritz Gottwald
Barbara Probst
Laurence Roothooft

Light Stephen Dodd
Video José Miguel Jiménez
Sound and Music Kevin Gleeson
Sound design assistant Jenny O’Malley
Design assistant Florentina Burcea
Stage manager Mags Mulvey

Text Dead Centre and Mark O’Halloran
Dramaturg Nicholas Johnson
Translation / Assistant dramaturgs Peter Krauch & Céline Thobois
Direction Bush Moukarzel and Ben Kidd
Producer Aisling Ormonde 

Supported by the Arts Council. Beckett’s Room is a co-production with the Gate Theatre, Dublin. It was presented in Dublin Theatre Festival. Co-comissioned by Irish Arts Center and Warwick Arts Centre. Development was supported by the National Theatre Studio and the Trinity College Creative Challenge Award. The project was supported by the Goethe Institut, Dublin, and Dublin City Council.