Fire Below & Beckett Women at the Lyric Theatre & The Mac, Belfast
FIRE BELOW (A War of Words) by Owen McCafferty directed by Jimmy Fay at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast on the 14 th October 2017 Beckett Women: Ceremonies of Departure & BECKETT WOMEN: CEREMONIES OF DEPARTURE Presented by The Poets’ Theatre Not I Footfalls Rockaby Come and Go At The Mac, Belfast on the second of November, 2017 The Mac, Belfast has presented a conflation of four Beckett shorts under the pompous imprimatur, Beckett Women: Ceremonies of Departure , not that a deep-seated engagement with women, feminism or femininity underscores Beckett’s writing. Often Beckett’s work is deeply male oriented but in a blank, neutral sense. The male is usually an Irish tramp such as Molloy or Malone, and focuses on his aloneness and jagged ruminations in the chaos, the flux of experience or non-experience. By contrast Fire Below is a short plotless interlude in the lives of two middle-aged, middle-class Catholics and