Rough for Theatre 2 (Original title)
Date: 2001 (Television)Countries: Ireland, United KingdomDirector: Katie Mitchell
Synopsis: Filmed adaptation of the play by Samuel Beckett. Written in French in the 1950s, two men, `A' and `B', try to assess the life of `C', who is standing motionless, with his back to the audience, ready to jump out of the window. A and B review his life with mass documentation as though he were not present. The documents are mainly quotations from C's acquaintances. A and B consider the flotsam and jetsam of C's life including his confessed `morbid sensitivity to the opinions of others'. Distracted by the electric light and the love-birds they find in a cage, they do not appear to be giving their task due concentration. They finally decide to let him jump, only to discover he is already dead.
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Date: 2001 (Television)Countries: Ireland, United KingdomDirector: Katie Mitchell
Synopsis: Filmed adaptation of the play by Samuel Beckett. Written in French in the 1950s, two men, `A' and `B', try to assess the life of `C', who is standing motionless, with his back to the audience, ready to jump out of the window. A and B review his life with mass documentation as though he were not present. The documents are mainly quotations from C's acquaintances. A and B consider the flotsam and jetsam of C's life including his confessed `morbid sensitivity to the opinions of others'. Distracted by the electric light and the love-birds they find in a cage, they do not appear to be giving their task due concentration. They finally decide to let him jump, only to discover he is already dead.
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Credits
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Production Company: Blue Angel Films, Production Company: Tyrone Productions, Commissioning Company: Channel Four, Commissioning Company: Radio-Telefís Éireann, In association with: Bord Scannán na hÉireann
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Jim Norton (A), Timothy Spall (B), Hugh B. O'Brien (C)