GARE ST LAZARE PLAYERS IRELAND

Since 2000 GSLPI have toured to 63 separate cities in 21 countries worldwide. 63 cities in 21 countries worldwide.  MORE THAN ANY OTHER IRISH THEATRE COMPANY IN HISTORY.

The work is conceived to tour and our aim is that each production will have a long touring life that will bring it to the widest possible audience.

At the same time the company has toured annually in Ireland, 9 venues in 2006, 13 in 2007, 25 in 2008 and 27 in 2009.  

In 2010 we will tour 6 shows to 25 cities in 11 countries. Six shows to Twenty Five cities in Eleven countries!

International Touring in 2010. Basel & Geneva (Switzerland), Ankara & Istanbul (Turkey), Grahamstown & Pretoria(South Africa), Brisbane & Melbourne (Australia), Paris (France), London, Oxford, Bristol, Brighton & Edinburgh (UK) and Philadelphia, PA, Portland OR, Calabassas CA, New Haven, North Adams & New London CONN, Providence RI and Mamoraneck and New York City NY in the USA.  
CULTURE IRELAND has supported our touring to over 10 countries in the last five years. This has been vital in facilitating the touring. 

Repertory since 1997
All directed by Judy Hegarty Lovett and performed by Conor Lovett unless otherwise stated.
1997 Molloy by Samuel Beckett
1999 Malone Dies by Samuel Beckett
2001 The Beckett Trilogy - Molloy, Malone Dies & The Unnamable
2002 Lessness by Samuel Beckett - performed by Olwen Fouere.
2002 Behold Me Large by Der Lovett - performed by Der Lovett
2003 Swallow by Michael Harding - performed by Michael Harding
2004 A Piece of Monologue by Samuel Beckett - Directed by Walter Asmus
2004 Enough by Samuel Beckett - performed by Ally Ni Chiarain
2005 Texts For Nothing by Samuel Beckett
2005 Worstward Ho by Samuel Beckett - performed by Lee DeLong
2006 The Good Thief by Conor McPherson
2008 First Love by Samuel Beckett
2008 The End by Samuel Beckett
2009 Moby Dick adapted by Conor Lovett & Judy Hegarty Lovett from the novel by Herman Melville.
2010 The Calmative by Samuel Beckett

Recent Irish touring.
2006 to 9 venues with 7 Beckett titles.
2007 to 13 venues with The Good Thief by Conor McPherson
2008 to 25 venues with First Love (The End premiered at Kilkenny Arts Festival).
2009 to 27 venues with Moby Dick adapted by Conor Lovett & Judy Hegarty Lovett.
2010 to Cork & Dublin with The End and The Calmative by Samuel Beckett

Festivals in Ireland -
Kilkenny Arts Festival - 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2008
Dublin Fringe Festival - 1997, 1999, 2001,2002, 2004
Cork 2005 European Capital of Culture
Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival Belfast - 1999, 2001, 2002, 2008, 2009.
Beckett Centenary Festival Dublin 2006
Clifden Arts Festival 2007, 2008
Dublin Theatre Festival 2008

Festivals internationally.
Beckett In Berlin 2000
Salisbury Festival 2001
West Coast Beckett Fest 2004
Brighton Festival 2006
Beckett Centenary Festivals 2006,
UCLA Live, Los Angeles.
Bard College, New York.
Shanghai Beckett Festival.
Zurich Beckett Weekender.
Cracow Beckett Weekender.
APAP 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
Under The Radar 2009
Beckett Festival Buenos Aires 2009
International Festival of Arts & Ideas 2009 & 2010.
London Festival of Literature 2010
Brisbane Festival 2010
Melbourne Festival 2010
Time Based Art Festival Portland 2010
Edinburgh Festival 1998 & 2010
National Arts Festival of South Africa 2009 & 2010
Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture

MOBY DICK PRESS.

"A Must-see. Lovett holds us spellbound as he captures the humour as well as the wisdom of Melville" The Irish Examiner 

"Unmissable" Sunday Independent  "A distillation of Melville's genius" Irish Times. 

"This is an intensely deliberate, focused piece of work, out of which Melville’s writing emerges as the ultimate star of what is a constrained and lovely show." Sunday Business Post. 

"Lovett's capacity to hold an audience is remarkable. His voice control and subtle shifts of expression and movement seem effortless." The Guardian. 

"Superb. I loved it. It was mesmerizing." Eamon McCann (The View RTE TV) 

"This is Peter Brook, Empty Space Theatre. It was incredible" Sarah Keating (The View RTE TV)

"I felt as if I should be sitting at somebody's fireplace enjoying a storyteller tell me his story." Kate O'Toole.  (The View RTE TV).

Click here to see RTE's The View reviewing Moby Dick.

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The cracked and crackling narrator of First Love who tells of how he met a woman on a bench, went back to live with her, and left her as she was giving birth to his child- has all the pertinacity of that bonedeep fatigue which gives Beckett’s decrepit figures their ruthless strength.  Christopher Ricks

The text of First Love was written intended to be read and is recited in its entirety with the kind permission of The Samuel Beckett Estate and in the USA with the kind permission of Georges Borchardt Inc.