BARRY MCGOVERN
Barry McGovern is recognised by many as one of the leading interpreters of the work of Samuel Beckett, has given many readings of Beckett's prose and poetry and has lectured on Beckett. His recording of the complete Beckett novels, Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable is available. Barry McGovern's one-man show I'll Go On first produced by the Gate over 25 years ago has played worldwide.

 

His TV work includes Giuseppe Conlon in Dear Sarah and Eamon de Valera in The Treaty. Films include Joe Versus the Volcano, Far and Away, Braveheart, The General and Waiting for Godot. Barry's award winning one-man Beckett show I'll Go On (from the novels Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable) which the Gate presented during the 1985 Dublin Theatre Festival has travelled worldwide.

 

Productions for the Gate Theatre, with which he has a long association, include Waiting for Godot, Endgame, and Happy Days. He played a major part in the Gate Theatre's Beckett Festivals in Dublin, New York and London, and was part of the all-Ireland tour of Waiting for Godot. Most recently he has appeared on stage in Death of a Salesman, Arcadia, A Christmas Carol, The Old Curiosity Shop, Sweeney Todd, The Home Place Watt and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. This autumn he will perform Watt on tour in the United States a part of the Imagine Ireland year-long focus on and celebration of Irish arts and culture in the US.

 

For radio he has directed All That Fall, and played Henry in Embers and Fox in Rough For Radio II. He also recently played Words in Words and Music with Owen Roe and the Crash Ensemble. Barry McGovern has worked with both the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra and RTÉ Concert Orchestra. Most recently he performed in a concert highlighting music and words from the Terezín Concentration Camp as part of the 2011 KBC Music in Great Irish Houses Festival.