first love
Opening Night: July 24, 2008
Closing: July 27, 2008
Theater: Gerald W. Lynch
Acclaimed British actor Ralph Fiennes appears in First Love, Beckett’s disturbing reverie on loss. First Love tells the story of a man made homeless in the wake of his father’s death who becomes reluctantly involved with a woman he meets on a park bench in this harsh glimpse of what love might have been.
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July 24, 2008
Hearts and flowers, moons and Junes do not figure prominently in the lexicon of Samuel Beckett, to say the least. When a besotted victim of Cupid’s arrow does feel the need to inscribe the name of his beloved on the world in the short story “First Love,” he does not go looking for the nearest tree trunk.
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