How It Is
by Samuel Beckett
PERFORMANCE
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FROM 6 TO 21, JUNE 2026
PALAZZO DIEDO
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Palazzo Diedo and Gare St Lazare Ireland present the world premiere performance of How It Is by Samuel Beckett.
Directed by Judy Hegarty Lovett, performed by Conor Lovett and Stephen Dillane, sound design and composition by Mel Mercier and lighting by Simon Bennison.
Featuring design collaboration by artist Michael Craig Martin. Guest musician, Caomhin O Raghallaigh.
Samuel Beckett's novel How It Is is one of his most enigmatic works, a novel entirely without punctuation marks, its incantatory quality and rhythmic musicality are incomparable In a compelling innovation of form that pushes language to its limits, Beckett has created a work that is as evocative and emotionally charged as it is perplexing.
Gare St Lazare Ireland are leading exponents of Beckett’s writing and here they stage the poetry and musicality of the work in a site specific setting combining art, music and literature as a language event.