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In 1963, Billie Whitelaw met Irish playwright Samuel Beckett. She and Beckett enjoyed an intense professional relationship until his death in 1989. He wrote many of his more experimental plays especially for her, referring to Whitelaw as "a perfect actress".
Apr 12, 2016 · I finally met Billie Whitelaw in 2006 a few months after my first performance of Not I in London. [Samuel Beckett’s nephew] Edward Beckett attended one those performances, and over a Guinness with me afterwards suggested it might be finally worthwhile to meet her “now that I’d found my own way.”
Dec 22, 2014 · In rehearsal for the 1976 premiere production of Footfalls at the Royal Court in London, Billie Whitelaw recounted Samuel Beckett’s direction:
Apr 13, 2020 · Billie Whitelaw was Samuel Beckett’s favorite actress and appeared in his plays for over twenty years. She tells Steve Paulson she never understood the plays but thinks Beckett’s a genius. And she describes some of the bizarre physical challenges the roles posed: in “Not I” she was strapped to a chair with only her mouth lit while she ...
Feb 14, 1984 · While acting Samuel Beckett, Miss Whitelaw has ritualistically paced back and forth across the stage in the half-light, been confined in an earthenware jug and she has been buried up to her...
Nov 6, 2017 · The actress Billie Whitelaw talks about her experience of working with Nobel Prize winning writer Samuel Beckett. "I looked at his work like music and to me ...
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Dec 22, 2014 · Billie Whitelaw: Actress hailed as one of the finest of her generation, best known as Samuel Beckett's muse and inspiration When she received her CBE from the Queen in 1991, she was so nervous...
