Actor and GWU alumna Emily Wilson spoke with us today. Having trained at GWU and then at the esteemed Jacque Lecoq school in Paris, Emily has been living and working in France for 10 years where she established a theater company and produces new works. Emily discussed the Samuel Beckett play “Fragments”, directed by Peter Brook, a highly regarded modern director based in Paris. Emily’s husband Jos Houben, also an actor, was formerly a lead performer is this production. Her lecture put us in a better position to understand and integrate the play into our understanding of modernism.
Tonight we attended the play. Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord is housed in an incredible old theater space founded in 1876 by Wilhelm II, and recently renovated but maintaining its gritty charm and seedy elegance. Becket’s five short plays pull together many of the theses we have discussed over the course.
As the quintessential modern playwright, Beckett’s “Fragments” was a valuable addition for the course syllabus. The evocative and humorous plays wrestle with the human condition. Seeing “Fragments” here was a perfect last night to the course!
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