An Interview with Josh Gross and Alyssa Marie Mathews Puppeteers for Fears (PFF), now in its tenth year, is an Ashland, Oregon-based travelling theatre company dedicated to creating and performing original musicals that blend sci-fi, horror, and comedy. The troupe performed Beckett’s What Where at the Ashland Beckett Shorts Festival in October 2024, a darkly... Continue Reading →
‘It’s just your mouth’: Talking Rockaby and Not I with Jeni Jones
By Katherine Weiss Jeni Jones, pictured at Beckett's Relationships in Edinburgh Jeni Jones is best known in Los Angeles as an award-winning director, actor, and producer of film and theatre. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Theatre Directing from Fordham University and her master’s degree from CalArts in Directing for Film, Theatre and Television. She... Continue Reading →
Performing Beckett for incarcerated women: Waiting for Godot at FCI Victorville, 10 December 2024. By Katherine Weiss
Federal Correctional Complex Victorville In the darkness of an early December morning, I drove across the vast City of Angels to join the cast, director, and other creatives from the Geffen Playhouse and Gare St. Lazare Ireland’s Waiting for Godot. We would be traveling together to one of California’s largest prisons, the Federal Correctional Institution... Continue Reading →