Company
By Samuel Beckett
September 2009
September 2018
The Latvian Society Theater
Provincetown Town Hall
April 2027
Christ Church Neighborhood House
EgoPo’s signature sensory experience of Beckett’s prose.
Originally developed in 1995 as a broadcast on National Public Radio with permission from the Beckett Estate, the piece was later developed into a live experience and grew into San Francisco's hottest theatrical event. Company invited blindfolded audience members to lie on their back in the dark and experience a journey through death (or is it sleep?), led by their own personal angel, and ending with cookies and milk. This piece opened the Beckett Season for the 2009 Philly Fringe, and was later revived for the 2018 Fringe in collaboration with Rowan University Department of Theatre & Dance, which then toured to the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival. Company will once again be revived, again in partnership with RUTD, in the 2026-2027 Immersions season.
Creative Team (2009)
Lane Savadove … Director
Chris Colucci … Sound Designer
Doug Greene … Production Manager
Danielle Kindt … Stage Manager
Cast (2009)
Nick Allin, Mark Cairns, Liam Castellan, Megan Hoke, Sarah Rachel Schol, Emily Ambash, Karina Balfour, Lindsey Burkland, Kaki Burns, Emily Cheney, Katherine Folk-Sullivan, Melinda Glass, Melinda Miller, Rachel O'Hanlon-Rodriguez, Christine Perrotta, Meredith Rich, & Veronica Wathome
Creative Team (2018)
Lane Savadove … Director
Jay Ansill … Live Music
Dane Eissler … Tour Associate
Abby Leyh … Stage Manager
Cast (2018)
Caitlin Ablaza, Caitlin Alvarez, Matt Basen, Nathan Benson, Raven Lanuza-Brown, Michael Buck, Nicola Jean, Elizabeth Darrell, Brian Gensel, Michael Grubb, Kyle Jacobus, Maria Konstantinidis, Maggie O’Connor, Robin Purtell, Aidan McDonald, Maddy Roberts, Claire Robinson, Adriana Santilli, Chelsea Sharp, Zachary Valdez, Kylie Westerbeck, & David Strattan White
About Samuel Beckett
Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish playwright, novelist, and poet.
Written in both English and French, his literary and theatrical works feature bleak, impersonal, and tragicomic episodes of life, coupled with black comedy and literary nonsense. Beckett is widely regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century, credited with transforming modern theatre. As a major figure of Irish literature, he is best known for his tragicomedy play Waiting for Godot (1953).
For his foundational contribution to both literature and theatre, Beckett received the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his writing, which—in new forms for the novel and drama—in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation."