Disembodied mouth unleashes Beckett on Paris theatre-goers

In a pitch-black theatre, a disembodied mouth spews Samuel Beckett in a breathless, non-stop monologue over a Paris theatre audience, in English, without subtitles. On the face of it, Beckett's "Not I" appears designed to be as indigestible as it is possible for a play to be: just eight minutes long, no other point of focus other than the floating mouth surrounded by blackness, and a galloping, demented text that is stream-of-consciousness with no obvious structure. The Nobel Prize-winning Irish playwright, novelist and writer who notably wrote "Waiting for Godot" and who died in Paris -- the city where he spent most of his life -- in 1989, was considered a postmodernist master of the "Theatre of the Absurd". For actress Lisa Dwan, also Irish, the very challenging nature of the play she has performed to full houses in London, New York and now Paris was its appeal.

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