Elaine Keogh in The Irish Times (subscription) alerts us to performances of two plays by Samuel Beckett inside the Fourknocks megalithic tomb in Co Meath, which, like Newgrange and other tombs in the area, is 5,000 years old.

“Stones, Bones and Beckett” will feature A Piece of Monologue and Breath, directed by Louise Kennedy, and will be performed over the next three evenings.

As with Newgrange, Knowth and Dowth, Fourknocks was constructed 5,000 years ago during the Neolithic period.

The three inner chambers once contained bone deposits of more than 60 individuals, including a significant number of children, along with “grave goods” such as stones, animal bones and beads

The performance, which is by invitation only, has been sanctioned by the Samuel Beckett estate. In addition to presenting A Piece of Monologue and Beckett’s famously short 35-second play Breath, an adaptation of John Montague’s poem Seskilgreen will be performed.

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