A veteran of regional theater, Broadway, film and TV, Irwin is a self-proclaimed “California boy” whose clowning roots go back to the Bay Area’s seminal Pickle Family Circus. Now, he's taking to the stage of ACTSanFrancisco.
When New York-based actor and clown-of-all-sorts Bill Irwin comes to American Conservatory Theater mid-October for six performances of his singular solo show, “On Beckett,” it won’t be his first time on the Geary Theatre stage. He and co-actor David Shiner brought their original two-handers “Fool Moon” and “Old Hats” here, and earlier this year Irwin appeared in guest spots in “Freestyle Love Supreme.
Irwin makes no claims to be a Samuel Beckett scholar. But one of the preoccupations of his artistic life has been to better understand, and to better perform, the playwright’s brilliant, allusive and often elusive work. In “On Beckett,” he explores that work — the comic, the tragic — through his sharply tuned sensibility as both a master clown and dramatic actor.
One of the things that’s become clearer in my mind from five years ago when I was struggling with the material: His writing is many things, and among that is a rumination on supremacy and authority and the assumption of supremacy on some people’s parts. Some people say he was not political. Untrue. One of the things he was doing was reflecting on our natural inclination toward superiority or inferiority in relationships.
You were 66 when you last performed “On Beckett” at A.C.T. Do these types of questions occur to you now because you’re older?
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