Editing Samuel Beckett (section)

===Billie Whitelaw===
[[Billie Whitelaw]] worked with Beckett for 25 years on such plays as ''[[Not I]]'', ''[[Eh Joe]]'', ''[[Footfalls]]'' and ''[[Rockaby]].'' She first met Beckett in 1963. In her autobiography ''Billie Whitelaw... Who He?,'' she describes their first meeting in 1963 as "trust at first sight". Beckett went on to write many of his experimental theatre works for her. She came to be regarded as his muse, the "supreme interpreter of his work", perhaps most famous for her role as the mouth in ''[[Not I]]''. She said of the play ''Rockaby'': "I put the tape in my head. And I sort of look in a particular way, but not at the audience. Sometimes as a director, Beckett comes out with absolute gems and I use them a lot in other areas. We were doing ''Happy Days'' and I just did not know where in the theatre to look during this particular section. And I asked, and he thought for a bit and then said, 'Inward' ".<ref>[http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article5423443.ece ''The Times Literary Supplement'' 31 December 2008 ''Princes and players''.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615072950/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article5423443.ece |date=15 June 2011 }}. Retrieved 31 March 2010</ref><ref>[http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/whitelaw.html Whitelaw Biography – State University of New York.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201223005833/https://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/whitelaw.html |date=23 December 2020 }}. Retrieved 31 March 2010</ref><ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/feb/10/mondaymediasection.classics Guardian article ''Muse'' 10 February 2000.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306041708/http://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/feb/10/mondaymediasection.classics |date=6 March 2016 }}. Retrieved 31 March 2010</ref> She said of her role in ''Footfalls'': "I felt like a moving, musical [[Edvard Munch]] painting and, in fact, when Beckett was directing ''Footfalls'' he was not only using me to play the notes but I almost felt that he did have the paintbrush out and was painting."<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/culture/1999/sep/01/artsfeatures2 Guardian article ''Plays for today'' 1 September 1999.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305214223/http://www.theguardian.com/culture/1999/sep/01/artsfeatures2 |date=5 March 2016 }}. Retrieved 31 March 2010</ref> "Sam knew that I would turn myself inside out to give him what he wanted", she explained. "With all of Sam's work, the scream was there, my task was to try to get it out." She stopped performing his plays in 1989 when he died.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/books/97/08/03/reviews/whohe.html ''The New York Times'' article : ''An Immediate Bonding With Beckett: An Actress's Memoirs'' 24 April 1996.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160322013330/http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/08/03/reviews/whohe.html |date=22 March 2016 }}. Retrieved 31 March 2010</ref>