Not I (2000)

This unique film… directed by Neil Jordan and featuring the American actress Julianne Moore, is based on Samuel Beckett's play Not I, 1972.  Not I presents an actress seated on a stage with just her mouth visible. The mouth then delivers a long monologue, a constant stream of consciousness.

Not I is part of a unique and ambitious project, Beckett on Film, the brain-child of Michael Colgan, Director of the Gate Theatre, in which each of Becketts’s 19 plays were committed to film in 2000-2001. Each had a different film director, charged with adapting the demands of Beckett’s plays to film while adhering to his exacting stage directions. The project was donated to the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) in 2001 and displayed in exhibition at the museum from 08 Aug 2012–09 Sep 2012.

Director

  • Writers

    • Samuel Beckett

  • Stars

    • Julianne Moore