Billie Whitelaw on Samuel Beckett

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Billie Whitelaw was Samuel Beckett’s favorite actress and appeared in his plays for over twenty years.  She tells Steve Paulson she never understood the plays but thinks Beckett’s a genius. And she describes some of the bizarre physical challenges the roles posed: in “Not I” she was strapped to a chair with only her mouth lit while she delivered a sixteen minute speech as fast as she could.  And we hear some examples.