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The Creative Foundation is an arts charity, which has spent 15 years using creative activity to make Folkestone a better place to live, work, play, study and visit. By mobilising the incredible artistic resources already in the town and working hand in hand with the community, our partners and stakeholders, we have established 5 main projects: the Creative Quarter, Quarterhouse, Triennial, Book Festival and Folkestone Artworks, through which we are transforming the town and surrounding area.
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Beckett in Folkestone, shot in 360° format (shorten version) - a film by Manuel Vason
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This film is a specially commissioned version of its one hour long original, offering a unique opportunity to experience Beckett in Folkestone. Through this film, you will walk in the footsteps of a mysterious performer personifying both a member of the public and Beckett himself. The original film was premiered at Creative Folkestone Quarterhouse in June 2021 as part of Folkestone Book Festival.
In March 1961 the author of Waiting for Godot (1955), Samuel Beckett (aged 54), mysteriously booked a room for two weeks at the Hotel Bristol on the Upper Leas in Folkestone under his middle name, Mr. Barclay. Beckett was keen that his Folkestone marriage to his long time partner Suzanne Dechevaux-Dumesnil remain a secret and so during his stay he was deliberately stealthy for fear of being recognised.
To mark the 60th anniversary year of Beckett’s wedding in all its intrigue, Folkestone Book Festival commissioned an indoor-outdoor promenade event which audience members experienced one at a time. This included three short fictional monologues specially written by acclaimed writers, Helen Oyeyemi, Rupert Thomson and Eimear McBride in which they portray three Folkestone residents who observed Beckett during his stay - a receptionist at the Hotel Bristol, a local stringer for the Daily Express newspaper, and a witness, possibly invited off the street, to the wedding at Folkestone Registry Office.
Initially commissioned as documentation of the promenade performance the Beckett in Folkestone film, shot entirely on 360° format, now has a life ofits own as an innovative and experimental film.
The film was funded by CUPIDO, a project supported through the Interreg North Sea Region Programme which is part of the European Regional Development Fund.