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Bettina Jonic will be performing 'Happy Days' for one night only in the George Wood Theatre before talking about her friendship with Samuel Beckett.
Hosted by the Department of English and Comparative Literature and the Department of Drama, in association with the Pinter Centre for Performance and Creative Writing, we are delighted to announce that Bettina Jonic will be performing 'Happy Days' for one night only in the George Wood Theatre.
This will be followed by an informal interview with Dr Derval Tubridy, in which Bettina will talk about her friendship with Samuel Beckett.
Bettina Jonic studied ballet for 10 years in California with Theodore Kosloff and Bronislava Nijenska, and music and singing at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Vienna's Academy of Music and the Paris Conservatory of Music. She made her singing debut at the Festival d'Aix en Provence, and then worked in various international opera houses, specialising in the work of Mozart and Richard Strauss, and festivals in Edinburgh, Holland, Adelaide and Paris.
Bettina extended her singing career through the works of Bertolt Brecht becoming the doyenne of a new generation of Brechtian interpreters. Her developmental work includes her own Actors Work Group in London, and collaborations with Peter Brook in Lisbon and Paris, the latter being a production of The Tragedy of Carmen in the 1981-82 season at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord. She created Actor/Singer Development at the Royal Opera House in 1980, and under the aegis of the ROH, founded "The Little Garden" in 1985, to further accommodate this work.
This led to the establishment of an International Actor/Singer Performance Research Centre in 1988. Performances included Macbeth (with Monstrous Regiment at the Donmar), Othello/Otello, and Ghost Games with Lulu (ROH). Bettina Jonic has written the text for various music/theatre pieces including Lorca (Edinburgh Festival), The Wheel (Camden Festival) and The Ladies (The Little Garden production at the Artaud Theatre).
Original works created for herself include: Brecht and His Composers, Marie Antoinette meets Eleanor Rigby, The Bitter Mirror (a one-woman show uniting the work of Bertolt Brecht and Bob Dylan), Denim Blues, Anna of the Seven Deadly Sins, A French Love Affair, Journey into Exile.
She has had 2 poetry collections published, Briefs (Covent Garden Press) and Déjà Vu (Arfuyen Press, Paris). She is in the final stages of writing With and Without Sam: Volumes One and Two, which draws on the letters she received from Beckett, now housed in the archives at Trinity College Dublin.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 20 Jan 2010 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm |
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