Beat the Devil in Grangebeg
'Beat the Devil', written and performed by Glen Williamson, will be presented next Monday night, 30 September, in the Colmcille Hall at Grangebeg Camphill near Dunlavin.
Curtain up at 7.30pm, admission €10 and there are refreshments available.
'Faust' is one of many stories based on a classic German legend where the protagonist makes a bargain with the Devil, selling his soul for supernatural powers.
Glen Williamson wrote this 90-minute solo version as a tribute to Goethe on the 250th anniversary of the writer's birth in 1999 and it was first produced in New York in that year.
He recalls his first exposure to the original play working as a stagehand with the German version when an exchange student in Switzerland 1981. "It has been a companion ever since," he says.
A founding member in New York City of The Actors’ Ensemble and New Directions Theater, he appeared in numerous productions with both companies. He trained in the Michael Chekhov acting technique and at The Juilliard School and has acted with the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco and the American Stage Festival in New Hampshire.
