2018/2019/2021

How It Is (Part 1)
By Samuel Beckett

Directed by Judy Hegarty Lovett
with
Conor Lovett, Stephen Dillane and Mel Mercier

Shadow Cast Millie Ahern, Shane Corcoran, Amber Deasy, Clare Denmead, Niall Holland, Pearse O'Donoghue, Rebecca O'Mahony

Sound Designer/Composer: Mel Mercier
Visual Designers Judy Hegarty Lovett and Kris Stone
Lighting Designer Kris Stone
Design Intern Laura Perrem
Production Manager: Aidan Wallace
Assistant Production Manager: Ed Harrington
Stage Manager. Sadhbh Barrett Coakley
Sound Engineer: Anthony Hanley
Chief LX Dónal McNinch
Sugarglass Team Sonia Haccius, Laura Perrem, Pauline Gibbons, Ned Kaar and Millie Doyle
Costume Co-ordinator: Valentina Gambardella
Videographer: Grant Gee
Production Photography Ros Kavanagh
Poster Photo Grant Gee
Graphic Design Rory McCormick
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Everyman Stage Crew Brian Mitchell, Barry Brosnan, Andrew Meany, Colin Hackett, Sean Spillane
Set Construction Nisei Kobayashi / Triangle Productions
Communications & PR: Christine Monk & Kearney Melia Barker Communications
Assistant Producer: Eimear Reilly
Producer Maura O’Keeffe

FOR EVERYMAN
Artistic Director Julie Kelleher
Executive Director Sean Kelly
Finance Manager Kaye Keating
Box Office & Building Manager Robbie Cotter
Line Producer Naomi Daly
Marketing Manager Maev O'Shea
Technical Manager Mark Donovan
Deputy Marketing Manager Ana Feria
Fundraising & Partnership Manager Anna Marie Coughlan Publicist/Press Kearney Melia Barker Communications

How It Is Part 2
(2019)

Directed and designed by Judy Hegarty Lovett 

with
Conor Lovett and Stephen Dillane

& The Irish Gamelan Orchestra
Mel Mercier (Founder/Conductor) Kelly Boyle (Assistant Director) Kevin McNally (Assistant Director), Conor Soltan, Sinéad Hanrahan, Fidelma Hanrahan, JJ Riordan, James McGlynn, Laila Jedir, Claudia Schwab, Eimear Hurley, Anna Dore-Prat, Muireann Levis , Leah Hearne
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Music composed by Mel Mercier with the Irish Gamelan Orchestra
Music performed by Mel Mercier, the Irish Gamelan Orchestra, Mark Padmore, Nick Roth and Claudia Schwab
Lighting design (Cork) by Mick Hurley
Lighting design (London) by Simon Bennison
Photography Ros Kavanagh
Videographer Grant Gee
Production Manager Conor Mullan
Everyman Production Manager Ian Brown
Stage Manager Aoife Clark
Graphic Design Chapterhouse
Souvenir poster design Rory McCormick
Publicity Kearney Melia Barker Communications
Producer Maura O’Keeffe

How It Is
(A Film of all three parts)

Dublin Theatre Festival 2021

Director and Designed by Judy Hegarty Lovett

Director of Photography: Louis Hegarty Lovett

Actor: Conor Lovett

Actor: Stephen Dillane

Lighting Design: Simon Bennison 

Music Composition and Sound Design: Mel Mercier with the Irish Gamelan Orchestra and MÓNCKK.

Music Performed by Mel Mercier, Irish Gamelan Orchestra, MÓNCKK, Nick Roth, Claudia Schwab and Mark Padmore.

MÓNCKK : Mel Mercier, Óscar Mascarenas, Nick Roth, Claudia Schwab, Kelly Boyle, Kevin McNally.

Irish Gamelan Orchestra: Mel Mercier, Kelly Boyle, Kevin McNally, Conor Soltan, Sinead Hanrahan, Fidelma Hanrahan, JJ Riordan, James McGlynn, Laila Jedir, Eimear Hurley, Muireann Levis, Leah Hearne, Eimear O' Donovan & Anna Dore

Shadow Cast: Millie Ahern, Shane Corcoran, Imogen Deasy, Pearse Donoghue, Niall Holland, Sean Keating, Una O’Brien.

Edited by Zen Grisdale & Louis Hegarty Lovett

First AD : Viko Nikci

Stage Manager: Sadhbh Barrett Coakley

Line Producer: Hugh Farrell

Filming: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Mixed by: Crispin Woodhead

Crane Camera: Zen Grisdale

Camera Operators : Sophie Adams, Edward Shaw, Kelly Jehanno, John Dunlea, Seamus Hegarty

Sound Engineers: Paul Ashe Browne & Tyler Kieffer

Boom Operator : Colm Hinchion

Chief LX: Hanan Sheedy

Film Consultant: Grant Gee

Assistant Stage Manager: Aoife Byrne

Production Assistant/Covid Officer: Lux Hegarty Lovett

Technicians (for Everyman) : Seamus Hegarty(Head of AV) , Sean Spillane, Joe Cusack, Alison White, Paul Linehan Lucas…

Special Effects Propmaker: Sonia Haccius

Assistant Special Effects Propmaker: Janneke Sparrius

Souvenir Poster Design: Rory Mc Cormack

Stills Photography : Ros Kavanagh, Clare Keogh, Grant Gee

Samuel Beckett's last full-length novel How It Is is one of his least known works.  The three-part novel is presented in short unpunctuated paragraphs and appears to tell the story of a lone figure in a landscape of mud and darkness who drags with him a sack of tins and a tin-opener repeating, as he journeys, the words of a voice he hears inside and outside his own head.  He encounters a fellow traveller, Pim, and a bizarre relationship ensues followed by Pim's eventual escape.  In a compelling innovation of form that pushes language to its limits, Beckett has created a work that is as evocative and emotionally charged as it is perplexing.  



Winner: Best Soundscape (Mel Mercier)

Winner: Best Lighting Design (Kris Stone)

Nomination Best Supporting Actor (Stephen Dillane)

Nomination Best Production - Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards 2018.

Nomination Best Sound Design - Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards 2019.

'A flawless conjunction of acting and staging - 5 Stars'  
The Irish Times

‘Expertly directed by Judy Hegarty Lovett. Gare St Lazare and their collaborators deserve to be congratulated, and cherished, for their uncompromising artistic vision and continued championing of Beckett’s work — as does the Everyman for facilitating this ambitious staging.- 5 Stars’
The Irish Examiner

‘imaginative, radical, rigorous, and uncompromising’
The Beckett Circle

Photo: Clare Keogh