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Night and Dreams (1983)
Directed by Samuel Beckett
Drama · 11m
Nacht und Träume (Night and Dreams) is the last television play written and directed by Samuel Beckett and broadcast on 19th May 1983. It is a wordless play, the only sound that of a male voice humming, then singing, from the last seven bars of Schubert’s lied Nacht und Träume, words by Matthäus Casimir von Collin: "Holde Träume, kehret wieder!" ("Sweet dreams, come back"). Schubert was a composer much loved by Beckett – "the composer who spoke most to him…whom he considered a friend in suffering" (Wiki) Beckett lists five elements that make up the play: evening light, the dreamer (A), his dreamt self (B), a pair of dreamt hands and the last seven bars of Schubert’s lied.
Cast
Crew
- Director
- Samuel Beckett
- Writer
- Samuel Beckett
Details
- Original title
- Nacht und Träume
- Release date
- 1983-05-19
- Runtime
- 11m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- No Language
- Countries
- Germany
- Production
- Süddeutscher Rundfunk