Dance First

2LE’s first feature film, Dance First is the first ever biopic of Irish playwright Samuel Beckett, written by Neil Forsyth (Guilt, The Gold), directed by James Marsh (The Theory Of Everything, Man On Wire) and starring Gabriel Byrne and Fionn O’Shea as Samuel Beckett. Beckett lived a life of many parts: Parisian bon vivant, World War II Resistance fighter, Nobel Prize-winning playwright, philandering husband and recluse. But despite all the adulation that came his way he was a man acutely aware of his own failings. In 1969, having been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, an embarrassed Beckett simply wanted to be rid of it. This film revolves around this turning point, the internal debate raging within Beckett as to which of the people in his life most deserve to be the beneficiaries of his shame.