Dance First

Name: Dance First
Cast: Gabriel Byrne, Aidan Gillen, Sandrine Bonnaire, Fionn O'Shea, Maxine Peake

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Parisian bon vivant, World War II Resistance fighter, Nobel Prize-winning playwright, philandering husband and recluse…Samuel Beckett lived a life of many parts. Titled after Beckett’s famous ethos “Dance first, think later”, the film is a sweeping account of the life of this 20th-century icon.

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Cast & Crew

Director: James MarshWriter: Neil ForsythProducers: Fabien Westerhoff, Michael Livingstone, Paul Ashton, Tom Thostrup, Viktória Petrányi

Gabriel Byrne

as Samuel Beckett

Aidan Gillen

as James Joyce

Sandrine Bonnaire

as Suzanne

Fionn O'Shea

as Young Samuel

Maxine Peake

as Barbara

Bronagh Gallagher

as Nora Barnacle

Lisa Dwyer Hogg

as May Beckett

Caroline Boulton

as Sylvia Beach

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