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.


Fionn O'Shea
Young Samuel

Maxine Peake
Barbara

Bronagh Gallagher
Nora Barnacle

Lisa Dwyer Hogg
May Beckett

Caroline Boulton
Sylvia Beach