Plays for theatre and television by Samuel Beckett Working several times on the texts of Samuel Beckett, Madeleine Louarn has concentrated on the way he treated language, into which he bored “holes, one after the other, until what was lurking behind began to seep through”, as he wrote. He mistrusted words, however minimal, to the point of taking what words no longer knew to bring him into the silence of virtual images. Madeleine Louarn has sought what could best evoke and make felt this annihilation of forces and words. She found a television play in two parts that is virtually unknown: "Quad 1" and "2", shown in parallel with "Quoi où", on the same theme of walking, followed by " L’Impromptu d’Ohio", in which Beckett imagines his wife dead, and "Catastrophe" dedicated to Vaclav Havel, who was at the time a political prisoner. Then "Que nuages", a telefilm from 1976, in which, like a cloud disperses, the face of a woman appears and disappears. A work on the drying up of speech as of space, and which is based on the essay by Gilles Deleuze, "L’Épuisement", defined as “ the invalidation of all possibles”, when nothing is left but the wonder of pure poetry.