Peter O'Shaughnessy developed considerably. In September 1957, he staged the first Australian production of Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" at the Arrow Theatre in Melbourne with himself as Vladimir and Humphries as Estragon. It proved a hit with both audiences and critics. The critic of the Melbourne "Sun" wrote "so engrossing and well-done is this extraordinary adventure by Samuel Beckett regimented by Peter O'Shaughnessy's tender care that for me the evening passed by on wings". Later in the same year, O'Shaughnessy planned a production of George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion" for December, in tandem with a children's play to be performed at matinees.
Frances Beckett his artistic sensibilities. The Sinclairs' business interests suffered under the Nazi persecution of the Jews in Germany and they returned to Ireland. Cissie Beckett found family life encroached on her artistic activities and she was further restricted in her work by arthritis towards the end of her life. Frances Beckett Frances Beckett (1880-1951), Irish artist, was the paternal aunt of Nobel laureate Samuel Beckett. Her father was William Beckett and her brother William, one of four brothers, was Samuel Beckett's father. Beckett studied art at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art and in Paris at Colarossi's studio, where she went