THE Gate is flying high on the news that its Beckett Festival, which ran at the Lincoln Centre in New York last July, is number two in Time magazine's "Best Of 1996" theatre list: "No event this year had more artistic vitality than the New York City staging of 19 Beckett works - from the 40-second Breath to the tour-de-force Happy Days, with the great Rosaleen Linehan buried up to her wit's end in sand and self-delusion." Sadly however, this wonderful accolade is not in the European edition, only in the American one.