Next month sees a three-session course on the plays of Samuel Beckett guided by Professor Patrick Bixby, president of the Samuel Beckett Society. The sessions, which will run over three days 17, 24 & 31 May, will examine three of the plays, Waiting for Godot, Endgame, and Happy Days aiming ‘to explore the limits of what the theater can do and how it can challenge us to reexamine the everyday world beyond its walls’. The course promises to investigate how the plays ‘confronted the absurdity of human existence, the deceptions of language, the ineffability of the universe, and the chaos of Beckett’s times’ by exploring ‘philosophical enigmas’ without straying too far from the visceral experience of inhabiting a body and contending with various forms of social and political coercion. ‘These plays’ the course asserts ‘continue to provoke questions about what the theater can do and challenge us to reexamine the everyday world beyond its walls’.
This is a live, virtual course hosted by Roundtable, which includes interactive opportunities and post-course recordings available for all course participants. The cost is $120.
The Samuel Beckett Society 