A fascinating new recording has just been released by German label ECM. Stirrings Still comprises a recitation of Beckett’s late prose piece, read by Paul Griffiths, with an original score created by composer Trevor Bača and perfromed by the JACK Quartet. The score, we are told, ‘is no accompaniment but rather a parallel stream, heard…
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The Samuel Beckett Working Group has just announced its call for papers at next year’s International Federation for Theatre Research annual conference which will take place at the University of the Peloponnese in Nafplion, Greece. The overall theme of the conference is ‘Hybridity’ while the Beckett Working Group has titled its contribution as ‘Hybrid Beckettian…
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To coincide with the highly-anticipated publication of Samuel Beckett’s German Diaries this week, Beckett scholar Vanesa Cotroneo is organising an on-line international reading group to study, unpick, and share information and views on the new material. The reading group will convene online, from 25 September 2026 to 2 April 2027, every Friday evening (with the…
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Over the past couple of years, the city of Los Angeles has become a fertile ground for all things Beckett. The latest addition to the growing list of events and performances takes place in September in the form of a newly devised piece based on Company and which has been developed over a number of…
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The Kilkenny Arts Festival presents another landmark in Gare St Lazare Ireland’s engagement with Samuel Beckett. The Last Tape is Romanian composer Marcel Mihalovici’s operatic collaboration with the Irish author. This production offers a rare opportunity to encounter one of Beckett’s few opera collaborations for its Irish premiere in a new hybrid version melding the opera and the original play.…
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The long-awaited publication of Beckett’s German Diaries is scheduled for 20 August. The German Diaries represent the last significant unpublished writings by Beckett. They provide insights into the evolution of Beckett’s aesthetics in his critical confrontation with literature and visual art. But also into the motivations behind his decision to embark upon this trip. They…
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Radio France has dropped a five-part podcast in its France Culture series on the life and work of Samuel Beckett. The French language series, titled Avoir Raison avec Samuel Beckett is presented by Arnaud Laporte and contains a vast array of interviews with authors, actors and academics covering the broad range of the writer’s oeuvre…
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An event which organisers describe as ‘an afternoon of lectures and performances exploring Samuel Beckett’s lifelong engagement with the visual arts’ will take place on Saturday 29 August at the Bel Ami Gallery in Los Angeles. Drawing on David Lloyd’s account of painting as Beckett’s ‘thing,’ this symposium asks how language and aesthetics relate throughout…
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A reminder that the latest in the Samuel Beckett Early Career Scholars Initiative will take place this Tuesday 11 August. Titled “Getting known: Publishing in Beckett Studies”, the session will share ideas on aspects of getting published in the discipline. An attractive list of experience speakers will include: Dr. Amanda Dennis (The American University of Paris),…
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The death has taken place of leading Beckett scholar Charles Krance on 28 July last at his home in Ruisse, France. A pioneer in the area of genetic scholarship in Beckett Studies, he taught at the University of Chicago from 1969 to 1994, specialising in twentieth-century French Literature (and in particular Louis-Ferdinand Céline and Beckett),…
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The Samuel Beckett Society 