‘Beckett has been waiting for Kurtág all this time,’ wrote The New Yorker after the triumphant La Scala premiere of György Kurtág’s Endgame (Fin de partie) in 2018. Subsequently named one of the greatest operas of the century by The Guardian, Kurtág’s ‘unforgettable’ adaption of Samuel Beckett’s play has its highly anticipated UK premiere. The…
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The 23rd edition of the Festival Beckett will take place in Roussillon en Provence from the 15-20 July. Held in the town in which Beckett and Suzanne saw out the last of World War II, this year’s festival offers a combination of theatrical performances, lectures and conversation in convivial and resonant surroundings. The highlights of…
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A new play by Philip Landon receives a reading at London’s The Space on July 23. Midnight Tattoos details the events as ‘rebel Suzie and bookworm Michael meet on the plane from JFK to Paris. Together, they explore Samuel Beckett’s favourite haunts and solve the riddle of Waiting for Godot‘. Taking part are David Mildon, Jeannie…
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The latest issue of the Journal of Becket Studies is now available. A special issue, guest-edited by Georgina Nugent, it seeks to add to what it describes as the ‘increasingly insistent reassessment of the role of women within and without of Beckett’s œuvre, a movement spearheaded by Linda Ben-Zvi and Mary Bryden’s ground-breaking respective studies Women in Beckett:…
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The Samuel Beckett Society is delighted to announce an essay competition for 2024 aimed solely at incarcerated persons in prisons and correctional institutions. Organised by Dr Katherine Weiss of California State University, Los Angeles, to coincide with 2024’s Samuel Beckett Society Annual Conference Beckett and Justice, the competition is inviting essay responses and creative responses…
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A new initiative to help early career scholars in the worldwide Beckett Studies community is being launched by the respected scholars Julie Bates (Trinity College Dublin) and Katherine Weiss (California State LA] in which they seek to create a network of support for the particular cohort. In an address to all relevant parties they write:…
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For three nights only, Birmingham Rep will host Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days with BAFTA winner Siobhán McSweeney (Derry Girls, The Great Pottery Throw Down) in the role of Winnie, directed by Caitríona McLaughlin, Artistic Director of The Abbey Theatre, Dublin, Ireland’s National Theatre. This will be the production’s only outing in the United Kingdom on its current run. Brimingham…
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The Journal of Beckett Studies has been the journal of record for the established and expanding field of Beckett studies for forty years. Founded by Beckett’s biographer James Knowlson and well-known Beckett critic John Pilling in 1976, the journal covers topics such as corporeality, disability, politics, psychology, aesthetics, gender, translations, modernism and more. The publishers of the…
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A weekend residential course on the plays of Samuel Beckett takes place at Madingley Hall, home of the University of Cambridge Institiute of Continuing Education. The course, which is directed by Dr Andy Wimbush, will explore how Beckett’s strange but often very funny plays, including Godot, Endgame, and Happy Days, can speak to us today about love, friendship,…
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Beckett’s work has inspired many contemporary visual artists, but in recent years it has been the area of artists’ film that has seen the clearest impact. On Friday 23rd of June 2023 The Samuel Beckett Research Centre at the University of Reading will present rarely screened work by several artists, including Vidéo by Stan Douglas (above right) and O…
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