A significant publication in the field of Beckett Studies in Spanish comes from Atuel Ediciones in Buenos Aires. El Monólogo Mudo: En torno a la obra de Samuel Beckett is a major new work by Beckett Society board member Lucas Margarit which offers a wide-ranging, eminently readable and intellectually satisfying, this book will attract new…
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The latest title in the Elements in Beckett Studies series has just been published and is available to download here free of charge for a limited period. Beckett and Stein by Georgina Nugent offers ‘the first extended comparative study of Gertrude Stein’s role in the development of Beckett’s aesthetics. In doing so it redresses the…
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Issue 19 of Beckettiana (2022) is available now to download here. Beckettiana is the only wholly Spanish-language journal devoted to Beckett Studies and is co-edited in Buenos Aires Argentina by Lucas Margarit, María Inés Castagnino and Marcelo Lara. The current issue is a particularly rich one as it celebrates 30 years since the title’s initiantion.…
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The latest seminars in the online series Beckett and Japan will take place in the coming weeks. On Saturday 13 May, Seminar 4 features Euske Oiwa addressing the theme ‘Facing the Time: Beckett’s Theatricality and Installation Art’, and Kumiko Kiuchi of the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan reviewing ‘Thirty Years: Reception of Samuel Beckett’s prose…
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Volume 44 Issue 1 of the Beckett Circle, the publication of the Samuel Beckett Society, is now live and available to all Society members here. A packed issue contains a fascianting long-read as Katherine Weiss discusses the process undertaken by well-known television and stage actor Monica Horan and director Rob Weiner as they developed a…
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The next session in the London Beckett Seminar will take place on Friday April 28 at 18:00 BST. This month’s guest lecturer is Professor Ulrika Maude of the University of Bristol. Her lecture title is ‘Beckett’s Obscene Body of Poetry and Other Precipitates’ and addresses the following abstract:The Published in 1935, Beckett’s first collection of…
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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…
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Nearly two years ago, Monica Horan, an American actor famous for her role as Amy in sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, and Rob Weiner, former associate director at Chinati Foundation, submerged themselves in Happy Days. Weiner directed Horan (Winnie) and Tim Durkin (Willie) in a process of discovery – their rehearsals – over Zoom and then…
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Watch trailer here. The highly acclaimed production of Endgame at the Irish Repertory Theatre in New York, directed by Ciarán O’Reilly, and starring Bill Irwin (Clov), John Douglas Thompson (Hamm), Joe Grifasi (Nagg) and Patrice Johnson Chevannes (Nell) has been playing to packed houses since its opening. As it draws to a close this weekend,…
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In conjunction with the forthcoming Samuel Beckett in Central Europe conference to be held in Charles University, Prague on 20-21 April 2023, the organisers have launched an open call for papers on the subject for a special issue of Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui.Submissions do not have to have been included in the conference programme to be…
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