The publication has been announced by Bloomsbury of the monograph Staging Beckett in London. Authored by Matthew McFrederick, Lecturer in Theatre at the University of Reading and Co-Director of the Beckett International Foundation, it completes the Staging Beckett series which also includes …in Great Britain, and …in Ireland and Northern Ireland which were edited by…
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Following the highly succesful Beckett’s Relations conference at the University of Edinburgh, and to coincide with the launch of the Society’s publication The Beckett Review, recently-elected president, Liz Barry, marked the occasion with her first public address. Detailing the work of the Society over the past year and outlining the programme of events which it…
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The latest edition of Beckettiana, the Spanish language publication devoted to the author’s work and edited in Buenos Aires, is now available to download. Volume 21, co-edited by Lucas Margarit, María Inés Castagnino and Marcelo Lara, contains an impressive collection of artciles and reviews from a varied list of scholars including Patrick Bixby, Everett Frost, Manuel…
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We have had a request from our colleagues at the Edward Albee Society which we are pleased to pass on in the spirit of scholarly fraternity and as part of promoting international participation in literary endeavours. Dear Beckettians, I am writing you in my capacity as the President of The Edward Albee Society. While we…
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Today sees the exciting launch of the new official publication of the Samuel Beckett Society, The Beckett Review. Continuing the excellent work of its predecessor The Beckett Circle, it will combine its traditional varied collection of book and performance reviews with contributions from Beckettians across the world, interviews with practitioners and authors, and longread articles…
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This September sees the opening of an exhibition, lecture series and public performances marking Samuel Beckett’s long-standing and important engagement with Germany, the German language and German culture. The event takes its title ‘The German Room’ from the early story ‘Dante and the Lobster’, where – after describing the location of the “French room” in…
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Bloomsbury have just announced the publication of Not Beckett: The Plays, collecting the five pieces which constituted the extraordinary project that ran for the past two years. Encompassing performances in six different locations across the United Kingdom, Ireland and the United States, Not Beckett had as its stated aim ‘to further explore the artistic influence…
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The 25th annual celebration of Samuel Beckett in Roussillon, the town where he spent so much of his time during the war and which had such an impact on his work, takes place from 26-30 July. The festival comprises an expanded and promising programme of performance and lectures from leading international interpreters of his work,…
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An announcement reaches us from Cambridge University Press of a significant new work of scholarship by Ulrika Maude of the University of Bristol. Titled Samuel Beckett and Medicine, the new work offers ‘the first sustained analysis of the Beckett’s abiding interest in medicine and medical discourses, advancing insights into the representation of illness, neurodiversity, disability,…
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A new publication from S.E. Gontarski has been announced by Edinburgh University Press in their Other Becketts series. Titled Beckett’s Co-authors the work, we are told, ‘takes a fresh look at Samuel Beckett and the business of authorship, especially his involvement in the complicated machinery of commercial theatre. Focusing particularly on Beckett’s first professionally produced play, Waiting…
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