The town of Ashland in Oregon, currently best known for its annual Shakespeare festival, will host a season of Beckett works this month. From October 24-27, each night at 7pm, an exploration of Beckett’s experimental theatre will take over the downtown area. The entire festival takes place in non-traditional theatre spaces, and rain or shine,…
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Final rehearsals are underway in Los Angeles for a major production of Waiting for Godot which will open in November. A fascinating production witnesses a collaboration between the Geffen Playhouse and world-renowned Beckett interpreters Gare St Lazare Ireland – fresh from their Dublin Theatre Festival success with Shades Through a Shade. The cast includes Lincoln…
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A reminder to those who have yet to register that the annual Beckett International Foundation Research Seminar will take place on Saturday 26 October at the University of Reading. The organisers ask that all those interested register by following this link as soon as possible and no later than Friday 18 October. The programme is…
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The Call for Papers has just been made for the Samuel Beckett Working Group which forms part of the annual conference of the International Foundation for Theatre Research to be held in 2025 in Cologne, Germany from 9-13 June. Aligning with the overall conference theme, the seminar’s chosen title is Greying the Carnival: Samuel Beckett…
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The “Samuel Beckett” Series in La Revue des Lettres modernes, (Lettres modernes–Minard, Paris) has just published two new volumes, devoted to Comment c’est / How It Is. ‘Comment c’est’/’How It Is’: ‘‘ce monde si peu possible’ is a collection of essays in French relating to the novel featuring contributions a range of contemporary scholars edited by Llewellyn Brown.…
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Folowing a hugely successful screening and discussion of the documentary film Earl. at Beckett and Justice, this year’s Samuel Beckett Society’s annual conference in Cal State Los Angeles in June, the movie’s director Ty Kim has shared an invite for all to attend a screening at New York City’s Carnegie Hall on October 1. Telling…
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This Friday, 20 September, sees the first in a series of interdisciplinary seminars which will explore ‘grey temporalities’ in Beckett’s work. The online seminar will include contributions from a list of notable speakers. Organised by Eleanor Green and Swati Joshi, the event is supported by the Samuel Beckett Society. Those who wish to attend can…
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Leading Beckett interpreters and innovators Gare St Lazare Ireland are premiering a new show at this year’s Dublin Theatre Festival. Directed by Judy Hegarty Lovett the piece is described as a ‘new exploration of Beckett and Dante in a show that seeks to combine literary embraces and repulsions of divine intervention and what it might…
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Katherine Weiss, organiser of the hugely valuable Samuel Beckett Early Career Scholars Initiative has asked us to remind all of the two seminars scheduled for the coming semester. The initiative, which was established to share information and create a network of support to all Beckett scholars in the early stages of their research and career,…
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London Sinfonietta have announced a fascinating night of music and movement at the Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall on Friday Novemeber 29. Combining Beckett’s short works Quad I & II and American composer Morton Feldman’s For Samuel Beckett, the programme promises much for enthusiasts. Full details and booking are available here. As the production’s publicity…
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The Samuel Beckett Society 