Godot is coming! !גאָדאָ קומט 20 September – 13 OctoberFridays and Saturdays at 7:30 PMSundays at 2 PM Yiddish brings into Beckett’s text a special historical and cultural poignancy, that of the homeless survivor whose only home is his language and his culture; a language and culture in which tears of laughter and tears of…
Read MoreWaiting for Godot: Dublin Theatre Festival 2013
Gaiety Theatre · 2 October – 6 October From Dublin Theatre Festival 2013: ‘…at this place, at this moment in time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not.’ On a country road towards the end of day two friends wait for a man named Godot to arrive. Their comical efforts to pass…
Read MoreLisa Dwan to perform Not I/Footfalls/Rockaby (2014)
Royal Court Theatre · 9-18 January 2014 From Royal Court Theatre (thanks to Julia Séguier for the link): Lisa Dwan returns to the Royal Court Theatre to perform a one-woman Samuel Beckett trilogy after a critically acclaimed sell-out run of his landmark one–woman piece Not I, performed at the Royal Court forty years after the…
Read MoreMurphy Manuscript Acquired at Auction
One of the greatest literary manuscripts of the 20th century acquired by the Beckett International Foundation A page from Samuel Beckett’s Murphy notebooks From the University of Reading: The University of Reading is delighted to announce that it has acquired the working manuscript of Samuel Beckett’s first major work, Murphy, at the cost of £962,500,…
Read MoreLondon Beckett Seminar: 27 June 2013
27 June 2013, 2pm-5pm · Birkbeck College, London Design: Rhys Tranter. Photograph: Getty Images. Beckett Studies: Tracing the GrainLondon Beckett SeminarBirkbeck, University of London Thursday 27 June, 2013 2–5pm, B04, Birkbeck College43 Gordon Square, London. WC1H 0PD Despite its frequent alignment with an aesthetic of ‘lessness’, Samuel Beckett’s work has remained insistently, even hyperactively, productive…
Read MoreSamuel Beckett In Our Time
Calder Bookshop, London · 31 May, 7pm From the Calder Bookshop and Theatre: ‘”Samuel Beckett in Our Time” looks both on the restrictions imposed on current productions of Beckett’s theatre and the ways in which contemporary directors push the limits of what might be called “authentic Beckett” to produce a Beckett for the 21st century,…
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