Samuel Beckett’s towering novels Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable cycle between comic storytelling by a philosophical vagrant, an elderly man lost to memory and fantasy, and a paralyzed protagonist. In this evening-length theatrical rendition featuring excerpts from these novels, preeminent Beckett interpreters Conor Lovett and Judy Hegarty Lovett offer an embodiment of this existential trinity in a profound solo performance exploring the precision of language and Beckett’s remarkably uplifting worldview.
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The Festivals Project: Beckett, Ireland and the Biographical Festival
The MAC Belfast • 21-22 June, 2017
Read MoreBeckett Research Seminar, 2017
University of Reading • 20 May 2017
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The Endgame Project
The first public screening of a new documentary film
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Meet the New President of the Samuel Beckett Society
Daniela Caselli shares her fascination with Beckett’s writing, and what she sees as the next step for the Society
Read MoreCFP: Samuel Beckett’s Correspondence: Theories and Methods
MLA Call for Papers
Read MoreSamuel Beckett and the End of Literature
University of Reading
Read Morebeckett@111: International Festival
The Festival will open on March 4th 2017, 111 years after the Irish poet’s birthday on 13th April 1906
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Call for Papers: Samuel Beckett Working Group
Universidade de São Paulo • 10-14 July, 2017 The Samuel Beckett Working Group will be meeting at the FIRT/IFTR International Federation for Theatre Research Annual Conference Papers to be presented at the Working Group are distributed and read by all the participants ahead of the meeting. At the Working Group sessions presenters give short résumés of their…
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Alan Mandell Will Finish His Stage Career the Way He Started It: with a Performance of Endgame
The 88-year-old actor first acted in Samuel Beckett’s play nearly 50 years ago—and Beckett watched him do it “It is hard work,” actor/director Alan Mandell says of performing on stage. “I’ve told someone who asked me about learning lines that it was easier when I was 85.” Yet here he goes once more onto the…
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The Samuel Beckett Society 