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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Following on from the highly acclaimed and hugely successful Laethanta Sona, the Irish language translation of Happy Days, which was performed on Inis Oírr, the Aran Islands in the Summer of 2023, Company SJ returns to the west of Ireland to perform Beckett in Irish this July. Directed once again by Sarah Jane Scaife, who…
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As part of this year’s annual conference Beckett’s Relationships to be held at the University of Edinburgh in June, a special advanced screening of the award-winning documentary Earl. has been organised to which attendees are invited. Directed by Ty Kim, the film details the remarkable story of internationally renowned composer Earl Kim who was born…
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Titled ‘Beckett in Babylon’ and billed as ‘an unprecedented three-day programme that shines a light on Samuel Beckett’s work in Germany’, a fascinating short festival will take place at the historic Babylon Kino in Berlin, presented by The Embassy of Ireland. A major highlight will include big-screen presentations of Beckett’s pioneering television plays created between…
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“Try Again. Fail Again. Fail Better.” Success in Publishing A reminder that this Friday sees the first seminar of 2025 from Samuel Beckett Early Career Scholars Initiative in the form of a webinar on publishing, titled ‘Try again. Fail again. Fail Better: Success in Publishing.’ The session will share ideas and hints on all aspects…
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To mark the milestone of fifty years of teaching and scholarship by its renowned Professor Enoch Brater, the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor is presenting a symposium in his honour. Professor Brater has been a leading figure in Beckett scholarship since the 1970s with publications including the influential Why Beckett? (1989) and The Drama in…
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A major exhibition on Samuel Beckett’s engagement with the medium of television is currently running at the Württembergischer Kunstverein in Stuttgart. Über Fernsehen, Beckett is a multimedia exhibition co-curated by Gerard Byrne and Judith Wilkinson. Inspired by Beckett’s direct engagement with the television channel Süddeutscher Rundfunk, the exhibition presents for the first time together all…
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A new piece of theatre based on the life and work of Samuel Beckett will play in Dublin this November. Titled The Beckett List, we are told that the show ‘chronicles the author’s journey from quiet beginnings in turn of the century Dublin to the publication of Waiting for Godot. Alongside key events from his…
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A special night of readings by established authors who have spent time as Creative Fellows in the Beckett Archives at the University of Reading and at Trinity College will take place in Dublin. To celebrate the recent publication of these pieces in the Dublin journal Tolka, authors Claire-Louise Bennett, Niamh Campbell, Nathan O’Donnell, and Simon…
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The Samuel Beckett Society 