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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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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Festival Beckett which takes place in Roussillon en Provence each year has just announced its programme for 2024. This year’s event will be the 24th iteration and will run from 15-20 July in the town in which Beckett and Suzanne saw out the end of the Second World War. Performance highlights in this year’s programme…
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Among the many high points of the recent Samuel Beckett Society conference Beckett & Justice at Cal State LA was the engagement with Thai artist Saun Santipreecha whose current exhibition …These Things That Divide The World In Two…. at REISIG AND TAYLOR CONTEMPORARY. The show is a response by the artist to his reading of…
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This Summer sees a festival and celebration of Beckett crossing transnational boundaries, as Beckett: Unbound 2024 takes place in Liverpool and Paris. The brainchild of actor Adrian Dunbar and composer Nick Roth, the festival builds on the success of Beckett: Confined 2022, once again partnering with The University of Liverpool’s Institute of Irish Studies and The…
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As part of the 30th Anniversary celebrations of the Samuel Beckett Theatre, Trinity College Dublin, the venue is playing host to a photographic exhibition detailing the remarkable Irish language productions of Happy Days (Laethanta Sona) presented by Company SJ on Inis Oírr, Aran Islands and in the Samuel Beckett Theatre at Trinity College in 2021.…
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As part of the well-established series of seminars designed to support and promote Beckett scholars in the early stages of their career, an open session titled : “… if I ever stop talking it will be because there is nothing more to be said …” will take place on May 2, 2024 @ 11AM-12PM PST.…
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The Samuel Beckett Early Career Scholars Initiative has announced details of its latest online seminar. Titled ‘Try again. Fail again. Fail Better: Success in Publishing’, the session will share ideas on all aspects of getting published in the discipline. The event will include contributions from the Initiative’s co-organiser Julie Bates of Trinity College Dublin, as…
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The next session of the London Beckett Seminar sees Society president, Prof Patrick Bixby (Arizona State University), deliver a paper titled Beckett, Lefebvre and the Everyday. This online session will take place at 18:00 GMT on Friday 23 February and is provided free of charge but registration is essential through this link. The abstract which…
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Celebration of Ireland’s patron saint might frequently be characterised merely as a mass assault on communal sobriety, yet it also serves as moment to celebrate Irish culture in general throughout the world. Indeed it is frequently a day of renewal, as witnessed in Watt for example, where the narrator tells us that the sheets in…
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