“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 attraction of high-profile actors to the work of Samuel Beckett continues unabated with the announcement that award-winning English screen actor Gary Oldman is to play the title role in Krapp’s Last Tape at the York Theatre Royal next year. Oldman’s CV consists of a long and diverse list of screen appearances, from his Oscar-winning…
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El 31 de octubre se llevará a cabo en la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidadde Buenos Aires una mesa redonda para celebrar los 70 años de la primera traducciónde Esperando a Godot al español realizada en Buenos Aires por Pablo Palant ypublicada en la editorial Poseidón. Participarán de la mesa redonda Rubén…
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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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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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The Samuel Beckett Society 