The 2024 Modern Language Association convention will be held in Philadelphia later this week. The Samuel Beckett Society’s panel is scheduled for 8:30 am on Saturday 6 January, 2024 at the Marriot Grand Hotel. What promises to be a hugely rich session session will be chaired by president Patrick Bixby and is titled Beckett, Aesthetics,…
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On the 20th anniversary of her death, an exhibition of new work draws on the archive of celebrated theatre designer and Beckett collaborator Jocelyn Herbert. The show, titled ‘whole body like gone’, is the work of artist Hannah Clarkson which uses archival images, sketches, and anecdotes from the Jocelyn Herbert Collection, combining them with new…
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An online workshop aimed at researchers who are currently in the process of writing their dissertations has been organized by the Samuel Beckett Early Career Scholars Initiative. Appropriatey titled “Finished, it’s finished, nearly finished, it must be nearly finished” and described as a ‘welcoming workshop’, the event will be led by Hannah Simpson, who received…
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A new production of Waiting for Godot from Catastrophic Theater opens at MIDTOWN ARTS & THEATER CENTER HOUSTON, Texas on 29 September and will play until 14 October. This will be the eighth production of a Beckett play by Catastrophic or its forerunner Infernal Bridegroom Productions (IBP) which has seen the companies emerge as the…
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The long-standing and ongoing project The Letters of Samuel Beckett at Emory University, which oversaw the publication of the four volumes of Beckett’s selected letters, has announced the launch of a new website to aid scholars in researching the author’s correspondence. The Interactive Index to the Letters of Samuel Beckett in Public Archives, has been…
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‘Beckett has been waiting for Kurtág all this time,’ wrote The New Yorker after the triumphant La Scala premiere of György Kurtág’s Endgame (Fin de partie) in 2018. Subsequently named one of the greatest operas of the century by The Guardian, Kurtág’s ‘unforgettable’ adaption of Samuel Beckett’s play has its highly anticipated UK premiere. The…
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The 23rd edition of the Festival Beckett will take place in Roussillon en Provence from the 15-20 July. Held in the town in which Beckett and Suzanne saw out the last of World War II, this year’s festival offers a combination of theatrical performances, lectures and conversation in convivial and resonant surroundings. The highlights of…
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A new play by Philip Landon receives a reading at London’s The Space on July 23. Midnight Tattoos details the events as ‘rebel Suzie and bookworm Michael meet on the plane from JFK to Paris. Together, they explore Samuel Beckett’s favourite haunts and solve the riddle of Waiting for Godot‘. Taking part are David Mildon, Jeannie…
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A weekend residential course on the plays of Samuel Beckett takes place at Madingley Hall, home of the University of Cambridge Institiute of Continuing Education. The course, which is directed by Dr Andy Wimbush, will explore how Beckett’s strange but often very funny plays, including Godot, Endgame, and Happy Days, can speak to us today about love, friendship,…
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Beckett’s work has inspired many contemporary visual artists, but in recent years it has been the area of artists’ film that has seen the clearest impact. On Friday 23rd of June 2023 The Samuel Beckett Research Centre at the University of Reading will present rarely screened work by several artists, including Vidéo by Stan Douglas (above right) and O…
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