Daniela Caselli shares her fascination with Beckett’s writing, and what she sees as the next step for the Society
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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…
Read MoreDear Mr. Beckett: Letters From The Publisher
A new book of correspondence, interviews, and photographs documenting Beckett’s relationship with American publisher Barney Rosset
Read MoreMatthew Feldman on Beckett’s Letters
Times Higher Education offers a weekly look over the shoulders of their scholar-reviewers
Read MoreInterview with editor Dan Gunn on Beckett’s Letters (Vol.4)
Go behind the scenes of the fourth and final volume in the acclaimed series
Read MoreUCC Library Acquires John Minihan Photographic Archive
UCC Library has secured the photographic collection and archive of the photographer, John Minihan, boasting some of the most memorable photographic images from the last century
Read MoreLetters editor Martha Dow Fehsenfeld remembers Beckett
Q&A from cambridgeblog.org
Read MoreNotFilm: New Documentary on Samuel Beckett’s Film
Milestone Film production aims to shed light on Samuel Beckett’s only motion picture //player.vimeo.com/video/71237012?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0 A press release from IndieGoGo: Documentary will reveal for the first time the rediscovered missing first scene of Samuel Beckett’s FILM and a long-forgotten sound recording featuring Beckett himself. The first-ever Milestone Film production, directed by well-known filmmaker/archivist Ross Lipman. In…
Read MoreNight Waves: Derval Tubridy talks to Lisa Dwan
Dwan on Not I at London’s Royal Court Theatre From BBC Radio 3: ‘The stage is in darkness except for a mouth visible about eight feet above stage level, “emitting” a stream-of-consciousness account of a life. Samuel Beckett’s ‘Not I’ received its European premiere 40 years ago at the Royal Court Theatre in London. To mark…
Read More‘Fiendishly Deadpan Pleasure’: Michael Brodsky reflects on Translating Eleuthéria
Stephen Graf Nearly eighteen years have passed since he was first appointed the task of translating Samuel Beckett’s Eleuthéria into English, but it doesn’t take long for the old frustrations to resurface for author Michael Brodsky. Brodsky’s translation was undertaken at the direction of Beckett’s long-time American publisher, Barney Rosset, and Brodsky’s publisher at Four…
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