Edinburgh University Press has just announced the publication of a new monograph by Jonathan McAllister. Titled Beckett, Performance and the Miming Body in Theatre, Film and Television the book takes Beckett’s mimes as a departure point and questions the value of his close attention to and choreography of the body for performance. It examines how…
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La 26e édition du Festival Beckett aura lieu du 25 au 31 juillet à Apt, Banon, Roussillon en Provence et Saint-Saturnin-lès-Apt. Le Festival Beckett est avant tout une histoire de fidélité : fidélité à une œuvre, à un territoire et à un public qui l’accompagne. Fondé avec passion et conviction par Henri Vart, le festival…
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The call for papers has just been announced for the 12th annual Samuel Beckett Society Conference which will be held in Bordeaux, France June 9-11, 2027. Titled East- and Southward Ho / Cap à l’Est, Cap au Sud, this conference, convened by Pascale Sardin and Karine Germoni, is a collaboration between l’Université Bordeaux Montaigne, Sorbonne…
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La estimada revista en línea Beckettiana abre la convocatoria para la presentación de artículos, reseñas, notas o documentos acerca de la obra de Samuel Beckett en cualquiera de sus aspectos (teatro, poesía, narrativa, ensayística, traducción; intertextualidad, interdisciplinariedad, bilingüismo, puesta en escena, Irlanda, traductología, etc.) con miras a su inclusión en el número 23 del año…
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The latest issue of The Beckett Review, the official publication of the Samuel Beckett Society, was published yesterday. In the excitement, howver, an article slipped through the presses. Therefore, the packed issue contains even more with the addition of Katherine Weiss’s interview with Puppeteers for Fears, which can be viewed here. Elsewhere, volume 2:1 features the usual…
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The latest issue of The Beckett Review, the official publication of the Samuel Beckett Society, has just gone live. Volume 2:1 features the usual blend of news and reviews from around the world keeping the community informed and enlightened on all things Beckett. The current edition features a long essay by Iranian-born theatre director Ali…
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The latest issue of the Journal of Beckett Studies has just been released. It is a special number marking the fiftieth anniversary of the Journal. The issue includes a special essay on Beckett’s personal library by the journal editors Dirk Van Hulle and Mark Nixon. The issue will be launched at an event at the…
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Gare St Lazare Ireland are to stage the complete version of Beckett’s prose work How it is at this year’s Venice Biennale in collaboration with Berggruen Arts & Culture. The production, directed by Judy Hegarty Lovett with design collaboration by artist Michael Craig Martin, draws on the three separate productions of parts I, II &…
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It is with great sadness that the President and Board of the Samuel Beckett Society learned of the recent passing of the renowned Finnish academic Clas Zilliacus. Noted for his outstanding and pioneering work Beckett and Broadcasting: A Study of the Works of Samuel Beckett for and in Radio and Television, published by the Finnish…
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Oxford University Press has just announced the publication of the latest in its Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs series. Titled Sadean Intertext and Aesthetics in Samuel Beckett’s Works and authored by Dr Elsa Baroghel, the book is described as ‘the first full-length study of the relevance of the Marquis de Sade to the works…
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