The Kilkenny Arts Festival presents another landmark in Gare St Lazare Ireland’s engagement with Samuel Beckett. The Last Tape is Romanian composer Marcel Mihalovici’s operatic collaboration with the Irish author. This production offers a rare opportunity to encounter one of Beckett’s few opera collaborations for its Irish premiere in a new hybrid version melding the opera and the original play.…
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The long-awaited publication of Beckett’s German Diaries is scheduled for 20 August. The German Diaries represent the last significant unpublished writings by Beckett. They provide insights into the evolution of Beckett’s aesthetics in his critical confrontation with literature and visual art. But also into the motivations behind his decision to embark upon this trip. They…
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The death has taken place of leading Beckett scholar Charles Krance on 28 July last at his home in Ruisse, France. A pioneer in the area of genetic scholarship in Beckett Studies, he taught at the University of Chicago from 1969 to 1994, specialising in twentieth-century French Literature (and in particular Louis-Ferdinand Céline and Beckett),…
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Galina Kiryushina and Pim Verhulst have published a call for papers for a special issue of Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd’hui titled ‘Broadcasting Beckett Across Borders’ which they are planning as guest editors. Over the past decade, Beckett’s exploration of technological media has attracted much interest, with essay collections such as Samuel Beckett and BBC…
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An interesting roundtable event has been announced around the subject of Beckett and Cyprus. The event will be hosted at the Centre of Visual Arts and Research in Nicosia and will co-organised by the Centre’s Collections manager Holly Kunst and international Beckett scholar Swati Joshi. Planning for the event is ongoing but the organisers have…
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The Samuel Beckett Early Career Scholars Initiative has just announced its latest webinar. Titled “Getting known: Publishing in Beckett Studies”, the session will share ideas on aspects of getting published in the discipline. An attractive list of experience speakers will include: Dr. Amanda Dennis (The American University of Paris), Book Reviews Editor, The Beckett Review Dr.…
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Dans le cadre du festival « After Beckett : Festival Beckett/Not Beckett » organisé à Bordeaux du 9 au 11 décembre 2026, ce nouveau Beckett Brunch propose de réfléchir aux réécritures contemporaines de l’œuvre de Samuel Beckett plus de trente-cinq ans après sa disparition. Une attention particulière sera portée à la traduction comme pratique de transmission, aux nouvelles…
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As part of the After Beckett : Festival Beckett/Not Beckett taking place in Bordeaux from 9-11 December 2026, this latest Beckett Brunch invites reflections, creative responses, and short papers on contemporary engagements with and rewritings of Samuel Beckett’s work, over thirty-five years after his death. This event will particularly engage with translation as a process of…
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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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