The latest issue of the Journal of Becket Studies is now available. A special issue, guest-edited by Georgina Nugent, it seeks to add to what it describes as the ‘increasingly insistent reassessment of the role of women within and without of Beckett’s œuvre, a movement spearheaded by Linda Ben-Zvi and Mary Bryden’s ground-breaking respective studies Women in Beckett:…
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The Samuel Beckett Society is delighted to announce an essay competition for 2024 aimed solely at incarcerated persons in prisons and correctional institutions. Organised by Dr Katherine Weiss of California State University, Los Angeles, to coincide with 2024’s Samuel Beckett Society Annual Conference Beckett and Justice, the competition is inviting essay responses and creative responses…
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For three nights only, Birmingham Rep will host Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days with BAFTA winner Siobhán McSweeney (Derry Girls, The Great Pottery Throw Down) in the role of Winnie, directed by Caitríona McLaughlin, Artistic Director of The Abbey Theatre, Dublin, Ireland’s National Theatre. This will be the production’s only outing in the United Kingdom on its current run. Brimingham…
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A new initiative to help early career scholars in the worldwide Beckett Studies community is being launched by the respected scholars Julie Bates (Trinity College Dublin) and Katherine Weiss (California State LA] in which they seek to create a network of support for the particular cohort. In an address to all relevant parties they write:…
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A reminder that the deadline of 30 May is approaching for submission of abstracts for the 8th Annual Samuel Beckett Society conference which will be held virtually in December of 2023. Responding to the growing awareness of anthropogenic climate change and the need to reduce the environmental impact of academic travel, the Samuel Beckett Society…
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The latest seminars in the online series Beckett and Japan will take place in the coming weeks. On Saturday 13 May, Seminar 4 features Euske Oiwa addressing the theme ‘Facing the Time: Beckett’s Theatricality and Installation Art’, and Kumiko Kiuchi of the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan reviewing ‘Thirty Years: Reception of Samuel Beckett’s prose…
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Volume 44 Issue 1 of the Beckett Circle, the publication of the Samuel Beckett Society, is now live and available to all Society members here. A packed issue contains a fascianting long-read as Katherine Weiss discusses the process undertaken by well-known television and stage actor Monica Horan and director Rob Weiner as they developed a…
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The next session in the London Beckett Seminar will take place on Friday April 28 at 18:00 BST. This month’s guest lecturer is Professor Ulrika Maude of the University of Bristol. Her lecture title is ‘Beckett’s Obscene Body of Poetry and Other Precipitates’ and addresses the following abstract:The Published in 1935, Beckett’s first collection of…
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Watch trailer here. The highly acclaimed production of Endgame at the Irish Repertory Theatre in New York, directed by Ciarán O’Reilly, and starring Bill Irwin (Clov), John Douglas Thompson (Hamm), Joe Grifasi (Nagg) and Patrice Johnson Chevannes (Nell) has been playing to packed houses since its opening. As it draws to a close this weekend,…
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Following a keenly contested process, incoming Samuel Beckett Society President Patrick Bixby has announced the results of the election of new members to the executive committee. In a message to members, Professor Bixby decalared: ‘the next Vice President of the Society (to succeed to the Presidency in two years) will be Elizabeth Barry of the…
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