The death has taken place of Michael Gambon, the well-known screen and stage actor. Born in Dublin in 1940, making his professional debut in the city’s Gate Theatre at the age of 24, Gambon took part in a number of significant Beckett productions over the years. In 2006, he was directed by Atom Egoyan in…
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As we announced last month, the team at The Letters of Samuel Beckett at Emory University have inaugurated a fully interactive index to those Beckett letters which are held in public archives. Titled CHERCHER, this facility will be of enormous help to scholars of all types as they undertake their research. Following the official launch…
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Download for free for a limited period The highly-anticipated, latest title in the Cambridge University Press ‘Elements in Beckett Studies’ series has just been released. Insufferable: Beckett, Gender and Sexuality, as its summary argues ‘rethinks the role of gender politics in the oeuvre, demonstrates Beckett’s historical importance in the development of the “antisocial thesis” in…
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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 watercolour portrait of Samuel Beckett (above) by his friend, the major Irish painter Louis le Brocquy (1916-2012), is to be auctioned in Dublin to raise funds for a signficant new Beckett project. The lot is included in the Adam’s Important Irish Art sale which takes place on Wednesday 27 September in Dublin and which…
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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 Samuel Beckett Society 9th Annual Conference. The 9th Annual Conference of the Samuel Beckett Society will take place in Los Angeles, CA on the campus of Cal State LA from June 6-8, 2024. We hope that the conference theme, Beckett and Justice, will speak to several areas in Beckett Studies and will give space…
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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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