The latest issue of The Beckett Circle is now available to all members. A particularly full and diverse issue features a full-length interview with Thai artist Saun Santipreecha, as well as another with documentary-maker Jacob Adams. James Knowlson provides a beautifully detailed reading of Beckett’s close friend Ethna MacCarthy’s poetry and personality. There are reports…
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This Summer sees a festival and celebration of Beckett crossing transnational boundaries, as Beckett: Unbound 2024 takes place in Liverpool and Paris. The brainchild of actor Adrian Dunbar and composer Nick Roth, the festival builds on the success of Beckett: Confined 2022, once again partnering with The University of Liverpool’s Institute of Irish Studies and The…
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The Executive Committee of the Samuel Beckett Society has announced the following: The leadership of the Samuel Beckett Society is very pleased to announce the ratification of our Mission Statement and Code of Conduct. We have drafted a Mission Statement for the first time to focus our efforts as an organization, to better serve and…
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As part of the 30th Anniversary celebrations of the Samuel Beckett Theatre, Trinity College Dublin, the venue is playing host to a photographic exhibition detailing the remarkable Irish language productions of Happy Days (Laethanta Sona) presented by Company SJ on Inis Oírr, Aran Islands and in the Samuel Beckett Theatre at Trinity College in 2021.…
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A rare chance to see a dance work inspired by Beckett and created by French choreographer Maguy Marin awaits at Sadler’s Wells in London at the end of the month. First performed in 1981, May B is described as an ‘arresting and powerfully theatrical work’ based on the writings of Samuel Beckett, who, we are told…
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Beckettiana, abre la convocatoria para la presentación de artículos reseñas o documentos acerca de la obra de Samuel Beckett en cualquiera de sus aspectos (teatro, poesía, narrativa, ensayística; intertextualidad, interdisciplinariedad, bilingüismo, puesta en escena, Irlanda, traductología etc.) con miras de su inclusión en el número 21, del año 2024. La fecha límite para la presentación…
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Registration has just opened for Beckett and Justice, the 9th annual conference of the Samuel Beckett Society takes place in Cal State LA on June 6-8. In the spirit of the confernece, attendance is completely free for all panels and roundtables but registration is essential through the conference’s eventbrite page, which can be accessed here…
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As part of the well-established series of seminars designed to support and promote Beckett scholars in the early stages of their career, an open session titled : “… if I ever stop talking it will be because there is nothing more to be said …” will take place on May 2, 2024 @ 11AM-12PM PST.…
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The latest in the Cambridge Elements in Beckett Studies series has just been released. As outlined in the book’s abstract, Beckett and Cioran, by Steven Matthews, discusses the association between Beckett, and the Romanian-born philosopher, E. M. Cioran. It draws upon the known biographical detail, but, more substantially, upon the terms of Beckett’s engagement with…
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Fresh from OR Books comes Beckett’s Children: A Literary Memoir from the pen of long-standing Beckettian Michael Coffey. Described as ‘a lyrical blend of personal memoir, father-son dialogue, and literary investigation’ the book ‘probes the works of Irish writer Samuel Beckett and American poet Susan Howe’ searching for traces of various connections, including the their…
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