The publication has been announced by Bloomsbury of the monograph Staging Beckett in London. Authored by Matthew McFrederick, Lecturer in Theatre at the University of Reading and Co-Director of the Beckett International Foundation, it completes the Staging Beckett series which also includes …in Great Britain, and …in Ireland and Northern Ireland which were edited by…
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Following the highly succesful Beckett’s Relations conference at the University of Edinburgh, and to coincide with the launch of the Society’s publication The Beckett Review, recently-elected president, Liz Barry, marked the occasion with her first public address. Detailing the work of the Society over the past year and outlining the programme of events which it…
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The latest edition of Beckettiana, the Spanish language publication devoted to the author’s work and edited in Buenos Aires, is now available to download. Volume 21, co-edited by Lucas Margarit, María Inés Castagnino and Marcelo Lara, contains an impressive collection of artciles and reviews from a varied list of scholars including Patrick Bixby, Everett Frost, Manuel…
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Announced this week is a new publication from the Bloomsbury imprint. Taking its cue from contemporary developments in Beckett scholarship Beckett and Nature, we are told is ‘focused on ecocriticism, posthumanism, and the Anthropocene, going beyond them into a questioning of the very concepts of “Nature” and “the natural.” It examines one of the most…
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We have had a request from our colleagues at the Edward Albee Society which we are pleased to pass on in the spirit of scholarly fraternity and as part of promoting international participation in literary endeavours. Dear Beckettians, I am writing you in my capacity as the President of The Edward Albee Society. While we…
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Today sees the exciting launch of the new official publication of the Samuel Beckett Society, The Beckett Review. Continuing the excellent work of its predecessor The Beckett Circle, it will combine its traditional varied collection of book and performance reviews with contributions from Beckettians across the world, interviews with practitioners and authors, and longread articles…
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The death has taken place in New York of groundbreaking actor, director, designer and visual artist Robert Wilson. Known for his many stage collaborations with artists as varied as William Burroughs, Philip Glass and Tom Waits, Wilson is also noted for highly individual and stylised productions of three plays by Samuel Beckett. His production of…
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This September sees the opening of an exhibition, lecture series and public performances marking Samuel Beckett’s long-standing and important engagement with Germany, the German language and German culture. The event takes its title ‘The German Room’ from the early story ‘Dante and the Lobster’, where – after describing the location of the “French room” in…
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Free Download available here until 21 July 2025 The latest in the Cambridge Elements in Beckett Studies series has just been announced. Suzanne Dumesnil, Suzanne Beckett is authored by Emilie Morin, and is a study of Beckett’s long-time partner and wife Suzanne Déchevaux-Dumesnil (1900-1989). As Morin points out, little has been written about Suzanne probably…
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The call for papers has just been announced for the second instalment of the Grey Pluralities Seminar series which will take place on 26 October 2025. Following on from last year’s highly successful ‘…but the clouds…’ seminar, ‘All that left me cold, or nearly’: Decoding Colding in Beckett’ aims to address the issue of coldness…
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