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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Bloomsbury have just announced the publication of Not Beckett: The Plays, collecting the five pieces which constituted the extraordinary project that ran for the past two years. Encompassing performances in six different locations across the United Kingdom, Ireland and the United States, Not Beckett had as its stated aim ‘to further explore the artistic influence…
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The Thessaloniki-based publishing house Oblik Editions have released the third in their series of Beckett translations. Ό,τι ανεβαίνει, κατεβαίνει (More Pricks than Kicks) is once again translated, and features a comprehensive introducion by the multi-talented Anastasia Deligianni. Like the previous volumes in the series, Greek versions of Eleutheria and Echo’s Bones, Ό,τι ανεβαίνει, κατεβαίνει is…
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The 25th annual celebration of Samuel Beckett in Roussillon, the town where he spent so much of his time during the war and which had such an impact on his work, takes place from 26-30 July. The festival comprises an expanded and promising programme of performance and lectures from leading international interpreters of his work,…
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An announcement reaches us from Cambridge University Press of a significant new work of scholarship by Ulrika Maude of the University of Bristol. Titled Samuel Beckett and Medicine, the new work offers ‘the first sustained analysis of the Beckett’s abiding interest in medicine and medical discourses, advancing insights into the representation of illness, neurodiversity, disability,…
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Beckett and Intertextuality 11th Annual Conference of the Samuel Beckett Society University of Antwerp, 20-22 May 2026 No sooner has the dust settled on the remarkable Beckett’s Relationships in Edinburgh than we look forward immediately to next year’s annual conference. The call for papers has just been announced and it reads as follows: In 2026…
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