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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The Journal of Beckett Studies has been the journal of record for the established and expanding field of Beckett studies for forty years. Founded by Beckett’s biographer James Knowlson and well-known Beckett critic John Pilling in 1976, the journal covers topics such as corporeality, disability, politics, psychology, aesthetics, gender, translations, modernism and more. The publishers of the…
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A weekend residential course on the plays of Samuel Beckett takes place at Madingley Hall, home of the University of Cambridge Institiute of Continuing Education. The course, which is directed by Dr Andy Wimbush, will explore how Beckett’s strange but often very funny plays, including Godot, Endgame, and Happy Days, can speak to us today about love, friendship,…
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Beckett’s work has inspired many contemporary visual artists, but in recent years it has been the area of artists’ film that has seen the clearest impact. On Friday 23rd of June 2023 The Samuel Beckett Research Centre at the University of Reading will present rarely screened work by several artists, including Vidéo by Stan Douglas (above right) and O…
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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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A brand new Greek translation of Beckett’s unperformed play Eleutheria has just been published by Oblik Editions of Thessaloniki. The translation is the work of noted Beckett scholar Anastasia Deligianni, who also contributes a thorough and scholarly introduction to the book. This particularly handsome paperback volume has a wonderful cover illustration by Nicole Arnold and…
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A significant publication in the field of Beckett Studies in Spanish comes from Atuel Ediciones in Buenos Aires. El Monólogo Mudo: En torno a la obra de Samuel Beckett is a major new work by Beckett Society board member Lucas Margarit which offers a wide-ranging, eminently readable and intellectually satisfying, this book will attract new…
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The latest title in the Elements in Beckett Studies series has just been published and is available to download here free of charge for a limited period. Beckett and Stein by Georgina Nugent offers ‘the first extended comparative study of Gertrude Stein’s role in the development of Beckett’s aesthetics. In doing so it redresses the…
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Issue 19 of Beckettiana (2022) is available now to download here. Beckettiana is the only wholly Spanish-language journal devoted to Beckett Studies and is co-edited in Buenos Aires Argentina by Lucas Margarit, María Inés Castagnino and Marcelo Lara. The current issue is a particularly rich one as it celebrates 30 years since the title’s initiantion.…
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