The latest seminars in the online series Beckett and Japan will take place in the coming weeks. On Saturday 13 May, Seminar 4 features Euske Oiwa addressing the theme ‘Facing the Time: Beckett’s Theatricality and Installation Art’, and Kumiko Kiuchi of the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan reviewing ‘Thirty Years: Reception of Samuel Beckett’s prose…
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Volume 44 Issue 1 of the Beckett Circle, the publication of the Samuel Beckett Society, is now live and available to all Society members here. A packed issue contains a fascianting long-read as Katherine Weiss discusses the process undertaken by well-known television and stage actor Monica Horan and director Rob Weiner as they developed a…
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The next session in the London Beckett Seminar will take place on Friday April 28 at 18:00 BST. This month’s guest lecturer is Professor Ulrika Maude of the University of Bristol. Her lecture title is ‘Beckett’s Obscene Body of Poetry and Other Precipitates’ and addresses the following abstract:The Published in 1935, Beckett’s first collection of…
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Next month sees a three-session course on the plays of Samuel Beckett guided by Professor Patrick Bixby, president of the Samuel Beckett Society. The sessions, which will run over three days 17, 24 & 31 May, will examine three of the plays, Waiting for Godot, Endgame, and Happy Days aiming ‘to explore the limits of…
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Nearly two years ago, Monica Horan, an American actor famous for her role as Amy in sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, and Rob Weiner, former associate director at Chinati Foundation, submerged themselves in Happy Days. Weiner directed Horan (Winnie) and Tim Durkin (Willie) in a process of discovery – their rehearsals – over Zoom and then…
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Watch trailer here. The highly acclaimed production of Endgame at the Irish Repertory Theatre in New York, directed by Ciarán O’Reilly, and starring Bill Irwin (Clov), John Douglas Thompson (Hamm), Joe Grifasi (Nagg) and Patrice Johnson Chevannes (Nell) has been playing to packed houses since its opening. As it draws to a close this weekend,…
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In conjunction with the forthcoming Samuel Beckett in Central Europe conference to be held in Charles University, Prague on 20-21 April 2023, the organisers have launched an open call for papers on the subject for a special issue of Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui.Submissions do not have to have been included in the conference programme to be…
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The call for papers has just been announced 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 is proposing its first completely online…
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Following a keenly contested process, incoming Samuel Beckett Society President Patrick Bixby has announced the results of the election of new members to the executive committee. In a message to members, Professor Bixby decalared: ‘the next Vice President of the Society (to succeed to the Presidency in two years) will be Elizabeth Barry of the…
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The University of Gdańsk will host a parallel seminar and conference from May 18-20 this year and are currently accepting submissions in an open call for papers. The seminar,Who Wrote Godot?, takes its title from a suggestion by Professor S.E. Gontarski(Florida State University, USA) who will be in Gdańsk/Sopot to launch his new book Bad…
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