The provisional programme for the 8th Annual Samuel Beckett Society Conference has just been announced by the organisers. The event will take place completely on-line and shows a widely diverse international list of presenters. Participation and attendance is free of charge to all members of the society. Links will be provided closer to the event.…
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The annual Beckett International Foundation Research Seminar will take place on Saturday 4 November at the Minghella Building on Whiteknights Campus, University of Reading. As always, the line-up consists of papers from four specially invited speakers, with ample time allowed for discussion and chat. This years speakers are Elizabeth Barry, Xander Ryan, Hannah Simpson and…
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The latest issue of the Beckett Circle, Autumn 2023, is now available to all members of the Samuel Beckett Society. Included are interviews with playwrights Hanah Khallil and Jen Barclay, an unpublished interview by Beckett biographer James Knowlson’s archive, a guide to the upcoming Society Annual conference (which will be held on-line and is free…
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The death has taken place of Michael Gambon, the well-known screen and stage actor. Born in Dublin in 1940, making his professional debut in the city’s Gate Theatre at the age of 24, Gambon took part in a number of significant Beckett productions over the years. In 2006, he was directed by Atom Egoyan in…
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Following on from the recent success of their Greek translation of Eleutheria, Thessaloniki-based Oblik Editions has just published a brand new translation of Echo’s Bones. Like its predecessor, Oστά της Ηχούς has been translated by Anastasia Deligianni, who also provides a full scholarly introduction. The handsome production is finished to the exceedingly high standards of…
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As we announced last month, the team at The Letters of Samuel Beckett at Emory University have inaugurated a fully interactive index to those Beckett letters which are held in public archives. Titled CHERCHER, this facility will be of enormous help to scholars of all types as they undertake their research. Following the official launch…
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Download for free for a limited period The highly-anticipated, latest title in the Cambridge University Press ‘Elements in Beckett Studies’ series has just been released. Insufferable: Beckett, Gender and Sexuality, as its summary argues ‘rethinks the role of gender politics in the oeuvre, demonstrates Beckett’s historical importance in the development of the “antisocial thesis” in…
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An online workshop aimed at researchers who are currently in the process of writing their dissertations has been organized by the Samuel Beckett Early Career Scholars Initiative. Appropriatey titled “Finished, it’s finished, nearly finished, it must be nearly finished” and described as a ‘welcoming workshop’, the event will be led by Hannah Simpson, who received…
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A watercolour portrait of Samuel Beckett (above) by his friend, the major Irish painter Louis le Brocquy (1916-2012), is to be auctioned in Dublin to raise funds for a signficant new Beckett project. The lot is included in the Adam’s Important Irish Art sale which takes place on Wednesday 27 September in Dublin and which…
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A new production of Waiting for Godot from Catastrophic Theater opens at MIDTOWN ARTS & THEATER CENTER HOUSTON, Texas on 29 September and will play until 14 October. This will be the eighth production of a Beckett play by Catastrophic or its forerunner Infernal Bridegroom Productions (IBP) which has seen the companies emerge as the…
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