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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Among the clutch of new titles in Beckett Studies comes Samuel Beckett and Catastrophe from Palgrave Macmillan. Edited by Michiko Tsushima, Yoshiki Tajiri, Mariko Hori Tanaka, the volume promises to be ‘a groundbreaking collection of original essays that explore the relation between Samuel Beckett and catastrophe in terms of war, the Holocaust, nuclear disasters and…
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Samuel Beckett’s Poetry. Eds James Brophy & William Davies. Cambridge UP. Last month saw the publication of what is described as ‘the first book-length study of Beckett’s complete poetry’. Editors James Brophy and William Davies have gathered together contributions from an impressive list of scholars to provide a book which is designed for students and…
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Beckett’s Afterlives: Adaptation, remediation, appropriation Coming in February from Manchester University Press is a collection of essays dealing with the numerous and various adaptations of Beckett’s works. Edited by Jonathan Bignell, Pim Verhulst and Anna McMullan, the volume is is the first book-length study dedicated to this creative phenomenon. Its pre-publication description promisies a volume…
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