25 February – 1 March 2014 · Secret Location, Cambridge Roughsby Samuel Beckett11pm, Tuesday 25 February – Saturday 1 MarchAt a Secret Central Cambridge Location: Visit http://www.adcticketing.com for details. Produced by Cambridge University’s Heywood Society, with the support of the Lady Margaret Players. Direct event link: http://www.adcticketing.com/whats-on/drama/roughs.aspx The Production: ‘Roughs’ is an immersive staged reading…
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3 March 2014 · Trinity College Dublin Professor Stanley E. Gontarski Working with Beckett3 March 2014Trinity College Dublin A lecture by Prof Stanley E Gontarski (Florida State University), organised by the Trinity College Library, the School of English and the School of Drama, Film and Music, TCD. Professor Stanley E Gontarski, whose letters, papers and…
Read MoreSamuel Beckett and the Archive: Rewriting the Beckett Canon
Call for submissions to a Palgrave Macmillan collection of essays New Interpretations of Beckett in the Twenty-First Century From Endpage (thanks to Pim Verhulst for the link): Samuel Beckett and the Archive: Rewriting the Beckett Canon (Part of the ‘New Interpretations of Beckett in the Twenty-First Century’ series)Edited by Jennifer M. Jeffers As the leading…
Read MoreBeckett Digital Manuscript Project: L’Innommable / The Unnamable
New digital instalment places pioneering work of fiction under the magnifying glass The Making of Samuel Beckett’s L’Innomable / The Unnamable (BDMP2). The Beckett Digital Manuscript Project (www.beckettarchive.org) is pleased to announce the publication of the genetic edition of L’Innommable / The Unnamable, edited by Dirk Van Hulle and Shane Weller; technical realization: Vincent Neyt. This…
Read MoreSamuel Beckett Summer School 2014
Trinity College Dublin · 10-16 August 2014 Design: Rhys Tranter The 2014 Samuel Beckett Summer School runs from 10–16 August 2014. Applications now available from our website. Preliminary list of speakers: Elizabeth Barry Gerald Dawe Lois More Overbeck Laura Salisbury Anthony Uhlmann Dirk Van Hulle A Roundtable discussion, ‘Beckett beyond the Humanities’, chaired by Jonathan…
Read MorePraise for Lisa Dwan’s Samuel Beckett Trilogy
Still time to catch Not I/Footfalls/Rockaby in London’s West End The Telegraph Lisa Dwan performs in Becket’s late plays. Photo: Alastair Muir From Charles Spencer (The Telegraph): When I was younger, I intensely disliked Samuel Beckett. I found his gloom oppressive and the ambiguity of his writing frustrating. These days however I hang on to…
Read MoreBeckett and Animals
A new collection of essays edited by Mary Bryden Beckett and Animals, ed. Mary Bryden Beckett and AnimalsEdited by Mary BrydenUniversity of Reading 20% discount if ordered before 28 February 2014Order online at http://www.cambridge.org/beckett14or enter the discount code beckett14 at the checkout The animals that appear in Samuel Beckett’s work are diverse and unpredictable. They…
Read MoreMLA Convention: Chicago, 2014
An announcement from the Samuel Beckett Society Dear Friends and Colleagues For those of you who will be travelling to the pleasant climate of Chicago to attend the MLA Convention next week (9-12 January), may I draw your attention to the two panels organised by the Samuel Beckett Society: Samuel Beckett’s Fiction and the Vulnerability…
Read MoreSamuel Beckett and Quietism
John Gallagher talks to Andy Wimbush [Source] via apieceofmonologue.com
Read MoreSamuel Beckett Working Group: Warwick 2014
University of Warwick · 28 July – 1 August, 2014 Samuel Beckett in London, taking a break with the San Quentin Drama Workshop. Left to right: David Hare, Alan Mandell, Samuel Beckett and friend. ‘Call for Papers’Samuel Beckett Working GroupUniversity of Warwick28 July – 1 August, 2014 The Samuel Beckett Working Group (SBWG) will be…
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