University of Reading · 3 October 2013 Ian Rickson Staging Beckett: Ian Rickson in conversation with Mark Taylor-BattyThe Minghella Building, University of Reading, Whiteknights campus, Reading.Thursday 3 October 7.30pm. Doors open 6.30pm.Followed by wine reception. The University of Reading, the Staging Beckett project, and the Beckett International Foundation are delighted to present a conversation with…
Read MoreSiân Phillips and Samuel Beckett
Rare photograph from the BBC radio production of Eh Joe Siân Phillips and Samuel Beckett. Photograph: Michael Peto via babylonwales.blogspot.co.uk
Read MoreBeckett and Contemporary Art: Make Sense Who May
Derval Tubridy to appear at this year’s Edinburgh International Festival Derval Tubridy, Goldsmiths, University of London, explores the vibrant interplay between Samuel Beckett’s work and contemporary art with a particular focus on bodies and technology. Chaired by Octavian Saiu. Date and Time: 28 August 2013, 2.30pm. Tickets: £6Duration: 1 hour approximatelyVenue: The HubSeries: Beckett at…
Read More‘The fierce vision of Samuel Beckett’
Benedict Nightingale reevaluates the Nobel Prize winning dramatist Samuel Beckett. Steve Schapiro / Corbis From The Times (link via Lisa Dwan): ‘New productions of the playwright’s work force a reassessment in which some compare him with Bach and Mozart’ [Read More]
Read MoreFive top Beckett plays
Benedict Nightingale (The Times) lists his favourites Billie Whitelaw, pictured with Beckett. John Haynes/AP From The Times (link via Lisa Dwan): ‘They may be short but they’re powerful: the most memorable performances of the work of Samuel Beckett’ [Read More]
Read MoreManuscript Notebook: Le dépeupleur
Notebook containing an early French draft of The Lost Ones posted by Washington University Manuscript page of Samuel Beckett’s Le dépeupleur Images via Washington University. via apieceofmonologue.com
Read MoreWaiting for Godot: Yiddish Premiere
Godot is coming! !גאָדאָ קומט 20 September – 13 OctoberFridays and Saturdays at 7:30 PMSundays at 2 PM Yiddish brings into Beckett’s text a special historical and cultural poignancy, that of the homeless survivor whose only home is his language and his culture; a language and culture in which tears of laughter and tears of…
Read MoreWaiting for Godot: Dublin Theatre Festival 2013
Gaiety Theatre · 2 October – 6 October From Dublin Theatre Festival 2013: ‘…at this place, at this moment in time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not.’ On a country road towards the end of day two friends wait for a man named Godot to arrive. Their comical efforts to pass…
Read MoreBiF: Beckett’s Murphy Notebooks
An announcement from the Beckett International Foundation Dear Friends and Colleagues As many of you will have heard, the University of Reading has acquired Samuel Beckett’s six Murphy notebooks at Sotheby’s last week. We are, needless to say, absolutely thrilled that the notebooks are coming to the Beckett Collection in Reading, and that they will…
Read MoreJames Knowlson on the Murphy Manuscripts
Professor Knowlson reflects on the significance of Reading’s recent acquisition
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