The Festival will open on March 4th 2017, 111 years after the Irish poet’s birthday on 13th April 1906
Read MoreSamuel Beckett and Cinema
A new study explores the playwright’s enduring relationship with the moving image
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Call for Papers: Samuel Beckett Working Group
Universidade de São Paulo • 10-14 July, 2017 The Samuel Beckett Working Group will be meeting at the FIRT/IFTR International Federation for Theatre Research Annual Conference Papers to be presented at the Working Group are distributed and read by all the participants ahead of the meeting. At the Working Group sessions presenters give short résumés of their…
Read MoreAnthony Cronin, 1928-2016
Poet, critic, and author of Samuel Beckett: The Last Modernist, has passed away aged 88
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Alan Mandell Will Finish His Stage Career the Way He Started It: with a Performance of Endgame
The 88-year-old actor first acted in Samuel Beckett’s play nearly 50 years ago—and Beckett watched him do it “It is hard work,” actor/director Alan Mandell says of performing on stage. “I’ve told someone who asked me about learning lines that it was easier when I was 85.” Yet here he goes once more onto the…
Read MoreBarry McGovern in “I’ll Go On” at the Kirk Douglas Theatre
Voices, knowledge and ignorance: Reflections on experiences of Company
20 January 2017, 12pm – 2pm
Read MoreBeckett Research Group in Gdańsk
University of Gdańsk, 15-21 May 2017
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