Royal Court Theatre · 9-18 January 2014 From Royal Court Theatre (thanks to Julia Séguier for the link): Lisa Dwan returns to the Royal Court Theatre to perform a one-woman Samuel Beckett trilogy after a critically acclaimed sell-out run of his landmark one–woman piece Not I, performed at the Royal Court forty years after the…
Read MoreMurphy Manuscript Acquired at Auction
One of the greatest literary manuscripts of the 20th century acquired by the Beckett International Foundation A page from Samuel Beckett’s Murphy notebooks From the University of Reading: The University of Reading is delighted to announce that it has acquired the working manuscript of Samuel Beckett’s first major work, Murphy, at the cost of £962,500,…
Read MoreSamuel Beckett Series 3: The “dramaticules”
Announcing the third volume of the series A 2005 production of Samuel Beckett’s Footfalls, La Mama Theatre (Source) If the “great plays” are a regular part of the theatrical repertoire, Beckett’s late plays remain little known by non specialists. Thus, this third volume of our Series seeks to highlight the extreme poetic richness of these…
Read MoreDaniel Domig: Clay Animation Project
A video experiment Simon Larsen has kindly drawn my attention to this experimental video animation, based on an extract from Samuel Beckett’s Malone Dies. It is a test by Austrian/American artist Daniel Domig, who is developing a series of works based on Beckett’s Texts for Nothing. The spoken word element of the video is provided…
Read MoreComing Soon: Spring Issue
New members-area soon to be introduced The Spring issue of The Beckett Circle is on its way. We’re putting together a members section of our website, and when we’re done, we’ll let you know all about it! Thank you for your patience, and look forward to showing you the new issue!
Read MoreLondon Beckett Seminar: 27 June 2013
27 June 2013, 2pm-5pm · Birkbeck College, London Design: Rhys Tranter. Photograph: Getty Images. Beckett Studies: Tracing the GrainLondon Beckett SeminarBirkbeck, University of London Thursday 27 June, 2013 2–5pm, B04, Birkbeck College43 Gordon Square, London. WC1H 0PD Despite its frequent alignment with an aesthetic of ‘lessness’, Samuel Beckett’s work has remained insistently, even hyperactively, productive…
Read MoreSamuel Beckett In Our Time
Calder Bookshop, London · 31 May, 7pm From the Calder Bookshop and Theatre: ‘”Samuel Beckett in Our Time” looks both on the restrictions imposed on current productions of Beckett’s theatre and the ways in which contemporary directors push the limits of what might be called “authentic Beckett” to produce a Beckett for the 21st century,…
Read MoreNight Waves: Derval Tubridy talks to Lisa Dwan
Dwan on Not I at London’s Royal Court Theatre From BBC Radio 3: ‘The stage is in darkness except for a mouth visible about eight feet above stage level, “emitting” a stream-of-consciousness account of a life. Samuel Beckett’s ‘Not I’ received its European premiere 40 years ago at the Royal Court Theatre in London. To mark…
Read MoreSamuel Beckett Summer School 2013
Registration is now open Founded in 2011, the Samuel Beckett Summer School provides a unique experience for students, scholars and lovers of Beckett’s works. Each year we invite the world’s foremost Beckett scholars to present new lectures and seminars on all aspects of Beckett’s works. The School appeals to a wide range of Beckett enthusiasts…
Read MoreHerbert Blau 1926-2013
Renowned theatre director and theorist Herbert Blau. Photograph: Steven A. Gunther It is with great sadness that The Beckett Circle reports the passing of Herbert Blau, a friend and colleague. We share the sentiment of Mark Nixon, President of the Samuel Beckett Society: ‘Beckett Studies has lost an important scholar and theatre director, and he…
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