The 25th annual celebration of Samuel Beckett in Roussillon, the town where he spent so much of his time during the war and which had such an impact on his work, takes place from 26-30 July. The festival comprises an expanded and promising programme of performance and lectures from leading international interpreters of his work,…
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An announcement reaches us from Cambridge University Press of a significant new work of scholarship by Ulrika Maude of the University of Bristol. Titled Samuel Beckett and Medicine, the new work offers ‘the first sustained analysis of the Beckett’s abiding interest in medicine and medical discourses, advancing insights into the representation of illness, neurodiversity, disability,…
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A new publication from S.E. Gontarski has been announced by Edinburgh University Press in their Other Becketts series. Titled Beckett’s Co-authors the work, we are told, ‘takes a fresh look at Samuel Beckett and the business of authorship, especially his involvement in the complicated machinery of commercial theatre. Focusing particularly on Beckett’s first professionally produced play, Waiting…
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Beckett and Intertextuality 11th Annual Conference of the Samuel Beckett Society University of Antwerp, 20-22 May 2026 No sooner has the dust settled on the remarkable Beckett’s Relationships in Edinburgh than we look forward immediately to next year’s annual conference. The call for papers has just been announced and it reads as follows: In 2026…
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A new volume has just been launched by the Methuen Drama imprint at Bloomsbury. Co-edited by Trish McTighe, Céline Thobois-Gupta and Nicholas E. Johnson, Samuel Beckett and Ecology is described as ‘the first full-length book to investigate Samuel Beckett’s work through contemporary ecological thinking, offering a wide range of artistic and scholarly responses to the…
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Following on from the highly acclaimed and hugely successful Laethanta Sona, the Irish language translation of Happy Days, which was performed on Inis Oírr, the Aran Islands in the Summer of 2023, Company SJ returns to the west of Ireland to perform Beckett in Irish this July. Directed once again by Sarah Jane Scaife, who…
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A new publication from the Italian imprint Accademia University Press examines the impact of Beckett’s work in the area of digital theatre. Titled Rimediazioni: L’eredità beckettiana nel teatro digitale (1995-2009) (Remediations: Beckett’s Legacy in Digital Theatre (1995-2009)), the volume aims to ‘examine Samuel Beckett’s “ultramedial” legacy within the techno-theatrical landscape of the 1990s and early…
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The latest issue of the Journal of Beckett Studies, vol. 34 no. 1 (April 2025) is now available to download from Edinburgh University Press. Co-edited by Conor Carville and Pim Verhulst, this is a special issue titled ‘Beckett and Aesthetic Form’ comprising of a range of essays which examine ‘the continuing influence that Beckett still…
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As part of this year’s annual conference Beckett’s Relationships to be held at the University of Edinburgh in June, a special advanced screening of the award-winning documentary Earl. has been organised to which attendees are invited. Directed by Ty Kim, the film details the remarkable story of internationally renowned composer Earl Kim who was born…
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Two new translations of Beckett works have just been announced by Ediciones Godot in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Belacqua, a version of More Pricks than Kicks, and Los huesos de Eco [Echo’s Bones) are the work of Matías Battistón who is also responsible for the recent translation of the trilogy which was published by the same…
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