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Read MoreStaging Beckett at the Margins
University of Chester, 11-12 September 2014 Samuel Beckett. Photograph: Reg Lancaster/Getty Images Call for Papers – Staging Beckett at the Margins Staging Beckett is a three year collaborative research project undertaken by the universities of Chester, Reading, and the Victoria & Albert Museum which started in September 2012, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research…
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Samuel Beckett, Echo’s Bones (30% Discount)
Published for the very first time by Faber & Faber
Read MoreStaging Beckett: Constructing Performance Histories
University of Reading · Inaugural Conference, 4-5 April 2014 4-5 April 2014, Minghella Building, University of Reading, Whiteknights Campus.ONLINE BOOKING IS NOW AVAILABLE. Staging Beckett’s Inaugural Conference on 4th – 5th April 2014 will focus on the history, documentation and analysis of Beckett’s theatre in performance in the UK, Ireland and internationally. Staging Beckett: The…
Read MoreSamuel Beckett: Roughs
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…
Read MoreStanley E Gontarski: Working with Beckett
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…
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