The death has taken place in Los Angeles of veteran actor and interpreter of Beckett’s work, Alan Mandell. In a long and varied career Mandell became most closely associated with Beckett following his involvement in a 1957 production of Waiting for Godot acted by inmates in San Quentin prison. He later took part in Beckett…
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The Journal of Beckett Studies has invited submissions in the form of a 300 word abstract for a special issue titled Beckett and Travel scheduled for publication in April 2027 as issue 36:1. Samuel Beckett was for all his life an inveterate traveller. Early travels to France, Florence and Kassel in the 1920s were followed…
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Gare St Lazare Ireland are to stage the complete version of Beckett’s prose work How it is at this year’s Venice Biennale in collaboration with Berggruen Arts & Culture. The production, directed by Judy Hegarty Lovett with design collaboration by artist Michael Craig Martin, draws on the three separate productions of parts I, II &…
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When asked by The Times in 1983 to set out his hopes for the coming year, Beckett replied by telegram with an economy worthy of his aesthetic: RESOLUTIONS COLON ZERO STOP PERIOD HOPES COLON ZERO STOP BECKETT By contrast, in 2026 we at the Samuel Beckett Society resolve to continue promoting his work and ideas,…
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As part of the Samuel Beckett: The German Room exhibition currently ongoing at the University of Regensburg in Germany, a one-day conference will take place on January 19 2026 featuring contributions from a fascinating group of noted scholars and practitioners. Taking part in the proceedings will be: Prof. Dr. Oliver Lubrich (University of Bern): ‘What…
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A new volume of collected essays dedicated to the uses of humour in Beckett’s work has just been released by Publicacions Universitat de València. Titled Samuel Beckett y el Humor the collection is edited by Society vice-president and noted Beckett scholar and translator, José Francisco Fernández of the University of Almería. Challenging the stereotypical image…
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A major exhibition on Samuel Beckett’s engagement with the medium of television is currently running at the Württembergischer Kunstverein in Stuttgart. Über Fernsehen, Beckett is a multimedia exhibition co-curated by Gerard Byrne and Judith Wilkinson. Inspired by Beckett’s direct engagement with the television channel Süddeutscher Rundfunk, the exhibition presents for the first time together all…
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The Chinese translation of The Letters of Samuel Beckett, Volume II, has finally been published by Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House in Changsha, China, after a slight delay due to the Covid pandemic. The translation project, which began five years ago, is part of a four-volume collection, with Volume I already published in December…
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A significant publication in the field of Beckett Studies in Spanish comes from Atuel Ediciones in Buenos Aires. El Monólogo Mudo: En torno a la obra de Samuel Beckett is a major new work by Beckett Society board member Lucas Margarit which offers a wide-ranging, eminently readable and intellectually satisfying, this book will attract new…
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Coming imminently from Edinburgh University Publishing is Samuel Beckett and Technology, edited by Galina Kiryushina, Einat Adar and Mark Nixon. Drawn from the conference of the same name which was held in Charles University, Prague in 2018, this new volume aims for ‘a comprehensive discussion of the role technology plays in shaping Beckett’s trademark aesthetics’ by…
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