Author Lydia Davis was drawn to the simplicity of Beckett’s work at an early age. From: Eat, Drink & Be Literary: Lydia Davis. Moderated by Deborah Treisman.
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New Beckett Research Centre in Reading to Inspire New Works
University of Reading: “Public events, new creative works, and funded fellowships around the work of Samuel Beckett will all be products of a new research centre dedicated to the Irish novelist, story writer, and playwright.
The Beckett Research Centre brings together academics at the University of Reading to promote world-leading research, teaching and creative projects based around the University’s internationally-recognised Beckett Archive.”
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The Hamish Canham (Applied) Prize – Free Prizegiving Presentation and Discussion
The free public event will take place in the 5th floor lecture theatre of The Tavistock Centre, London, on 13 December 2017. This year’s winner is Maryam Ghasemi, a former student of the Tavistock and Portman’s ‘Psychoanalytic Studies’ masters course. Her paper is titled, ‘Rockaby: Eros and Thanatos’, and is a psychoanalytic reading of the short play by Samuel Beckett.
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Samuel Beckett and Cinema Book Launch & Screening, 10 Dec 2017
In celebration of the publication of his book Samuel Beckett and Cinema, Anthony Paraskeva introduces Beckett’s Film and a rare screening of Comédie. Tickets for the event are free, but registration is essential.
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Samuel Beckett’s Annotated Copy of Waiting for Godot
The British Library: “This edition of Waiting for Godot is annotated by Beckett for the San Quentin Drama Workshop’s 1984 production, which Beckett supervised for ten days. The production was rehearsed at London’s Riverside Studios before opening at the Adelaide Arts Festival in Australia and later touring Europe. Directed by Walter Asmus, it starred Cluchey as Pozzo, Lawrence Held as Estragon, Bud Thorpe as Vladimir, J Pat Miller as Lucky and Louis Beckett Cluchey as A Boy.”
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Maxine Peake to star in Manchester production of Beckett’s Happy Days
The Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester is mounting Sarah Frankcom’s production of Happy Days from 25 May 2018 to 23 June 2018.
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Sam Shepard’s Final Novel: “Waiting for Godot in the Desert”
“Sam Shepard‘s final work, Spy of the First Person, has been published this week by Knopf. In an early review for USA Today, Jocelyn McClurg describes it as ‘an autobiographical work of fiction’ with a “fragmentary, disjointed narrative”. McClurg goes on to offer a pithy summary suggesting a debt to the Irish writer, Samuel Beckett, calling Shepard’s novel ‘Waiting for Godot in the desert.'”
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Gare St Lazare Ireland to perform extracts from Beckett’s Watt, First Love, and Other Texts at the Abbey Theatre
In exploring the use of music in Samuel Beckett’s work, Gare St Lazare Ireland have created an entirely original performance that defies easy description. A meditation, a celebration, an interpretation; Here All Night’s absence of linear narrative frees us to go where the words and music bring us and offers another way to access both Beckett’s world and our own.
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MLA 2018: Samuel Beckett and the Discourse of Psychoanalysis
At the 2018 MLA Annual Convention in New York City, Panel 672 will be devoted to ‘Samuel Beckett and the Discourse of Psychoanalysis’. The panel will include presentations by Daniela Caselli, Arka Chattopadhyay, and Laura Salisbury. It will take place on Saturday 6 January in Sheraton, Madison Square, and run from 5.15pm-6.30pm.
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Lisa Dwan to read from Beckett’s ‘Foirades/Fizzles’
Royal Academy of the Arts: “To coincide with our landmark exhibition, Jasper Johns: ‘Something Resembling Truth’, Lisa Dwan reads from Foirades/Fizzles, a stunning publication that juxtaposed Jasper Johns’ vibrant, energetic etchings with a series of Samuel Beckett’s short prose pieces, both in their original French and translated into English. They have been the subject of notable scholarly works and the collection is now considered to be one of the greatest artist’s books of the 20th century, having been exhibited internationally and lauded for its significant impact across the visual arts, literature, music and theatre.”
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