The Beckett International Foundation has just announced that the 35th annual BIF Seminar will take place at the Minghella Studios, the University of Reading, on 1 November 2025. Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Beckett’s production of Warten auf Godot at the Schiller-Theater in Berlin in 1975, Walter Asmus, who assisted Beckett on this production, will join the conference for a…
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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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“Try Again. Fail Again. Fail Better.” Success in Publishing The first seminar of 2025 from Samuel Beckett Early Career Scholars Initiative is a webinar on publishing, titled ‘Try again. Fail again. Fail Better: Success in Publishing.’ The session will share ideas on aspects of getting published in the discipline. The event will include contributions from Dr.…
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The latest title in Cambridge University Press Elements in Beckett Studies series has just been released. Carnivals of Ruin: Beckett, Ireland, and the Festival Form examines and contextualizes the long history of mounting festivals of Beckett’s work in the country of his birth. The summary suggests that the phenomenon of ‘festivalising’ Beckett in Ireland ‘might…
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The MAC Belfast • 21-22 June, 2017
Read MoreMinghella Building, University of Reading 10-11 April 2015 Staging Beckett and Contemporary Theatre and Performance Cultures Minghella Building, University of Reading 10-11 April 2015 Conference Call for Papers The Staging Beckett team is pleased to announce the project’s third and final conference, Staging Beckett and Contemporary Theatre and Performance Cultures. Building on the conversation begun…
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The Samuel Beckett Society 