"...she encounters increasingly threatening modes of transportation: a cart, a bicycle, a car, and, finally, a train. The train is late and, when it arrives, it bears a grim revelation.
Beckett was big on stripping language to its essentials and the result, in Godot and other scripts, is a kind of pared-down, universal speech. In All That Fall, however, the characters are eccentrically Irish, and their florid rhythms give comic exaggeration to their despair."
CAST: Billie Whitelaw (Winnie), Leonard Fenton (Willie). Director: Samuel Beckett. The picture quality of this copy is very poor, but this important producti...
Seattle theater artists celebrate Samuel Beckett The Seattle Times When Samuel Beckett died in 1989, at age 83, he left behind a wealth of plays, novels, short stories, film and radio scripts.
The Nobel prize winner, Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) reads from one of his notable novels, Watt. From Poetry Foundation: The recordings were made in 1965 by La...
Writer: Samuel Beckett Director: Simon Dormandy Reviewer: Karl O’Doherty Once said of James Joyce’s book Ulysses: “If you just read it you won’t understand it, if you study it you won’t enjoy it.” Actually, something along those lines is probably...
Echo's Bones, finally published 80 years after it was written, is a wonderful, mind-bending curiosity that points teasingly both towards and away from Beckett's later development as a writer. By Nicholas Lezard
New Statesman Portrait of the artist as a young fan: Echo's Bones by Samuel Beckett New Statesman The year 1933 marked a low point in the life of the nascent Irish writer Samuel Beckett.
'Waiting For Godot' Strikes A Chord In Tehran WCAI At the National Theater in downtown Tehran, "Waiting for Godot" seems to have captured the mood of a country.
Here is a love poem, clear-eyed yet passionate, personal and impersonal in ways I admire: “Cascando” by Samuel Beckett. The poem’s intensity and misgivings are epitomized by the invented word at the end of its first stanza. “Wordshed,” on the model of “bloodshed,” generates associations of violent conflict; from another...
After performing Samuel Beckett’s mouth-only performance Not I, Lisa Dwan found a valuable guide in Beckett’s muse, Billie Whitelaw, who died this week.
CAST: Billie Whitelaw (Winnie), Leonard Fenton (Willie). Director: Samuel Beckett. The picture quality of this copy is very poor, but this important producti...
Poetry of Nobel laureates to be brought to life on stage Irish Times Actor and artistic director Cathal Quinn, actor Clodagh Nic Gabhann and dancer Megan Kennedy will perform in Everlasting Voices / Guthanna Síoraí, which centres on the work of...
Austrian actor Klaus Maria Brandauer's portrayal convulses Krapp's face with shock and repressed despairThe annual Happy Days International Beckett festival is now in its third year at Enniskillen in Co Fermanagh, the scene of Samuel Beckett's...
The original manuscript of Samuel Beckett's first published novel is about to go on public display for the first time. But what do the doodles on the pages reveal about Beckett's creative process?
In case you may not have noticed, the subtitle of Schlemiel-in-Theory is the “The Place Where the Laugh Laughs at the Laugh.” The notion of a laugh that laughs at a laugh comes from Samuel Becke...
Loss of Faith But Not Loss of Interest in God: 'The Theology of Samuel Beckett' PopMatters All the same, speaking of origins, as Calder reminds us, Beckett's pre-1950 fiction had not shaken off the impacts of his bourgeois Irish Protestant...
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