| 单词 | Samuel Beckett |
| 例句 | Samuel Beckett spliced his way merrily through such novels as MoIIoy and Malone Dies, thumbing his nose at the semicolon all the way: “There I am then, he leaves me, he’s in a hurry.” Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z The man who brought an opera to Britain's biggest rock festival is using the enigmatic plays of Samuel Beckett to lure tourists back to a town better known for one of Northern Ireland's worst 'Troubles'. Beckett link brings 'Happy Days' back to Northern Irish town 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z Critics raved about the show and its previously little-known writer, often invoking Samuel Beckett and Edward Albee. Lauded playwright Will Eno will get a major L.A. production at last, thanks to pal Rainn Wilson 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z The result is fervid and fearful; at times, “Pond” recalls works by Knut Hamsun and Samuel Beckett, in which characters are more obviously forced into states of isolation. Fiction That Will Make You Feel Pleasantly Insane 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z Samuel Beckett, an indefatigable letter writer, wrote in one that losing his dentures made eating difficult but, happily, didn’t impede his consumption of alcohol. Mourning the Letters That Will No Longer Be Written, and Remembering the Great Ones That Were 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z "How dare you even mention Samuel Beckett" was the gist of their attack, "when you're pumping out old-fashioned social realist novels that middle-class consumers want to buy". A life in books: Colm T?ib?n 2010-10-25T07:00:00Z But the writer he admired most was Samuel Beckett, who provided a model for the fusion of uncompromising form and unsparing content. The genius of Edward Albee and the inner voice that brought difficult truths to the stage 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z Then it ranges far afield, with “All That Fall,” a radio play by Samuel Beckett; programs by dance and puppet companies; and the series Sounds of India. Review: A White Light Festival to Re-energize Your Inner Self 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z He never saw it either, an avoidance unimpeded by his training at the Samuel Beckett Center at Trinity College, Dublin. No Waiting to Play This ‘Godot’ 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z The occasional mild quarrels that bubble up between Cookie and King-Lu have their own charming absurdity, as if Robert Altman were directing an episode of “The Odd Couple” written by Samuel Beckett. ‘First Cow’ Review: The Milk of Human Kindness 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z “Nothing is funnier than unhappiness,” Samuel Beckett wrote. Richard Lewis is not as miserable as he appears. But he’s still miserable. 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z An unfortunate aftereffect of the strictures enforced by Samuel Beckett during his lifetime, and now by his estate, on productions of “Waiting for Godot” is that every version seems more or less the same. Review | If you’re waiting for a new take on ‘Waiting for Godot,’ you’ll wait some more. 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z Authors such as Samuel Beckett or Julio Cortázar influence some of her stories, featuring amateur actors deadpanning their way through intricate, poetic scripts. Artist of the week 124: Keren Cytter 2011-02-04T17:31:26Z But when I was 14 my parents for some reason took me to see a production of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. I Was a Teenage Samuel Beckett: Or, My Literary Biography Problem 2012-01-11T17:47:41Z She refers to his late-life opera, a setting of Samuel Beckett’s “Endgame,” as a work that “clearly sums up our global situation.” Her Seattle Symphony debut drew blood. Now, this fierce violinist brings her fearless artistry back to town. 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z Instead, the names of writers are projected against the back wall as a voice reads aloud: Samuel Beckett, Mark Twain, Upton Sinclair, Grace Paley. Review: ‘NewYorknewyork @Astor Place,’ a Multilayered Production 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z As Samuel Beckett put it in “Endgame,” “You’re on earth, there’s no cure for that.” Electrified Rivers and Other Attempts to Save the Environment 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z Mr. Rosset took part in a staging of a short Samuel Beckett play, “Catastrophe.” The Last Days of Beckett’s, a Smoky New York Literary Salon 2023-04-01T04:00:00Z As the lights go up, we discover two women half-buried in sand — which is one more woman than stingy Samuel Beckett offered in “Happy Days.” Review: In ‘sandblasted,’ Seizing the Day. Also the Nose. 2022-02-27T05:00:00Z It is also a scene well known to aficionados of Samuel Beckett, borrowed from his novel “Molloy.” Review: Arcane Collective Turns a Beckett Trilogy Into Physical Theater 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z These are questions that might pertain to any of the works by Samuel Beckett at the Happy Days Enniskillen International Beckett Festival, which opened here last Thursday and runs through Monday. Northern Ireland Town Embraces Beckett Festival 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Some of the slides have handwritten captions that read like lines from Samuel Beckett: “Waiting,” “Waiting and watching for the train,” “Here it comes!” and “After the train passed.” Review | ‘The train was moving mournful slow’: Exhibit shows haunting photos of Bobby Kennedy’s final journey 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z Samuel Beckett used the “Merry Widow” waltz amid a scene of desolation as a concluding stroke in “Happy Days.” Review: Doom, Doom Everywhere (and Just a Drop of Joy) 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z Up until tonight, the succession part of “Succession” has been a lot like the Godot part of Samuel Beckett’s play “Waiting for Godot.” ‘Succession’ Season 4, Episode 3 Recap: Long Live the King 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z She often spoke of her work in the lingua franca of the Latin Quarter avant-garde, where she knew the great intellectuals of her day, including Samuel Beckett. Andrée Putman, Global Interior Designer, Dies at 87 2013-01-21T03:48:51Z She spent four days in bed in Paris with Samuel Beckett. When Collecting Wasn’t All About the Money 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z Samuel Beckett did a darn good job distilling the human condition with his words, “You must go on. I can't go on. I'll go on.” A “peaceaholic” and haunted soul, Padraig O’Malley is the subject of “Peacemaker” 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z Meat Loaf says his relationship with Steinman is more like that of an actor with a playwright than a singer with a songwriter; he even compares Steinman with Samuel Beckett. Meat Loaf's farewell tour: 'This time, they're not going to rope me back in' 2013-04-02T17:23:16Z In this memoir, Bair revisits her early work: her National Book Award-winning life of Samuel Beckett and a study of her great heroine, Simone de Beauvoir. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z He was unconcerned that his name wasn’t well known, choosing instead to inhabit characters onstage, whether in comedies such as Michael Frayn’s “Noises Off” or classics such as Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot.” Brian Bedford, Tony Award-winning actor, dies at 80 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z It was as if he felt irresistibly goaded to turn Samuel Beckett’s “Krapp’s Last Tape” into thousands of hours of videotape. The Legacy of David Letterman, Icon of the Grizzled Generation 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z Both the plays in which this British actor, who died on Wednesday at the age of 82, was appearing on those occasions were by Samuel Beckett, “Eh Joe” and “All That Fall.” Onstage, Michael Gambon’s Depth Transcended the Unspoken 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z I'm with Samuel Beckett on this one: if you don't keep trying and failing, and failing better, nothing would ever move forward on the stage. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2010-07-16T17:14:00Z As this phrase is the title of Samuel Beckett’s 1961 play, and also of a new Beckett festival in this small town, he might well have been joking. Critic’s Notebook: Happy Days Beckett Festival Arrives in Northern Ireland 2012-08-27T21:49:32Z The Long Wharf Theater is presenting Samuel Beckett’s “Endgame,” one of his seminal, bleakly comic but highly stylized dramatic emblems of the human predicament. Suspending Disbelief in a Savage ‘Endgame’ 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z No, my memory is she said, 'Don't you have an appointment today with Samuel Beckett?' Dustin Hoffman: facing down my demons 2012-12-14T23:00:18Z He shared the prize with Samuel Beckett, with whom he represents, in Brian Dillon's words, the "obscure conduit ... from modernism to postmodernism". A brief survey of the short story part 27: Jorge Luis Borges 2010-07-22T10:59:00Z Subjects range from the early development of Pinter's play The Birthday Party to the rise of the then unknown playwright Samuel Beckett. Library acquires Pinter letters 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z A handful of works inspired by Beckett have included “Samuel Beckett: What Is the Word,” based on a late poem. A 92-Year-Old Composer’s First Opera Is His ‘Endgame’ 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z This was preceded by a Samuel Beckett play. Mark Morris Dance Group Debuts ‘Water’ in Its Element 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z The head-scratching ghost of Samuel Beckett, and the more sinister spirit of Harold Pinter, haunt “Ballyturk,” which traffics unapologetically in literature’s biggest theme. Review: A Fantasy Town Builds a Wall Against Time in ‘Ballyturk’ 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z “The Truth” is much better whenever it settles, less self-consciously, into the terrain of tragicomedy, the bleak but funny landscape of Samuel Beckett’s forlorn tramps, marking time while awaiting their inevitable ends. | 'The Truth: A Tragedy': Cynthia Hopkins Excavates Her Father?s Life 2010-05-14T04:08:00Z Samuel Beckett, if you can believe it, saw himself as an airline pilot manqué. Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life by Adam Phillips – review 2012-06-13T07:00:01Z Throughout a decades-long career, the playwright and author Jon Fosse has inspired comparisons to Henrik Ibsen, Samuel Beckett and even George Harrison from the Beatles. Where to start? A guide to Fosse’s work. 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z The book calls to mind the absurd, grim comedy of Thomas Bernhard, Samuel Beckett, or Withnail and I. But it's also a joyous book. Not the Booker prize 2011: the shortlist 2011-08-18T09:45:51Z For Samuel Beckett, it was never words and music, no matter that they were personified in his 1962 radio play, “Words and Music.” L.A. Phil's revelatory pairing of Beckett and Schubert, 'Night and Dreams' 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z In his spectral wit, Donleavy could resemble Samuel Beckett; in his delighted lustiness, Henry Miller; in his damp and scattered wordplay, James Joyce. A Toast for J. P. Donleavy 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z Though there are inexpensive novels by Oscar Wilde and Samuel Beckett and coffee table reads on grand countryside estates, many of the picks veer toward the rare, like the first New York edition of “Ulysses.” In Dublin, Shopping Away From the Crowds 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z “Waiting for Godot” may be better known, but for unnerving visual impact, nothing tops Samuel Beckett’s “Happy Days.” Review | ‘The Performance’ unfolds over the course of a two-act play. The fact that it works is a miracle. 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z The literary critic Terry Eagleton suggested that Samuel Beckett’s “starved words, gaunt bodies and sterile landscapes” were informed by memories of the Irish famine. Jacques Pépin and the Art of Making the Most of It 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z Hardly the type of expression associated with some of Sontag’s heroes, such as Samuel Beckett or Simone Weil. The New Sensibility of Susan Sontag & Tom Wolfe: The “dark lady” and the man in white were an unlikely pair, but both were looking to liberate American culture 2015-10-03T04:00:00Z It was a slightly grim but gentle portrait of humanity passing by on the journey through life, its tone a subtle mix of Woody Allen and Samuel Beckett. Waiting for a Masterpiece from Esa-Pekka Salonen 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z Moving back and forth through memories, invoking her literary hero Samuel Beckett, it is a meditation on mortality and meaning from the edge of the abyss. Remembering author, teacher and critic Judith Kitchen 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z Such an approach would not seem ideal for “King Lear,” which as a study of “unaccommodated man” in a black-hole universe anticipates the bleakness of Samuel Beckett. Theater Review: ‘King Lear’ in an Enchanted Setting Along the Hudson River 2013-08-18T21:51:45Z He continued his stage acting career in England after the war and during the 1950s met and married the actress Billie Whitelaw, who became known for her work with Samuel Beckett. Peter Vaughan, Maester Aemon in ‘Game of Thrones,’ Dies at 93 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z When he founded the Royal Shakespeare Company as a 29-year-old iconoclast, he had already introduced Samuel Beckett to the English-speaking world. Remembering theater director and Royal Shakespeare founder Peter Hall, who turned language into life 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z But beneath the consumerist middle-class trappings that usually adorn Mr. Ayckbourn’s work, there also lurks the shadow of Samuel Beckett, for whom wild laughter was always an appropriate response to the bleak human condition. ‘Ayckbourn Ensemble,’ 3 Offerings by the British Playwright 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z Hamm, the volatile, unseeing tyrant in Samuel Beckett’s “Endgame,” has ordered the creation of this cloth companion: one more creature to shrink from him in the dreary, age-worn room that is his realm. ‘Endgame’ Review: A Laugh at the Apocalypse? 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z The show also lays before us a major Samuel Beckett work rarely produced here, due to its daunting degree of difficulty. In 'Happy Days,' character is buried in sand, wrestling with life 2012-03-14T20:22:04Z The only recent threat to this consensus arrived, pre-election, in the shape of Nick Clegg, confessing his passion for the fine medium-pace bowler and author, Samuel Beckett. Why do we sneer at Sarko for trying to improve himself? 2011-07-23T23:07:20Z But where would literature be without James Joyce or Samuel Beckett or Gertrude Stein? It’s good to be pretentious! 2012-06-28T00:00:00Z Four curious characters eke out a meager existence in a metaphorical, metaphysical realm in Samuel Beckett's classic Absurdist drama. Theatrical works to see in spring: From 'A Gentleman's Guide' to John Leguizamo to 'Shakespeare 400' 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z “I had no idea I’d be working with an actor who was as into Samuel Beckett as he was,” Reo said. In a New ‘Night Court,’ John Larroquette Plays Defense 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z And after seven hours of such soundings, you can be forgiven for thinking of Afghanistan as something Samuel Beckett, in a really down mood, might have come up with. | 'The Great Game: Afghanistan' : The Curtain Rises: Enter, Reality 2010-12-08T03:05:00Z None of the 2,300 words tumbling at a rate of about 200 per minute from the disembodied mouth at the center of Samuel Beckett’s “Not I” is “biscuit.” When Disability Isn’t a Special Need but a Special Skill 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z A trouper to his bones, he continued to work, appearing in television commercials, teenage beach-party movies and Samuel Beckett’s “Film,” among other projects. Review: ‘The Great Buster’ Brings a Deadpan Genius Back to Life 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z Alastair Stewart ran the first debate like Samuel Beckett's Play, in which three figures in urns are forced eternally to tell and retell their stories to a brutal inquisitor. Stage-managed? Theatre and the leaders' debate 2010-04-29T14:36:00Z Playing Mary makes perfect sense for Shaw, who specializes in powerful, heart-pounding works, from a modern-dress "Medea" to Samuel Beckett's "Happy Days" to performing Samuel Taylor Coleridge's epic poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." Fiona Shaw plays the Virgin Mary with 'no agenda' 2013-04-12T13:00:14Z The Table Like Samuel Beckett and Yves Klein, who are cited as influences, this is a show that plays around with form. The Table ? review 2011-08-11T12:06:26Z In Ritchie’s office is a large framed photograph of Samuel Beckett, whom he resembles in some indefinable but startling way. As Center Theatre Group turns 50, an artistic director plots the second act (Hint: Think Hollywood) 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z The long list of playwrights and composers looking to Noh for inspiration includes Samuel Beckett, Harry Partch, Bertolt Brecht and Benjamin Britten. Japanese Theater Inspires a New Opera of Celestial Textures 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z Thank heavens he postponed any plans for retirement to not only star in but also direct the impeccable production of Samuel Beckett’s “Endgame” that opened Sunday at the Kirk Douglas Theatre. A triumphant ‘Endgame’ for Beckett veteran Alan Mandell 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z In league with Antonin Artaud, Samuel Beckett and other theater visionaries, Brook shifted modern drama away from the illusion of detailed realism. Peter Brook on his ‘Suit,’ tailored for its Seattle dates 2014-03-12T19:32:39Z In his 1983 novella “Worstward Ho,” Samuel Beckett wrote his most famous words: “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” A History of Medical Innovation That Doesn’t Ignore the Side Effects 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z Like the protagonist of Samuel Beckett’s “Krapp’s Last Tape,” Bluebeard is trapped by his memories, stopping the tape to stop time, replaying passages, lines or words or pausing the narrative for long moments. When Pina Bausch Made Tanz Into Tanztheater 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z She had distinguished herself on Broadway in Edward Albee’s sardonic “American Dream,” in which she played Mommy, the cartoonishly overwhelming wife of a spineless husband, and in Samuel Beckett’s bitterly comic “Happy Days.” Sada Thompson, Actress Known for Maternal Roles, Dies at 83 2011-05-06T04:38:16Z Mr. Friel wrote more than a dozen plays in the next 15 years and was acclaimed as Ireland’s finest playwright since Sean O’Casey and Samuel Beckett. Brian Friel, playwright who wrote about his native Ireland, dies at 86 2015-10-03T04:00:00Z The artist is a fan of Samuel Beckett, whose novels influenced a new work for the Geffen called “Migrant.” William Pope.L Makes Statements From the Fringes 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z I called it the “Samuel Beckett Performance,” where everything was gong to be minimal, but each minimal thing you do has to mean something. “My entire life I’ve been trying to find an identity something bigger than me.” Singer Nakhane Touré on his impressive screen debut in “The Wound” 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z I see a lot of Samuel Beckett in Harrison’s sensibility. Review | The acclaimed, exasperating sculptures of Rachel Harrison get a star turn at the Whitney Museum 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z The festival’s other theater offerings include stagings of Samuel Beckett’s “Embers” by Pan Pan Theater and Pirandello’s “Six Characters in Search of An Author” by Théâtre de la Ville. WikiLeaks-Inspired Recital Among Next Wave Festival Premieres 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot” I saw a production in college that wasn’t very good. Mark Duplass Can’t Get Enough of ‘Rocky II’ 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z It's almost as if Sam Shepard has spent his life circling around Samuel Beckett. Sam Shepard bares his soul 2010-03-21T00:05:00Z The effect is of an episode of “Black Mirror,” the omnibus sci-fi series, scripted by Samuel Beckett. Review: The Private Dystopias of ‘Arlington’ and ‘Rooms’ 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z To this day, for example, I will read just about anything by or about Vladimir Nabokov, Samuel Beckett and Jorge Luis Borges. Review: ‘Georgie & Elsa: Jorge Luis Borges and His Wife, the Untold Story’ Surely anyone who has any critical interest in the areas has to find a way of distinguishing between Samuel Beckett and Agatha Christie. James Kelman 2012-07-29T19:00:01Z So Franz Schubert and Samuel Beckett don’t immediately appear to have all that much in common. Finding the music in Beckett, the drama in Schubert: Let the L.A. Phil's experiment begin 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z This word-drunk production — from the Druid Theater Company of Galway, Ireland — dares to suggest what it might have been like had Samuel Beckett, instead of James Joyce, decided to reinvent Homer’s “Odyssey.” Theater Review: In Far Over Their Heads: Life at the Pool?s Bottom 2010-10-27T04:30:00Z Waiting for inspiration ... which politician looks up to Samuel Beckett? Michael Billington's 2010 theatre quiz 2011-01-04T11:43:10Z But Kane’s obvious stylistic forerunner is Samuel Beckett, though she never veils desolation in allegorical trees or ashcans. Review: ‘Crave’ Is a Timely Ticket for a World on Fire 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z His jokes, like Samuel Beckett's, are cracked out of necessity. Comedy gold: Simon Amstell's Do Nothing 2012-11-15T12:00:55Z As an actor deeply steeped in the traditions of clowns, according to both the commedia dell’arte and Samuel Beckett, Mr. Irwin delivers on that promise. | 'King Lear' : ?King Lear? at the Public Theater - Review 2011-11-09T03:01:30Z Photographer Jane Bown, known for her portraits of famous people including the Queen, the Beatles and Samuel Beckett, has died aged 89. Photographer Jane Bown dies aged 89 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z At one point I was supposed to meet Samuel Beckett in a bar in Paris to do a revival of Godot, and I stood him up. Dustin Hoffman: facing down my demons 2012-12-14T23:00:18Z Some of Petri’s essays spoof classic works like “Waiting for Pivot: A GOP Tragicomedy” based on Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot,” and “The Privilege Tree” based on Shel Silverstein’s “The Giving Tree.” Review | ‘Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why’ takes hilarious aim at the current administration. But it’s not all fun and games. 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z By now she had met the Irish playwright, Samuel Beckett, with whom she would enjoy a 26-year professional relationship. Obituary: Billie Whitelaw 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z "Pinter & Beckett: 'Landscape' and 'Eh Joe,' " written by Harold Pinter and Samuel Beckett, through May 29, New City Theater, www.brownpapertickets.com In the late Shel Silverstein's universe, it usually takes two to create a full-blown obsession. Reviews: 'Pinter and Beckett,' 'An Adult Evening of Shel Silverstein' 2010-05-20T20:13:00Z James Joyce is your father and Samuel Beckett is one of your boyfriends. | 'Lucia?s Chapters of Coming Forth by Day': ?Lucia?s Chapters? at Mabou Mines - Review 2011-09-20T22:31:55Z “I was in my early teens when I first laid eyes on a page of Samuel Beckett,” she writes. For Lydia Davis, Language Is Character 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z "Can you imagine any US political candidate giving Samuel Beckett as his hero, then justifying it like so?" wondered one tweet. Books and the ballot box 2010-05-04T10:00:00Z The tale of my giving up was Samuel Beckett’s homily writ huge: ever tried? Smoked out: why me and a million other people have given up nicotine in 2020 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z I tell him he reminds me of Samuel Beckett. Scott Walker: Brother beyond 2012-11-23T19:28:49Z The one that mattered most was from Samuel Beckett’s “Malone Dies.” Larry Kramer Leaves No Score Unsettled in an Epic’s Finale 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z Imagine a Samuel Beckett play staged inside a ponderous metal box. At Studio Theatre, the elevator operator runs this show 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z An entire lifetime, in all its rushing and monotonous variety, is telescoped into a breathless 15 minutes in Samuel Beckett’s primal cry of a monologue, delivered by a disembodied mouth. 10 Monologues That Make Solo Music 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z There's an obvious similarity in the existential dilemmas of these men and the two tramps in "Waiting for Godot," by Pinter's mentor and model, Samuel Beckett. Theater review: 2 excellent one-acts open ACT Pinter Festival 2012-07-30T22:51:02Z As Samuel Beckett wrote, in a letter to Pinter, it "wrings the heart". Betrayal – review 2012-05-26T23:05:37Z Tuning up ... detail from Samuel Beckett's drafts for Murphy. Samuel Beckett manuscript offers 'intimate' look into his mind 2013-06-04T13:28:16Z Somehow I group Seuss with Samuel Beckett and Raymond Carver and Charles Schulz and the Picasso of those famous vanishing bull lithographs: less is more, if the heart is in the right place. George Saunders's Humor 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z Ruby Cohn, a theater scholar who espied the genius of Samuel Beckett early on in Paris and became a leading authority on his work as well as his friend, died on Oct. Ruby Cohn, Theater Scholar and Beckett Authority, Dies at 89 2011-10-30T23:41:58Z Middletown' Will Eno — a writer who seems to combine elements of Samuel Beckett and Thornton Wilder — is one of the most interesting emerging playwrights in America. Summer stage is heating up 2011-05-27T14:25:14Z Indeed, we know he acted at university and that Samuel Beckett is his hero. Arts and the new coalition government 2010-05-21T23:07:00Z No. On that basis you would say that a five-hour epic that's truly ghastly must be of more value than Samuel Beckett's Breath, which lasts 30 seconds. The insiders' guide to the arts 2010-10-17T20:31:00Z From Joseph Conrad to Samuel Beckett, some writers have found their voices in a language not their mother tongue. Académie Française Honor Highlights Fluid National Allegiances Among Writers 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z Don engaged him with a series of questions about Samuel Beckett, and after a while I stood up and said I had to rest. T Magazine: Vexed in Venice 2011-12-01T00:10:20Z Also on the far side of the Atlantic, George Hunka is currently considering the ongoing success of playwright Samuel Beckett and painter Mark Rothko. Noises off: Memo to budding theatre professionals ? know what your 'why' is 2011-03-25T16:21:02Z In the 1960s, Noel introduced modern playwrights like Samuel Beckett and Eugene Ionesco to the Southern California theater scene at the La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art. Founder of San Diego's Old Globe theater dies 2010-04-06T03:19:00Z Among his subjects were playwright Samuel Beckett, fellow artists Picasso and Francis Bacon, author James Joyce, poets W.B. Irish artist Louis le Brocquy dies in Dublin at 95 2012-04-25T16:45:07Z And finally, there's the work of such theatrical poets as Samuel Beckett and Sarah Kane; possibly two of the most influential dramatists of the last half-century. Poetry in Motion: why poetic drama has something new to say 2011-03-02T13:10:18Z The original handwritten manuscript of Samuel Beckett's first published novel is about to go on public display for the first time. Why did Samuel Beckett draw doodles? 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z Have you ever paused to consider the spiritual and physical affinities between the desolate universe of Samuel Beckett and the wacky world of vintage Warner Brothers cartoons? Review: A ‘Waiting for Godot’ as Comically Futile as a Looney Tune 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z Watch one of her sets and you're likely to be bombarded by references to Samuel Beckett and TS Eliot, or invited to consider which philosophers would make the most suitable guests at a dinner party. This week's new comedy 2012-02-11T00:05:00Z A maestro of linguistic control of international caliber, to be sure, on a par with his fellows in the pantheons of modernism and absurdism, Ireland’s Samuel Beckett and Britain’s Harold Pinter. Edward Albee, the last of the giants 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z The most recent work, also in neon, quotes from the Samuel Beckett characters who await Godot and includes, by way of a reproduction, a night sky by Caspar David Friedrich. What?s Blooming Indoors 2011-04-21T22:57:20Z While the play is firmly naturalistic in its details, Mr. Fugard was clearly writing under the influence of Samuel Beckett, and in this staging he emphasizes the affinity in this culminating scene. Theater Review: ?Blood Knot,? by Athol Fugard, at Signature Theater 2012-02-17T03:00:00Z Similarly, Alfred Hitchcock said that a good story was "life, with the dull parts taken out" and, while Samuel Beckett might disagree, dialogue follows the same pattern: it's human conversation without the ums and ahs. The unreal art of realistic dialogue 2010-03-18T10:54:00Z Samuel Beckett, one of Mr. Havel’s admirers, wrote the play “Catastrophe” for him. Vaclav Havel: An Intertwining of Artist and Politician 2011-12-19T10:10:08Z And it will be the second year of the Circumbendibus program, which adapts nontraditional texts, including a work by Samuel Beckett to coincide with a citywide Beckett Festival this fall. Book-It Rep announces 2014-15 season of plays 2014-04-28T03:27:55Z I immersed myself in rereading book after book by Samuel Beckett, Émile Zola, Franz Kafka and Albert Camus. How Comrade Ilizarov saved my leg 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z Comparisons with James Joyce and Samuel Beckett have become commonplace. James Kelman 2012-07-29T19:00:01Z Instead they were looking at the theatrical work of Samuel Beckett. A new discovery for science and art: the cultural divide is all in the mind 2012-11-24T16:02:57Z Samuel Beckett once declined an interview because, he said, he had “no views to inter.” Russian Women Speak Up About the Front Lines and the Home Front 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z His “White Noise” would seem to be partly inspired by Samuel Beckett’s great monologue “Not I,” in which a disembodied mouth delivers a lifetime-spanning roster of contradictory impressions before being subsumed into darkness. Review: The Lists We Live by in Daniel Fish’s ‘White Noise’ 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z Deeply influenced by Samuel Beckett, his enigmatic language and visions in turn impacted plays by David Mamet, Sarah Kane and many others. A passion for Pinter inspires 'Fortnightly' series at ACT 2011-06-22T19:33:05Z In this spirit, commissions made use of works by Samuel Beckett, Tennessee Williams, Ingmar Bergman and Mozart. Critic?s Notebook: Performa 11 Is Bigger but Not Better 2011-11-25T23:51:33Z I'm delighted to learn that Nick Clegg's literary hero is Samuel Beckett. Election 2010: What happened to the arts? 2010-05-03T12:04:00Z Can we compare him to gumbo, his style a stew of influences encompassing such unlikely pairings as William Faulkner and Samuel Beckett, Norman Mailer and Grace Paley, William Trevor and Donald Barthelme? Padgett Powell Goes Snake Chasing 2021-11-06T04:00:00Z As Samuel Beckett wrote, “I can’t go on, I must go on.” Holy Motors: Leos Carax Flirts with a Cinematic Masterpiece 2012-10-19T15:07:14Z It's hard to find a less consoling statement in art, beyond Samuel Beckett's bleakest work. Royal Liverpool Philharmonic/Petrenko – review 2013-05-05T15:50:50Z She then graduated, with effortless and extraordinary ease, to the classics and to the work of Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter and David Hare. Anna Massey 2011-07-04T18:30:00Z Samuel Beckett and Pablo Picasso sit passively at the dinner table breathing in the scent of Chanel No 5 as Miss Hellman manipulates the world to her bidding. Tell-All by Chuck Palahniuk 2010-07-26T21:30:00Z You stood up Samuel Beckett, I ask, outraged. Dustin Hoffman: facing down my demons 2012-12-14T23:00:18Z When actors with access to its author, Samuel Beckett, demanded explanations from him, he usually professed himself helpless to answer. Review: ‘Waiting for Godot’ in the Bleakest Zoom Room Ever 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z For all its high-flying zaniness the movie has the sting of life, and its humor feels dredged up from the same dark, boggy place from which Samuel Beckett extracted his yuks. Movie Review: ‘Silver Linings Playbook,’ Directed by David O. Russell 2012-11-15T20:57:57Z He introduced himself suddenly and with a bang, in 1959, when his first produced play, “The Zoo Story,” opened in Berlin on a double bill with Samuel Beckett’s “Krapp’s Last Tape.” Edward Albee, Trenchant Playwright Who Laid Bare Modern Life, Dies at 88 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Her doctoral dissertation at Washington University in St. Louis became her first book, “Samuel Beckett: The Comic Gamut,” published in 1962. Ruby Cohn, Theater Scholar and Beckett Authority, Dies at 89 2011-10-30T23:41:58Z “The playwright and poet Samuel Beckett once said that writing ‘Waiting for Godot’ was a way of finding ‘a form that accommodates the mess.’ Claudia Rankine on the Ways Race Haunts Her Imagination, and America’s 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z Arena presented classic plays by Shakespeare and George Bernard Shaw while also embracing contemporary works by Arthur Miller, Jean Anouilh and Samuel Beckett. Zelda Fichandler, Arena Stage co-founder and matriarch of regional-theater movement, dies at 91 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z When Samuel Beckett died, there was general agreement that a 20th-century master had passed from the scene. Is there a 'number one' writer today? 2010-09-20T14:12:00Z Playwright Samuel Beckett was famously influenced by music-hall comedy, for instance. British music hall show onstage in Kensington He would go home, read Thomas Pynchon or Samuel Beckett and write into the early hours. M John Harrison: a life in writing 2012-07-20T21:55:12Z Editor Courtney Hodell says the book will include poems, reflections on Arthur Miller and other men in her life, and references to works by Samuel Beckett, James Joyce and numerous other authors. Marilyn Monroe writings to be released this fall 2010-04-27T17:55:00Z A number focus in particular on Samuel Beckett, who became good friends with Pinter and whose play ‘‘Waiting For Godot’’ Pinter admits in an early letter to not having read. British Library Acquires Letters of Harold Pinter 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z The meaning of the play, however, is swathed in enough metaphor to suffocate Samuel Beckett. Review: Alexandra Collier’s ‘Underland’ Mines Rich Performances 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z Samuel Beckett had it right when he said “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” Confirm or Deny: David Duchovny 2018-04-28T04:00:00Z When we get momentarily baffled in a Smith novel, we don’t, like Samuel Beckett’s Vladimir and Estragon, sit and scratch our hindquarters. Ali Smith’s ‘Summer’ Ends a Funny, Political, Very Up-to-Date Quartet 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z These astonishing works marry the legacies of Eugene O’Neill and Samuel Beckett in scorching dramas that sound like absolutely no one else’s and yet are rooted in theatrical tradition. The real Sam Shepard behind the man we think we know 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z There is a glancing critical reference here to Samuel Beckett, and pokes at the inanity of reading profound meaning into "artistic" acts that are nothing more than adult child's play. Theater review: Irony, whimsy, isolation, tedium in French troupe's 'L'Effet de Serge' 2011-04-15T20:21:04Z What Lee is banging on about is the difference between comedy as art and as entertainment, the difference between Samuel Beckett and Andrew Lloyd Webber. Should standup comedians write all their own jokes? 2013-07-19T15:25:57Z A visiting production from Ireland, Samuel Beckett’s absurdist masterpiece, “Waiting for Godot,” is another scheduled war horse, along with a revival of — wait for it — Lerner and Loewe’s 1960 King Arthur musical, “Camelot.” How will the Shakespeare show go on without Kahn? 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z Ms. O’Brien has a taste for excellent writing and excellent conversation, and among the writers who circulate through this memoir are Samuel Beckett, Philip Roth, Harold Pinter and Günter Grass. Books of The Times: Edna O’Brien’s Memoir, ‘Country Girl’ 2013-04-29T19:31:34Z He writes the music for his operas just as Samuel Beckett wrote plays, straight through from beginning to end in a single draft with practically no corrections. Tony Kushner's Angels in America: the opera 2010-03-22T21:35:00Z Samuel Beckett, who rigged nothing, fashioned for himself and for us a voice, Malone's, at once wistful and wiry: 'Yes, there is no good pretending, it is hard to leave everything.' Amour – review 2012-11-18T00:06:00Z Morton Feldman and Samuel Beckett claimed not to like opera, but they made one anyway, collaborating on “Neither” for the Rome Opera in 1977. Review: Contortions en Route to Resurrection in Shen Wei’s ‘Neither’ 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z "Previously, writers would work as taxi drivers, clerks, secretaries and waiters to make a living. Samuel Beckett and many others lived like this. It was hard - but they fed themselves, from a literary perspective." 7 reasons why the winner of the Nobel Prize in literature is a Belarusian you don't know 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Columbia, who appears to be in his 70s and looks like William Hurt preparing to play Samuel Beckett, speaks of his working class background and a family history that includes abuse and murder. ‘Last Night in New York’ Review: A Social Chronicler Explains Himself 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z But it squanders them with “We care why?” moments such as Thom imagining himself as Samuel Beckett, never writing his great works because of the pressures of paying the monthly nut on his suburban lifestyle. Review: Happyish Suffers from First-World Problems 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z Along with teaching, he directed Shakespeare in the spring, and every year he would perform at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, doing plays by A. R. Gurney and Samuel Beckett. Will Sheff: The First Time an Adult Took Me Seriously 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z The resulting impression is often one of watching some Bizarro version of a Samuel Beckett play. Are You Strapped In for ‘The Patient’? The Therapist Is. 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z The Audible effort is a descendant of the old-fashioned radio drama, which began in the 1920s and featured work from playwrights including Samuel Beckett and Arthur Miller and directors such as Orson Welles. Radio Drama for a Podcast Age: How Amazon’s Audible Moved Into Theater 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z In 1954 Arikha decided to settle in Paris, his home for the rest of his life, partly at the instigation of his friend the dramatist Samuel Beckett, whom he first met backstage in a theatre. Avigdor Arikha obituary 2010-05-11T18:08:00Z Samuel Beckett and Buster Keaton surely possess two of the most photogenic faces of the 20th century, contrasting images of haplessness and stoicism. Review: ‘Notfilm’ Tells How Beckett and Keaton Collaborated 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Make that a Samuel Beckett who understood the desperate-swinger vibes that a recording of Herb Alpert’s “Spanish Flea” would automatically set off. Theater Review: In Far Over Their Heads: Life at the Pool?s Bottom 2010-10-27T04:30:00Z Famous for her roles on stage and screen, she was noted for her close collaboration with playwright Samuel Beckett, who described her as a perfect actress. Famous faces who died in 2014 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z “How I Met Your Mother” did an entire farcical brunch episode eight years ago, and in 2012, “Portlandia” put the nail in its coffin in a brunch-themed episode straight out of Samuel Beckett. Leave brunch alone! 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Two bored salesfolk fiddle with their phones in the back, the entire tableau resembling a lost work by Samuel Beckett. How do we feel about the mall these days? 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z He often captured the playwright Samuel Beckett, a close friend in Paris. Avigdor Arikha, Israeli Artist of the Everyday, Dies at 81 2010-05-01T04:48:00Z In 2007, she received the Samuel Beckett award for writing and directing her own play, The Terrific Electric. Who is Benedict Cumberbatch's Fiancée Sophie Hunter? 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z O/R's plans for Evergreen include releasing its books, like Samuel Beckett's "Stirring Still," and digitizing the archives to find the material for more books to come. The Evergreen Review to be rebooted by O/R Books 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z It was at Studio Theatre that, as a child, he saw his first professional production, a bravura staging of “Waiting for Godot” with African American actors playing Samuel Beckett’s famous existential clowns. A playwright who’s at ease with causing discomfort 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z As “the globe-trotting muse of writers as various as Samuel Beckett and Arthur Kopit,” she captured the hearts of a generation. Review | Anne Enright is the real star of her brilliant new novel ‘Actress’ 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z A command of the speaking power of silence is almost a prerequisite for performing the plays of Samuel Beckett. | 'Krapp?s Last Tape': ?Krapp?s Last Tape,? With John Hurt, at BAM - Review 2011-12-09T03:01:00Z The papers include photos, drawings and correspondence with theatre giants including Samuel Beckett, Laurence Olivier and Tennessee Williams. V&A acquires Peter Brook archive 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z This is interesting, but of no account when reading him, because, like James Joyce and Samuel Beckett, his work belongs to the world. Profile: James Kelman 2011-03-30T11:53:23Z His production of Samuel Beckett’s tale of two existentially challenged tramps, at the Arts Theater, may have left some scratching their heads in anger and exasperation. 5 Shows That Sealed Peter Hall’s Stage Legacy 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z This is an actor who last year transformed Samuel Beckett’s enervated Gogo, from the Druid’s “Waiting for Godot,” into the human equivalent of a pogo stick. Review: All the World’s a Grave in the Druid ‘Richard III’ 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z Its popularity prompted an essay in Slate subtitled “How Samuel Beckett became Silicon Valley’s life coach.” ‘Echo’s Bones,’ a Beckett Short Story Rediscovered 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z A representative from the Broad Stage, where this bill of three short plays by Irish playwright Samuel Beckett opened Thursday, went to inordinate lengths to stave off a wave of night terrors in the audience. If you're going to see Beckett's late short plays, Lisa Dwan is the actress you want to perform them 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z The venerable English publishing house Faber & Faber — the longtime home of writers including T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, William Golding, Samuel Beckett, Philip Larkin and Ted Hughes — is celebrating its 90th anniversary. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z “The intellectual climate has been typhooned by Mr. Samuel Beckett,” Pinter wrote in one letter. British Library Acquires Letters of Harold Pinter 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z "I'm trying to turn it from an action film into Samuel Beckett's Endgame," Beaufoy told me then, laughing. On the set of 127 Hours, the first big film of 2011 2011-01-01T00:04:00Z Lacy’s style of composing and arranging owed something to Monk, Ellington and Samuel Beckett. CareFusion, Vision, Undead and Other Jazz Fests 2010-06-10T22:15:00Z Those are the words of Samuel Beckett, contemplating the notion of writing for radio in a 1956 letter. The Week Ahead: Dec. 16 — 22 2012-12-16T07:40:07Z Laughs are always erupting, like bubbles from the depths of tar pits, in the writings of Samuel Beckett. | 'Fragments': ?Fragments? at Baryshnikov Arts Center - Review 2011-11-15T22:05:03Z Most importantly, he found his calling, collaborating with a friend on scripts based on a mash-up of the Marx Brothers and Samuel Beckett. Tim Roth: ‘As messy as your life can be, there has to be a window you can escape through' 2019-01-06T05:00:00Z Cherry Lane was started by a group of artists who were colleagues of Edna St. Vincent Millay and has produced work by Samuel Beckett, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Eugene O’Neill and Tennessee Williams. Cherry Lane Theater Is Back on the Market After Sale Falls Through 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z Playwright Samuel Beckett had an affinity for music — and once famously called composer Franz Schubert a “friend in suffering.” Essential Arts & Culture: What L.A. loses if we lose the NEA; starchitecture in Hamburg; Kerry James Marshall at MOCA 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z In Paris, Mr. Glass also dove headfirst into the experimental theater scene around Samuel Beckett. Review: Philip Glass’s ‘Words Without Music’ Tells of a Life Full of Changes in Rhythm 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z And besides, one appreciates the genius of Italo Calvino or Samuel Beckett even more keenly when set against some straightforward non-fiction or trashy, fun genre novel. Bedside reading: the naked truth 2010-04-02T13:30:00Z The enchantments of its language; its rich visual, aural, and olfactory imagery; its layers of ironies; and its breathtaking conclusion, which even Samuel Beckett wanted to imitate, are unforgettable. Review: ‘The Dead, 1904’ Brings Existential Unease to the Party 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Anyone who has read the ancient Greek tragedians Samuel Beckett or Caryl Churchill knows what can be achieved in an unbroken act of inexorable drama. Oh, the dreaded intermission: Long plays at a time when shorter is sweeter 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z His literary taste is sternly high-minded but he claims not to understand how anyone can enjoy reading Samuel Beckett. Does Freedom reign? 2010-09-17T23:05:00Z “Pass Over,” a taut riff on Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot” and the Book of Exodus, unfolds on a cosmic carceral plane. ‘There’s Still So Much to Unearth’ in ‘Pass Over’ 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z Given that Mrs. Bratescu’s oeuvre combines playfulness and dark humor, it is little surprise that she named her other major influences as Marcel Duchamp, Samuel Beckett and Charlie Chaplin. Still Making Art, and Sly Jokes, at Age 91 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z Vladimir, Estragon and the occasional moldy carrot return to their leafless tree in the Druid’s production of Samuel Beckett’s masterpiece, part of Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival. 14 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z I wish I could get similarly enthused about the Young Vic premiere of “I Am the Wind,” which tips the nod to Samuel Beckett upon a first glimpse of Richard Peduzzi’s set. Theater Review: Daring to Overcome the Difficulties of 'Problem Plays' 2011-05-17T11:30:06Z Robert Koehler wrote in The Los Angeles Times that the film “is sure to stand as one of the lasting records of Samuel Beckett’s life and work.” John Reilly, 74, a Champion of Documentary Video, Dies 2013-08-12T02:12:58Z The mordant playwright Samuel Beckett studied in Enniskillen, the remote town where this annual festival in honor of his work takes place. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z The estate of Samuel Beckett has been famously restrictive, and the estate of Edward Albee reserves the right to approve creative teams and casts for productions of his plays. Harper Lee’s Estate Sues Over Broadway Version of ‘Mockingbird’ 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z Stars, as Samuel Beckett said in another context: “They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it’s night once more.” Why we keep gazing at ‘A Star Is Born’: From Gaynor to Gaga 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z As a result, The Paper Architect, supported by £37,000 from the prestigious Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust award, which aims to support theatremakers working in unusual and innovative ways, combines live action with animation. Pulp fiction: bringing pop-up paper theatre to life 2013-07-03T14:45:45Z They are marking the occasion, characteristically, with an artistic challenge: a production of Samuel Beckett's "Happy Days," starring Ewald as a chatty woman partially buried in sand. Beckett's 'Happy Days' to go on stage at New City Theater 2012-03-01T21:03:04Z Along those same lines, he expresses disappointment in Samuel Beckett for writing “Fail better,” the line of his most likely to be quoted by aspirational writers on social media. Finding Alarm and Consolation About the Apocalypse in Two New Books 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z “The Treasure” is both a fable of futility worthy of Samuel Beckett and an allegory of Romania’s precarious place at the margins of the European Union. ‘The Whistlers’ Review: From Bucharest With Ambivalence 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z Samuel Beckett’s experimental, difficult and poetic work was a natural fit for the academy, Hopkins said, and Melillo was particularly keen on finding new productions of his work. ‘It Was a Crusade’: Karen Brooks Hopkins Revisits Her BAM Tenure 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z “He said it reminded him, in these ways that were really fascinating, of some work of Samuel Beckett’s,” Doig said. A Trinidadian Friendship: Derek Walcott and Peter Doig 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Capital city to an all-star list of playwrights that includes George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, William Butler Yeats and Samuel Beckett, Dublin continues to develop important and inventive talents today. Off Off Off Broadway? Try Dublin 2010-09-04T04:45:00Z But he has also thrived in the theatre, performing with the Royal Shakespeare Company and staging Samuel Beckett's quietly devastating one-act play, Krapp's Last Tape, several times. John Hurt: Profile 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z The artist, who abandoned abstract art for figurative work in the 1960s, was well-known for portraits of subjects including Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, actress Catherine Deneuve and his close friend, writer Samuel Beckett. Israeli artist Avigdor Arikha dies at 81 2010-05-01T19:16:00Z If “Watt” could keep Samuel Beckett from losing his mind, I decided, perhaps it could do the same for me. The Alternative Facts of Samuel Beckett’s “Watt” 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z We recently won a grant from the Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust and they politely suggested that the moment was a good opportunity for us to change to a more suitable name. Morgan Lloyd's wheelchair ride: Q&A 2010-06-26T23:05:00Z However, he was most identified with a series of performances of Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape, which he first played in 1999. John Hurt, versatile star of The Elephant Man, Alien and Harry Potter, dies aged 77 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z The influence of Samuel Beckett and his minimalist descendants glares forth from this distinctly odd but bewitching 1971 play, which Williams rewrote more than once and also called “The Two-Character Play.” Theater: New Light, Long After His Sun Set 2011-02-13T01:06:05Z Riffing off Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot” and the Exodus story in the Bible as well as being informed by the death of Trayvon Martin, the play explores structural racism, police brutality and economic determinism. The searing, timely play ‘Pass Over’ leads Broadway’s return 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z It leans against a wall, like a prop from a Samuel Beckett play. Review | How the Vietnam War changed art forever 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z They are the greats, and Samuel Beckett is one of them. Nick Clegg: My hero Samuel Beckett 2010-04-30T21:00:00Z “I didn’t want to outstay my welcome,” he said on a recent video call, from the study of his home in Portland, Ore., a black-and-white diptych of the playwright Samuel Beckett behind him. In a New ‘Night Court,’ John Larroquette Plays Defense 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z All the while, text — credited to the dancers, Samuel Beckett, Tom Stoppard and Ms. Peña — reveal the performers’ thoughts. Review: At American Realness Festival, Mirrored Movements and a Nearly Naked Yvonne Meier 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z This is the only opera by the celebrated avant-gardist and the only opera for which Samuel Beckett contributed a text. 'Neither,' ignored in U.S., gets extravagant German staging 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z Like actresses who play the flinty heroines of Samuel Beckett’s late plays, Riva must convey Anne’s personality through severely limited means: the slouch or starch in her body, the clarity or opacity in her eyes. Michael Haneke's Poignant Amour: The Flowers and the Stars 2012-05-21T18:43:58Z Some of these are long-established and substantial awards such as the Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust award. Need theatre funding ideas? Don't sell yourself short 2012-05-22T16:32:29Z Brooke Adams was living proof that an actor can have a diverse, sophisticated and challenging career and not know Samuel Beckett's plays from a hole in the ground. Brooke Adams learns the dirty truth of Beckett's 'Happy Days' 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z Billie Whitelaw, the English actress who became both acolyte and muse to the playwright Samuel Beckett and one of the foremost interpreters of his austere and deeply unsettling work, died on Sunday in London. Billie Whitelaw, Longtime Beckett Muse, Dies at 82 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z It's like watching something by Samuel Beckett and it's wholly Groener's doing. 'The Madness of George III': Not always good to be king 2011-04-22T19:19:07Z On a summer night, as bush fires rage outside, three women converge in a Melbourne theater to watch a performance of Samuel Beckett’s “Happy Days.” The Show Is About to Begin, Onstage and in the Audience’s Minds 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z Sky Arts announced the launch of the series last year, which also featured episodes about Hitler, former heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali and Irish writer Samuel Beckett. Michael Jackson spoof show scrapped after family complaints 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z In Humm’s version of Manet’s Olympia, the eponymous nude woman is attended by a factotum with David Beckham’s body and Samuel Beckett’s head. A hotline to Satan: why is the ex-CEO of Vodafone making a film version of Faust? 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z Cherry Lane was started by a group of artists who were colleagues of Edna St. Vincent Millay and has showcased work by Samuel Beckett, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Eugene O’Neill and Tennessee Williams. Historic Cherry Lane Theater Sold for $11 Million 2021-07-19T04:00:00Z “To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now,” declared Samuel Beckett in a 1961 interview. His Life Was Too Boring for a Memoir. So He Wrote Ireland’s. 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z Samuel Beckett: I wrote a groundbreaking play about men wasting their lives, You talked smack about Windsor and some merry old wives. Style Invitational Week 1378: It’s (emergency) Parody Time 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z He formed a lasting friendship with his compatriot Samuel Beckett, one that survived the award of Beckett's Nobel prize in 1969 and all the pressures that went with it, although meetings became more sparse. Peter Lennon obituary 2011-03-20T17:10:17Z Samuel Beckett, Terry Hall and Nina Simone all make his melodic list, as does Tony Wilson. I believed in Sinead O'Connor, says her producer David Holmes 2023-11-04T04:00:00Z Waiting for Godot is a play by Samuel Beckett in which two characters have a series of conversations about a man who never arrives. Waiting for the DUP: When will the party get back to Stormont? 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z But her eyes lit up when I suggested that she try something by Samuel Beckett. Appreciation: Glenda Jackson, formidable English talent who helped change contemporary acting's tone 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z James Joyce, for instance, was obsessed with it, whereas Samuel Beckett only agreed to write an enigmatic one-paragraph libretto for Morton Feldman’s “Neither” after being assured by the American composer that he also hated opera. Review: Los Angeles Opera turns to the raw side of Dublin in a pair of new operas 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z So, too, do the thinkers on whom she draws, among them Gertrude Stein, Carlo Levi, Samuel Beckett and Karl Marx. Review | This enchanting memoir is a spell book for our times 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z With apologies to Samuel Beckett, waiting for Donald Trump to be arrested is a bit like waiting for Godot to show up. Opinion | Waiting for a Trump indictment has become an arresting comedy 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z The End — the big one — is prefigured in “Endgame,” Samuel Beckett’s bracing portrait of humanity’s benighted shuffle to doomsday. Perspective | In a world on the brink, there’s always room for Beckett’s ‘Endgame’ 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z The unprepossessing title is “Fam and Yam,” which sounds like something Samuel Beckett might have considered and rejected for one of his minimalist creations. Commentary: The case of a mysterious Edward Albee play that has resurfaced in L.A. 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z Virginia Woolf and Samuel Beckett were early admirers. Perspective | Proust’s death, 100 years ago, was an ending but not the end 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z You can also vote to see part of the play as if written by someone like playwright Samuel Beckett, or with elements of an Agatha Christie murder mystery or a blockbuster summer movie. With your help, Pony World Theatre’s ‘Not/Our Town’ questions a classic 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z If Akira Kurosawa was cinema’s Shakespeare, as Steven Spielberg has put it, then Godard was its Samuel Beckett. My Jean-Luc Godard movie marathon: How I watched his collected works, in chronological order 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z After reaching the Ha'penny Bridge, Pope decided to race one more mile to the city's Samuel Beckett bridge where the Liffey flows into the Irish Sea. Robert Pope: Guinness-fuelled man runs width of Ireland in a day 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z Ms. Parry appeared as Lyubov in his revival of “The Cherry Orchard,” as Winnie in his staging of Samuel Beckett’s “Happy Days,” and in several other of his productions. Peter Brook, Celebrated Stage Director of Scale and Humanity, Dies at 97 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z He later helped popularize the work of British playwright Harold Pinter in France and starred in works of existential angst and anxiety by Samuel Beckett and Thomas Bernhard. Michel Bouquet, celebrated actor in French New Wave films, dies at 96 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z Yusuke, who in one of the early scenes performs in a Tokyo production of Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot,” is summoned to Hiroshima, where its Arts and Culture Theater is mounting “Uncle Vanya.” Perspective | Oscar nominee ‘Drive My Car’ is already a winner — as one of the most insightful movies about theater ever made 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z “As you all know, from the Samuel Beckett play, Godot never arrives,” Lee said. Climate crisis and systemic inequities drive push to reform California water laws 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z Again like Samuel Beckett's play, Act Two could be similar - but just more miserable. Tory MPs continue to play the waiting game 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z "He felt privileged to have worked with some of the greats of the theatre, including Samuel Beckett, Orson Welles and Jonathan Miller." Leonard Fenton: EastEnders actor who played Dr Legg dies aged 95 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z I trundled, more than a little unhappy, back onto the promenade — and my eye caught sight of a diminutive blue sign with white letters saying, “Allée Samuel Beckett.” Exploring Samuel Beckett’s Paris 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z My familiarity with Chaikin comes mainly from his productions of Samuel Beckett and Shepard that he directed late in his career, after a stroke had left him aphasic. Review: Odyssey Theatre's 'The Serpent' resurrects a 1960s theatrical landmark 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z He’s also retained the same agent throughout his career: Georges Borchardt, a nonagenarian eminence who’s represented Elie Wiesel and Samuel Beckett. T.C. Boyle, prophet-satirist of human folly, is back on his chimp thing 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z “Harrow” is a piece of writing in the vein of Samuel Beckett or Franz Kafka, its humor weaponized by rage. Review: Joy Williams' first novel in decades is an astonishing end-times parable 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z Nicknamed Horseshoe and Arm, they trade off sharp one-liners and operatic paragraphs, as if Samuel Beckett spent a year commuting on the 405. Review: The most sinister power in this riotously fun dystopian novel? Still Hollywood 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z “I reckon Samuel Beckett would be more suitable: especially for the rain delays.” India v New Zealand: World Test Championship final, day two – live! 2021-06-19T04:00:00Z The writer Samuel Beckett did not get his first novel published, and so he shelved it. Creative Thinking in both Science and the Arts Is Not for the Faint of Heart 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z They soon refurbished an old bank building and went on to stage works by Tennessee Williams, George Bernard Shaw, Samuel Beckett and Anton Chekhov, among others. Olympia Dukakis, late-blooming Oscar winner for ‘Moonstruck,’ dies at 89 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z Soon they refurbished an old bank building and went on to stage works by Tennessee Williams, George Bernard Shaw, Samuel Beckett and Anton Chekhov, among others. Olympia Dukakis, late-blooming Oscar winner for ‘Moonstruck,’ dies at 89 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z He won several playwriting prizes as a student, including one for “Oh Dad, Poor Dad,” a dark comedy influenced by the absurdist works of Samuel Beckett and Eugène Ionesco. Arthur Kopit, playwright of early promise who later found ‘Phantom’ success, dies at 83 2021-04-04T04:00:00Z As an entertainment, the show is less Shari Lewis’ Lamb Chop than the disembodied chattering-mouth of Samuel Beckett in the writer’s frantic 1973 stage play “Not I,” which provides the title. Review: LACMA reopens with six shows that hint to what the future museum will be like 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z Two work buddies speculating about time and mortality sounds like a Samuel Beckett play, but two space explorers talking about time and mortality after the apocalypse, plus a few action scenes, sounds like Netflix gold. We Live in Disastrous Times. Why Can’t Disaster Movies Evolve? 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z Here was a man who had spent time with Lennon and Bowie, who was once friends with Sonia Orwell and used to walk round Paris with Samuel Beckett. Jim Haynes: A man who invited the world over for dinner 2021-01-23T05:00:00Z It was social science by way of Samuel Beckett. Opinion | Happiness Won’t Save You 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z The writer Samuel Beckett did not get his first novel published and so he shelved it. The Empty Half of the Glass May Also Be Full 2020-11-14T05:00:00Z The lethargic characters, the clipped, echoing dialogue and the philosophical banter are all very reminiscent of Samuel Beckett, a masterful minimalist whose work strongly resonates with the peculiar psychological toll of quarantine. National Book Award winner Don DeLillo dissects technological paranoia in prescient, slim ‘The Silence’ 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z Schisgal’s exploration of suicide and despair recalled other absurdist plays by European writers such as Samuel Beckett, Jean Genet and Eugène Ionesco, whom he cited as key influences. Murray Schisgal, playwright and screenwriter who helped create ‘Tootsie,’ dies at 93 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z Like Sophocles or Samuel Beckett or Toni Morrison — and yet unlike them — Caravaggio is an artist who goes there with us, to the painful places of reality. In Dark Times, I Sought Out the Turmoil of Caravaggio’s Paintings 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z Samuel Beckett began his novel “The Unnamable” with the questions: “Where now? Who now? When now?” Born from the tragedies of 1968, Berio's miraculous 'Sinfonia' still resonates 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z Mixing elements from Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot” and the biblical Exodus saga, Nwandu wrote the play as a mirror to the effects of white privilege and police brutality on Black lives. 'Pass Over' playwright Antoinette Nwandu on a reckoning in American theater 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z When the story opened up he was working as a road manager for a traveling theater company, and we were doing a performance of Samuel Beckett’s “Krapp’s Last Tape.” How novelist Michael Chabon lured Patrick Stewart back to the 'Star Trek' universe 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z Samuel Beckett’s absurdist classic is in two acts, and my drama was far from over. Waiting for Sauvignon Blanc: Pandemic reveals Samuel Beckett as the ultimate realist 2020-05-25T04:00:00Z What we said: “It combines the mundane and the mystical to create an atmosphere that sits somewhere along the wispy continuum between a Samuel Beckett play and a David Lynch mini-series.” The best games of 2020 so far 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z In a tone somewhere between those of writer Samuel Beckett, film-maker Woody Allen and poet W. B. Yeats, he asks what happens when we’re faced with the prospect of both individual and global demise. Preppers, bunkers and emaciated polar bears 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z A paradox worthy of Samuel Beckett came, then, with admission. Perspective | In the midst of the virus, theater migrates to the web. The results are spotty. 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z Griffiths’ text, much like that of Samuel Beckett, alluded rather than announced. Commentary: Beethoven 2020: The 250th birthday tributes start, with mixed results 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z It is almost absurd what Leicester are doing, attempting to put a perky twist on Samuel Beckett’s most famous quote. Brendan Rodgers’ reborn Leicester should not be overlooked in title race | Paul Doyle 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z Yet the only two subjects that anyone has ever wanted to talk to her about were Samuel Beckett and Simone de Beauvoir. Reflections on writing about the lives of Beckett, Beauvoir 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z In “The Western Canon,” published in 1994, Dr. Bloom named the 26 crucial writers in Western literature, from Dante to Samuel Beckett, and declared Philip Roth, Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo among the contemporary greats. Harold Bloom, literary critic who wrote of the ‘anxiety of influence,’ dies at 89 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z In The Western Canon, published in 1994, Bloom named the 26 crucial writers in Western literature, from Dante to Samuel Beckett, and declared Philip Roth, Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo among the contemporary greats. Harold Bloom, author and literary critic, dies at age 89 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z At a party in the sixties, she was introduced to Samuel Beckett. Edna O’Brien Is Still Writing About Women on the Run 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z An English major in college, he struck up a correspondence with Samuel Beckett and met the playwright in Paris. Stuart Levy, microbiologist who sounded alarm on antibiotic resistance, dies at 80 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Stage actor Bill Irwin has long been obsessed with the words of Samuel Beckett. Essential Arts: The Music Center roiled by a resignation and harassment investigation 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z Samuel Beckett, who possessed a rich memory of Dublin musical halls and circus routines, worshiped clowns. Bill Irwin shares the secrets of Samuel Beckett in a masterclass at the Kirk Douglas 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z Samuel Beckett is widely revered as the master playwright of the theater of the absurd, as well as a fearless chronicler of the human condition. For Bill Irwin, master interpreter of Samuel Beckett, even the unspoken word matters 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z In O’Brien’s kitchen, a photograph of Samuel Beckett hangs above the table. Edna O’Brien Is Still Writing About Women on the Run 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z “Connolly’s staccato prose leans on short sentences and chapters … that at their best evoke the style of Samuel Beckett, an admirer of Laurel and Hardy,” wrote a New York Times reviewer. 6 paperbacks to pick up, including bios of Arthur Ashe and Agatha Christie 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z A prominent departure at the Music Center, an actor wrestles Samuel Beckett and a beloved conductor begins his final season at the San Francisco Symphony. Essential Arts: The Music Center roiled by a resignation and harassment investigation 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z Now Holly chooses her own readings: something romantic for February, Irish author Samuel Beckett for St Patrick's Day. Why I read aloud to strangers 2019-08-03T04:00:00Z Jane Bown, the Observer’s greatest postwar photographer, used to tell the story of the day she was sent to the Royal Court theatre to photograph Samuel Beckett, acclaimed author of Waiting For Godot. Another side of Samuel Beckett 2019-07-28T04:00:00Z “Happy Days,” Samuel Beckett’s absurdist fable about a world-weary yet somehow optimistic woman who just happens to be slowly sinking into a mound of dirt. 6 Weekend Picks: Beethoven meets the Beatles, Barak Ballet, Dianne Wiest and more 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z St.-Lo, to name just one martyred Normandy town, was all but destroyed and later unflatteringly named “The Capital of the Ruins” by playwright Samuel Beckett. D-Day joy, hell for civilians told anew with virtual reality 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z It opens with “On Beckett,” a remount of the Irish Repertory Theatre production that is conceived and performed by Bill Irwin, who has long been obsessed with Nobel Prize-winning Irish playwright Samuel Beckett. 'What the Constitution Means to Me' will come to L.A.'s Mark Taper Forum in 2020 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z My other hunch was that the new film might turn out to be based on Samuel Beckett’s “Endgame,” and that the Avengers would spend their days squatting miserably inside ash cans. “The White Crow” and the Difficulty with Dance Movies 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z “Sorrow Swag” takes blue as its cue, examining race, grief and gender with theatrical texts from Samuel Beckett and Jean Anouilh; “minor matter” is the “red” chapter, studying love, rage and a mysterious black box. Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for May 2019 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z While questioning American exceptionalism, he drew comparisons to Walt Whitman; in his descriptions of death and absence, he was likened to Samuel Beckett. W.S. Merwin, poet of austere lyricism who twice won the Pulitzer Prize, dies at 91 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z Of course, admirers of Samuel Beckett will recognize that “Failbetter” carries with it an allusion to the writer’s famous bit from “Worstword Ho”: “Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” Review | ‘Sunless Skies’ is a majestically cruel game 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z Playwright Samuel Beckett died in Paris at age 83. Today in History 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z She nevertheless won a place at Trinity College Dublin, which – numbering Oscar Wilde and Samuel Beckett, not to mention Enright, among its alumni – must surely have seemed pretty prestigious. Sally Rooney: ‘I don’t respond to authority very well’ 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z A vocal group, originally the Swingle Singers, sings and/or speaks phonemes and texts from the likes of Samuel Beckett and Claude Lévi-Strauss. Critic's Notebook: In a constellation of experimental sounds, all music is in Fluxus 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z He befriended Buster Keaton in the 1950s and had a brief role in one of the silent star’s most unusual projects, “Film,” an experimental short written by Samuel Beckett. This week’s passages 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z He and his first wife, folk singer Susan Reed, appeared in one of Keaton’s last projects, the existential Samuel Beckett short “Film.” Leonard Maltin remembers his friend character actor James Karen, who worked with everyone from Brando to Monroe - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z His many film credits included Buster Keaton’s “Film,” based on a script by Samuel Beckett, to “The China Syndrome” and “Mulholland Drive.” James Karen, ‘Mr. Teague’ of ‘Poltergeist,’ is dead at 94 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z Maeterlinck is worth revisiting—his elliptical dialogue looks ahead to the work of Samuel Beckett. The Velvet Revolution of Claude Debussy 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z He’s not read Wittgenstein in some time, but he still returns to the works of the novelist and playwright Samuel Beckett. Bruce Nauman, the Artist’s Artist 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z During his career, he staged the English language premiere of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot and the world premiere of Harold Pinter's Homecoming. Theatre world pays tribute to Peter Hall 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z The moment of haunting by Samuel Beckett’s question: “What would I do without them, when words fail,” spoken by his character Winnie, buried to the neck, in his play Happy Days. Louder than bombs: my journey in war and music 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z It published classic European writers including Anton Chekhov, Leo Tolstoy and Emile Zola, as well as modern authors — notably Samuel Beckett, whom Mr. Calder considered “the greatest of 20th-century writers.” John Calder, British publisher and champion of avant-garde, dies at 91 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z Founded in 1949, Calder Publications published European writers including Anton Chekhov, Leo Tolstoy and Emile Zola, as well as newer authors — notably Samuel Beckett, whom Calder considered “the greatest of 20th-century writers.” Publisher John Calder, champion of edgy authors, dies at 91 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z Founded in 1949, Calder Publications published European writers including Anton Chekhov, Leo Tolstoy and Emile Zola, as well as newer authors - notably Samuel Beckett, whom Calder considered “the greatest of 20th-century writers.” Publisher John Calder, champion of edgy authors, dies at 91 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z The Franz Kafka and Samuel Beckett influences, which are prominent in previous work like “The Pets,” remain, though they are perhaps less pronounced here than the surrealist and nouveau roman touchstones. A man trails his nemesis in Bragi Ólafsson's darkly comedic 'Narrator' 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z On Saturday, the Irish navy ship Samuel Beckett arrived in the Sicilian port of Messina with 106 migrants. Italy wants to block Frontex ships with migrants from ports 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z Yet Weiss was equally adept at producing classic portraits of celebrated artistic figures, including Samuel Beckett and Joan Miró. 'Click, click, click, I never wait': the everyday genius of Sabine Weiss 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z His voice is detached and wry, not unlike a character from a story by Samuel Beckett. A startling debut novel from a South African poet 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z He took long walks with a friend who knew the feeling—Samuel Beckett—reportedly in mutual silence. Giacometti’s Skinny Sublimity 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z Other fun details include boring machines named after Samuel Beckett, Robert Frost, and T.S. I went to Elon Musk’s Boring Company LA pep rally 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z Her eyes widened when I proposed that she do Samuel Beckett next, but she laughed off the idea of a bucket list. My disastrous tea with Glenda Jackson 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z "To fail better," as Samuel Beckett caveated us.To more effectively use limited human and nonhuman resources. Nuts May Be Good for the Heart, but Are Hardly a Miracle Food 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z Influences “Samuel Beckett, especially for the aesthetic manifesto he wrote in the guise of an essay on Marcel Proust.” Stan Douglas's best photograph: flirts move in at the Vancouver races 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z In his lifetime, Samuel Beckett was careful to police new productions of his plays: stage directions had to be followed to the letter. Up in smoke: should an author's dying wishes be obeyed? 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z Given that Bratescu’s oeuvre combines playfulness and dark humor, it is little surprise that she named her other major influences as Marcel Duchamp, Samuel Beckett and Charlie Chaplin. Still making art, and sly jokes, at a young 91 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z The highlight of a section on art and language, for example, is the 1976 artists’ book, “Foirades / Fizzles,” featuring five enigmatic text fragments in French and English by Samuel Beckett and 33 prints by Johns. Does the Broad's new Jasper Johns exhibition hit the bull's-eye? It gets darn close 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z “Words and Voices” shows how Johns saw language in relationship to visual perception; it includes a series of Samuel Beckett narrative shorts, for which Johns created prints evoking the language. 'Three Flags' and other rare Jasper Johns works unveiled at the Broad 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z In recent years the works of Samuel Beckett, Sir Terence Rattigan and Sir Tom Stoppard have filled the 890-seat theatre. How to own a West End theatre 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z An actor long admired for her mastery in works by Samuel Beckett, Wallace Shawn and other modern dramatists, Ewald has also excelled as male Shakespeare protagonists. Seattle Shakespeare Company tackles rarely produced ‘Timon of Athens’ 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z During his career he staged the English language premiere of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot and the world premiere of Harold Pinter's Homecoming. RSC founder Sir Peter Hall dies at 86 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z During a career, which spanned more than half a century, he staged the English language premier of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, and the world premier of Harold Pinter’s Homecoming. Sir Peter Hall, theatre, film and opera director, dies aged 86 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z In his short stint in college in Walnut, California, he was exposed to the absurdist stylings of Samuel Beckett and decided to leave. Appreciation: Sam Shepard embodied, examined American myth 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z The author of “Longbourn” returns with a very different novel, set during World War II and inspired by the wartime experiences of playwright Samuel Beckett. 5 books now out in paperback, including ‘Barkskins’ and ‘Bad-Ass Librarians’ 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z But many Seoulites described a sense of repetition that almost sounded like something from a Samuel Beckett play, with a threat that looms but never arrives. Amid Tensions, South Koreans Keep Calm and Carry On 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z The first songwriter to receive the prestigious award, Dylan joins a celebrated group of laureates including Thomas Mann, Samuel Beckett, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Doris Lessing. Bob Dylan finally accepts Nobel prize in literature at private ceremony in Stockholm 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z "You look at Samuel Beckett when he was older, Richard Harris, but I think with younger men it seems to be a big pressure." James Nesbitt: Hair transplants helped me get better roles - BBC News 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z Drabble’s characters are literate, even scholarly, so they naturally attend a Samuel Beckett play or page through a heavy art book or ponder D.H. Review: Drabble confronts old age in ‘The Dark Flood Rises’ 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z Dr. Whalen, for example, an English professor as well as provost, ended his course “Great Books in Continental Literature” with a look at Samuel Beckett’s “Endgame.” In Hillsdale College, a ‘Shining City on a Hill’ for Conservatives 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z With his black clothes and expertise in French poetry, his love of baseball and Samuel Beckett, Auster offered a stylish and accessible intellectualism, East Coast meets Left Bank. Paul Auster: ‘I'm going to speak out as often as I can, otherwise I can't live with myself' 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z Dancing for the audiences of avant-garde Paris offers young Lucia an outlet, while her father’s friend Samuel Beckett offers romantic promise. Readers’ books of the year 2016 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z An EU warship, the Samuel Beckett, is nearby, but the Dignity 1 is told to proceed to the area anyway. Five days on board a migrant rescue boat in the central Mediterranean 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Until reading the appreciation by Charles McNulty, I did not know that Albee thought so highly of Samuel Beckett, also one of my favorites in the Theatre of the Absurd. Readers continue to reflect on the Emmys and say goodbye to Curtis Hanson 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z It was part of a double bill that included Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape. Edward Albee obituary 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z The famous cemetery is also the resting place of the likes of Charles Baudelaire, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Samuel Beckett and Susan Sontag. Designers remember Sonia Rykiel during funeral in Paris 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z Baker’s fictionalised account of Samuel Beckett’s time in France during the occupation and his work for the resistance gives us an insight into his development as a writer. Readers’ books of the year 2016 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z He did throw out a few joking references to what might play there: a festival of "Plays Nobody Understands" or a production of Samuel Beckett's "Happy Days"--"let's see his version of it." Garry Marshall: A guy who knew what he wanted 1999-11-09T05:00:00Z He paused, adding wryly, “it’s like ‘Waiting for Godot,’ ” referring to the existentialist play by Samuel Beckett. As Erdogan Sculpts New Turkish Identity, Turks Look at His Work With Unease 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z The writer Samuel Beckett, based in Paris, talked about “the siege in the room”. In France we’ve lost our joie de vivre | Agnès Poirier 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z Perhaps the playwright Samuel Beckett was a secret economist. When will US interest rates rise again? - BBC News 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z Jo Baker’s new novel, “A Country Road, a Tree,” is based on the experiences of Irish author Samuel Beckett in wartime France, as the playwright endured war’s deprivations and fought with the Resistance. ‘A Country Road, a Tree’: the World War II battles of Samuel Beckett 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z The season also includes the world premiere of a Samuel Beckett monologue and Glenda Jackson as King Lear. Star Wars actor John Boyega heads for Old Vic stage - BBC News 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z “It was like Samuel Beckett, somehow,” he recalls. Performance Art that Doesn’t Bore 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z The Samuel Beckett bridge, a cable-stayed bridge that opened the previous year, sprawls the river near the convention centre like a sunbathing harp. ‘Ireland is becoming no place for the young… we need brave people willing to be bad citizens’ 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z As the Goons took to the airwaves with silly voices and absurd plots, a similar existential angst was being presented in the theatre of Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, and Harold Pinter. The five stages of British gags: silliness, repression, anger, innuendo, fear 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z It is in Baker’s note that the reader discovers that the unnamed protagonist of the novel is Samuel Beckett, the famous Irish-born author of “Waiting for Godot.” ‘A Country Road, a Tree’: the World War II battles of Samuel Beckett 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z The absurd in the album I later found in Samuel Beckett, and his hollow laugh, which one learns, and to which one surrenders, later in life. Was 1966 pop music’s greatest year? 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z Murphy,” Samuel Beckett The Book of Ecclesiastes probably inspired the opening line of Beckett’s first published novel. My 10 Favorite Books: David Benioff 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z If you prefer things with the lights out, Max Stafford-Clark's production of All That Fall - Samuel Beckett's one-act radio play - will see its audiences blindfolded as the cast move about them in the auditorium. Theatre in 2016 is all about William and Harry - BBC News 2015-12-26T05:00:00Z But it's an off-Broadway play, Samuel Beckett's "Happy Days," that she considers her career highlight and most challenging role, "like 'Hamlet' to a man," Rae said, paraphrasing British actress Peggy Ashcroft's description of it. Charlotte Rae Lived the Real Facts of Life 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z A play performed in complete darkness is among this year's line up for a summer festival celebrating writer Samuel Beckett. Beckett festival to feature play in the dark 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z McKee came to the door dressed in a dark suit, having just returned from Mass. His hair was white and spiky, in the style of Samuel Beckett. Where the Bodies Are Buried 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z Billie Whitelaw, a British actress who collaborated closely with Irish playwright Samuel Beckett and appeared on stage and screen for decades, died Dec. 21 in a London nursing home. Deaths elsewhere 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z He’s always been a reader, a fan of the avant-garde Evergreen Review magazine and an admirer of Samuel Beckett, William Burroughs and other writers of Grove Press, known for its experimental and explicit literature. David Cronenberg writes first novel, ‘Consumed’ 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z But those who knew Samuel Beckett also knew that his was a life embedded in music, both making and listening to it, usually in the company of friends. Why music struck a chord with Beckett 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z Several of the Irish artist's paintings are held in collections around the city and nationally, including portraits of playwright Samuel Beckett, poet W H Auden, FBI director J Edgar Hoover and musician Sir Paul McCartney. Pop art dinner party gifted to city 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z “Happy Days” In Scena Theatre’s staging of Samuel Beckett’s play, Nancy Robinette plays a woman trapped in a mound of earth and struggling with her place in life. Going Out Guide for the District of Columbia, July 3-9, 2014 In modern culture – ask Samuel Beckett – "nothing" is a cliche even more venerable than "… from hell". Contemporary art isn't original – even copying has been done before 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z The great Irish writers of the 20th Century, such as Samuel Beckett and James Joyce, preferred Paris to London, but the lure of London as a literary destination has grown in recent decades. Britain and Ireland: A brief history 2014-04-08T07:24:25Z Samuel Beckett was an avid concert‑goer, whether residing in Dublin, London, Berlin or Paris. Why music struck a chord with Beckett 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina — A BOY, his voice heavy with embarrassment and regret, was performing Samuel Beckett in Serbo-Croatian. Op-Ed Contributor: Godot Arrives in Sarajevo 2014-02-19T01:02:08Z He also translated works by Samuel Beckett, Tennessee Williams and TS Eliot, and taught literature at universities in the US, UK and Canada, besides his work in Mexico. Mexican writer and poet Pacheco dies 2014-01-27T04:44:20Z Besides tennis, Wawrinka also provided a boost to the Irish writer Samuel Beckett. On Tennis: Did Wawrinka Crack Tennis’s Big Four, or Just Dent It? 2014-01-27T16:34:26Z A tattoo of a Samuel Beckett quotation on his left forearm tells much about Wawrinka: “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” Analysis: Wawrinka, Nadal and Two Unforeseen Opponents: Fear and Pain 2014-01-27T05:37:43Z The tattoo is from Samuel Beckett, the late Irish poet whose work Wawrinka is not familiar with, other than his favorite quote. Wawrinka Savors Advance to Australian Open Final 2014-01-25T07:31:27Z When earlier this year the university bought a unique Samuel Beckett manuscript to add to its archive there was some carping about the price tag of £962,500. University boss: Head teacher, mayor or chief executive? 2013-10-10T02:04:14Z Among the featured landmarks is the Samuel Beckett bridge across the river Liffey in Dublin. Officials silent on passport images 2013-09-26T05:34:55Z It’s from Samuel Beckett, whose writings dealt with the struggle to find meaning in a bleak, nihilistic universe. Straight Sets: The Power of Positive Thinking Doesn’t Fail Wawrinka 2013-09-06T18:11:44Z The exact number of dancers who lined the River Liffey around the Samuel Beckett Bridge was verified by Guinness World Records. Dancers set Riverdance world record 2013-07-21T15:43:44Z Now, it was Samuel Beckett who is supposed to have said when asked by a friend if good weather made him glad to be alive: "I wouldn't go as far as that." The sun is out, but our economy remains under a cloud 2013-07-14T08:00:02Z It has been a painfully long haul, a waiting game that would have tested Samuel Beckett's patience. Who will take pride in roaring for the 2013 Lions squad in Australia? 2013-04-26T14:42:58Z One might imagine that their correspondence would be filled with insights on Samuel Beckett, the Israeli-Palestine conflict and the letter K. And it is. Watching sport on TV can be a waste of time but there are benefits 2013-03-16T22:00:03Z Samuel Beckett, the playwright, befriended some of his incarcerated audience members. A story about stories 2013-03-08T17:48:34Z His musings on mortality echo those of the great Irish writer Samuel Beckett. Scorecard From The Edge 2013-02-12T05:00:00Z The Beckett International Foundation at the University of Reading will hold a series of seminars on Samuel Beckett and Waiting for Godot in April 2013. Still waiting for Godot 2013-01-05T01:31:30Z The 75-year-old has also recently appeared in plays by Arthur Miller and Samuel Beckett. There's nothing like a panto dame 2012-12-17T04:29:04Z "Samuel Beckett was an iconic image of the 1950s and it really suits the image of today with long hair, gel, spiked and graduated short back and sides," he said. Beckett is honoured at festival 2012-08-23T08:57:11Z Samuel Beckett wrote ‘fail, try, fail again, fail better, you have to fail better.’ A lesson in sticktoitiveness — an amusing commencement speech by Garry Marshall 2012-05-25T08:00:00Z The playwright Samuel Beckett, left, and Mr. Rosset in Paris in the 1970s. Barney Rosset, 1922-2012: Barney Rosset, Grove Press Publisher, Dies at 89 2012-02-23T04:58:10Z How has Samuel Beckett's play grown from a tiny avant garde performance in Paris to become part of the West End theatre coach party circuit? Still waiting for Godot 2013-01-05T01:31:30Z The O’Keefe order uses a tape recorder – its origins in the Samuel Beckett play Krapp’s Last Tape, whose protagonist tapes himself speaking at different times in his life. Celebrating Festivus: A Guide to the Holiday 'For the Rest of Us' 2011-12-23T17:05:32Z The second, ‘Catastrophe,’ dedicated to Mr. Havel by Samuel Beckett, is a highly symbolic homage to the author’s martyrdom. ArtsBeat Blog: Remembering the Words of Vaclav Havel 2011-12-18T20:38:55Z He plays the title character in Samuel Beckett’s darkly comic “Krapp’s Last Tape,” a 69-year-old reacting to a recording he made as a much younger man -- especially the description of an erotic episode. Hurt’s Krapp, The Antlers, Sendak’s ’Schnozzola,’: NYC Weekend 2011-12-09T14:44:03Z And so this “comedy” ends in a way that predicts Samuel Beckett, with deep-rooted characters in existential paralysis. Cate Blanchett Seduces in Furious D.C. ’Vanya’: Jeremy Gerard 2011-08-11T02:23:03Z United, of course, went on to romp the league, while Southampton merely continued to exist, in those days a Samuel Beckett play in club form. The Joy of Six: Football on YouTube 2011-07-29T10:06:34Z An unsigned, unillustrated first edition of Samuel Beckett’s novel, Murphy, will cost you a hundred grand. The 21st Century Novel: Jaded Ibis Sees a 'Mashup' 2011-02-11T14:49:31Z This year he acquired the insolvent German retailer Karstadt for €1 in a takeover process he compared to Samuel Beckett's Waiting For Godot. El Pa?s saviours are no media moguls 2010-10-05T19:58:00Z |
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