| 单词 | Beckett |
| 例句 | In the afternoon, they lay spread out, sunbathing in front of the library, reading Swift or Engels or Beckett. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “My mom only adopted her because the Becketts have one.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Beckett called for a chopper to get us out. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z “Only because Stella Beckett got one for her sweet sixteen.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 Beckett wanted this piece to play on the nerves of the audience, not the intellect. Beckett's Not I: how I became the ultimate motormouth 2013-05-08T18:30:01Z 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 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 The sleeping docks, the decrepit industries, the disused railroads: at such places, the city is shorn of all superfluity and reduced to its essentials, as in a play by Beckett. Second Sight 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z In several scenes, characters comically repeat words — in one scene it’s “potato” — as if stranded inside a Beckett wasteland. ‘The Greasy Strangler’: Just Maybe the Weirdest Movie Ever 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z Mr. Hurt is now 71 and possesses a furrowed forehead and spiky gray hair that evoke Beckett himself in his glowering later photographs. | 'Krapp?s Last Tape': ?Krapp?s Last Tape,? With John Hurt, at BAM - Review 2011-12-09T03:01:00Z It is not surprising — though it is also, somehow, astonishing — that they worked together once, on a film devised by Beckett and titled “Film.” Review: ‘Notfilm’ Tells How Beckett and Keaton Collaborated 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Back then I remember images of Beckett making as great an impression on me as his work. Nick Clegg: My hero Samuel Beckett 2010-04-30T21:00:00Z The Beckett Bridge, which opened last year, immediately became Dublin’s most dazzling. Off Off Off Broadway? Try Dublin 2010-09-04T04:45:00Z 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 One of their favorite scams involves Samuel performing soliloquies for an appreciative crowd on Santa Monica's Third Street Promenade while big bro Beckett picks their pockets. Shakespearean 'Phantom Halo' is a ghost of what it should be 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z "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 “Watt” seems to be the least loved and least read of Beckett’s major prose works, but I first lost myself in it more than a quarter of a century ago. The Alternative Facts of Samuel Beckett’s “Watt” 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z The great Irish trilogy of writers – O'Casey, Heaney and Beckett – enthusiastically joined the movement. Rising from the ashes 2010-05-21T14:01:00Z Last fall the team also revived the storied Cahiers d’Art journal, which had published works by Hemingway and Beckett, with a cover and a lithograph by the artist Ellsworth Kelly, who turns 90 this month. The Zervos Picasso Catalog Is Resurrected 2013-05-22T22:13:48Z "The text for him was like a score, and the important thing for us was to find the rhythm of the line," Mandell said when asked about Beckett's direction. Theater pulses in Alan Mandell's veins 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z His debut feature, Adam & Paul, updated the existential black comedy of Beckett's Waiting for Godot, with two addicts scraping their way through the underbelly of Dublin to grimly comic effect. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2013-04-06T23:05:13Z 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 Mr. Neumann had met Beckett at a museum in East Berlin in 1976, and their ensuing friendship had encouraged the playwright to entrust him and the company with several of his nontheatrical texts. Frederick Neumann, Actor and Director, Dies at 86 2012-12-06T21:12:13Z Beckett had worked with the dub and world-music star Jah Wobble over the years, and Wobble's connection with Sherwood always made the collaboration likely. Harry Beckett obituary 2010-07-26T17:38:00Z 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 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 Beckett once told a cast of “Waiting for Godot” that the play was about “symbiosis.” Review: Merce Cunningham’s ‘Crises’ Opens Dance at the New Whitney 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z 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 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 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 It shows, as Beckett shows, how close is the connection between the comic and the sinister. Public Enemy; These Shining Lives; The Hothouse – review 2013-05-18T23:07:16Z In a way, the evening is like an odd mix of Kafka and Beckett. The Arrest of Ai Weiwei – review 2013-04-18T00:04:17Z 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 "You do get such a strong sense of the mind at work, developing ideas, rewriting, doodling in the margins when he's stuck – and that's such a privilege when it's a mind like Beckett's," he said. Samuel Beckett manuscript offers 'intimate' look into his mind 2013-06-04T13:28:16Z If any positive feeling can be taken from Beckett or Rothko's work, it is a cold, steely courage. Noises off: Memo to budding theatre professionals ? know what your 'why' is 2011-03-25T16:21:02Z The title story, also told in fragments, is a more successful experiment — almost giddily grim, with echoes of Beckett and David Markson. Life, and Other Interruptions: A Storyteller Explains ‘Why I Don’t Write’ 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z Sections showing heavy revisions, suggesting they were the portions of text to have given Beckett the most trouble, include the opening, Murphy's horoscope, and several of the passages at the boarding house on Brewery Road. Samuel Beckett manuscript offers 'intimate' look into his mind 2013-06-04T13:28:16Z For “That Time,” the most elaborate of the Beckett pieces, Sharon placed the actors in the empty seats behind the stage and organ loft with pinpoint lighting by Christopher Kuhl. L.A. Phil's revelatory pairing of Beckett and Schubert, 'Night and Dreams' 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z 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 That scripted action plays a central role in his work was abundantly clear in the two Beckett pieces that proved to be the other major events of the opening days. Northern Ireland Town Embraces Beckett Festival 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z The Beckett estate is famous for its handcuffs approach, but while still alive Beckett was a theatrical pragmatist, one who was even prepared to bow to health and safety. Death of a Salesman v the death of directing 2012-10-29T17:43:33Z Harold Bloom called it "deliciously unbelieving … the purest comedy that Beckett ever wrote". Samuel Beckett manuscript offers 'intimate' look into his mind 2013-06-04T13:28:16Z "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 Who are your literary heroes?I've had many: Gogol, Beckett, Maupassant, Heinrich von Kleist, Kafka, Mark Twain, all the Roths I can think of but especially Joseph Roth, and of course Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy. The Man Booker International prize finalists speak: Part Two 2013-05-15T10:31:24Z 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 In addition to her volumes on Beckett, Ms. Cohn wrote other books about modern American and British theater and analyses of playwrights, including artistic descendants of Beckett like Edward Albee, Harold Pinter and Caryl Churchill. Ruby Cohn, Theater Scholar and Beckett Authority, Dies at 89 2011-10-30T23:41:58Z 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 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 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 The toil, according to Beckett, may be tedious and futile. Review: Wrestling With a Master in ‘On Beckett’ 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z His jokes, like Samuel Beckett's, are cracked out of necessity. Comedy gold: Simon Amstell's Do Nothing 2012-11-15T12:00:55Z 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 Dr Heaton said the manuscripts show the first time Beckett explored major themes such as "the desire to retreat from human contact" that recur throughout his works. Beckett manuscript sells at auction 2013-07-10T11:44:24Z 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 Slides, whoops and whooshes rush through “Play,” with half-buried lines of aching lyricism dissolving into fragments of scales that are passed around the orchestra with the enigmatic intimacy of dialogue in Beckett plays. Review: Los Angeles Philharmonic Makes the Familiar Feel Fresh 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z Obviously not only for Beckett studies but for the whole of 20th century literature studies this is one of the most important manuscripts, and it has been locked away for 55 years. Samuel Beckett's Murphy draft bought by Reading University for £1m 2013-07-10T17:36:35Z Even the absurdist purgatories and in-between spaces of Beckett, whose language has the same kind of circuitousness, take us someplace, even if we ultimately end up back where we started. Review: In ‘Hang Time,’ Lynched Men Tell Finely Tuned Tales 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z They will grope, like so many Beckett characters, in the darkness. William Pope.L Makes Statements From the Fringes 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z She contacted Beckett, offering to write his biography. Beckett, Beauvoir and a Biographer’s Bumpy Takeoff 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z It was in that martyr city, among hollowed houses and numberless casualties, where Beckett’s subtractive vision began to crystallize into a new art of bleak hope. When Cultural Heritage Becomes a Battlefront 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z Bair devoted seven years to each book and gives them equal space in “Parisian Lives,” but her experiences with Beckett were clearly more formational. Beckett, Beauvoir and a Biographer’s Bumpy Takeoff 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z They are waiting for a redeemer who’ll never materialize, and the West’s point of view, though rarely spoken, comes straight out of Beckett: “Nothing to be done.” Review: In ‘City of Thorns,’ Ben Rawlence Tells a Refugee Camp’s Story 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z He has also recast the radical work of Beckett and Sartre, cutting them adrift from their historical moment. Artist of the week 2010-05-05T14:57:00Z “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 The plays — the best-known part of Beckett’s oeuvre — are certainly central to the program. In Northern Ireland, a Celebration of Samuel Beckett 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z Two things we know about Season 4: Beckett will survive, and Penny Johnson Jerald of “24” will join the cast as Beckett’s new boss. It Girls, Mad Men and Monster Slayers 2011-09-16T19:51:47Z Both Beckett and Pinter would understand this week's events. Waiting for Murdoch 2011-07-22T18:00:01Z Beckett describes his attempts to gain entrance to the house: The Alternative Facts of Samuel Beckett’s “Watt” 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z Like Beckett’s unnamed speaker, Mr. McKenzie’s character floats above the stage, looking both untethered and trapped. Review: The Lists We Live by in Daniel Fish’s ‘White Noise’ 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z And it's not just Beckett: let's look at some of our other "great" authors, those who've possibly written works of true timelessness. Endless fascination: in praise of novels without neat conclusions 2012-11-23T11:25:25Z There are some playwrights – Chekhov and Beckett among them – who I think you can only truly appreciate once you've experienced the compromises and disappointments of adult life. Lyn Gardner on critics changing their minds 2010-03-17T22:00:00Z But much of the rest of his theatrical life was devoted to Beckett. Rick Cluchey Dies at 82; Prison Theater Was His Redemption 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z “I wasn’t dating and really didn’t like sports,” she explained, so she found solace and unexpected joy in the works of Beckett and Ionesco. Asked to Adapt a Classic Play, This Writer Rethought Her Life 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z 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 Barack Obama, though, makes Clegg's choice of Beckett look almost parochial. Books and the ballot box 2010-05-04T10:00:00Z 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 In another room, Beckett Scully, 12, from the Field School in Washington, was adding what is called “mods,” or modifications, to the game “Minecraft.” At iD Tech camp, screen time is a learning opportunity Doctor Sam Beckett – Quantum Leap’s time-hopping samaritan – was dependably the opposite, a sort of uncle hero. When good TV goes bad: how Quantum Leap made one leap too far 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z An unmistakable Charlie Chaplin appears on the same page as a self-portrait of Beckett. Why did Samuel Beckett draw doodles? 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z 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 Numerous members of the cell were arrested by the Gestapo, including Beckett’s close friend Alfred Péron, who was interrogated and eventually sent to Mauthausen concentration camp, in Austria. The Alternative Facts of Samuel Beckett’s “Watt” 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z Any Beckett collector with deep pockets would yearn to possess such a treasure. Review: ‘The Forgers,’ a suspense novel by Bradford Morrow 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z In his introduction, Beckett scholar Mark Nixon calls “Echo’s Bones” “a difficult, at times obscure story, uneven in tone and mood, and evasive in stating its business.” Samuel Beckett's 'Echo's Bones' finally published after 80 years 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z 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 If Happy Days is anything to go by, these ideas look likely to be embraced by locals, who seem wildly enthusiastic about all things Beckett. In Northern Ireland, a Celebration of Samuel Beckett 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z Just up the street from Trinity College and its Book of Kells are a pair of bridges over the Liffey that were named for two of Ireland’s best-known playwrights, Beckett and Sean O’Casey. Off Off Off Broadway? Try Dublin 2010-09-04T04:45:00Z 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 "I wouldn't attempt a production of Beckett with just anyone. It's very delicate material." Brooke Adams learns the dirty truth of Beckett's 'Happy Days' 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z A series of scenes and monologues extracted from the Beckett play “Endgame,” it is a work of utterly assured starkness — confident and patient. The Best Classical Music of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z But we urge the new government to be mindful that arts subsidy is the reason we're able to create outstanding theatre and to develop Beckett's heirs. Arts and the new coalition government 2010-05-21T23:07:00Z 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 "Footfalls," which Beckett sometimes referred to as his "pacing play," features a woman treading back and forth in a ritualized communion with her dying mother's voice. 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 A performance of Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot” had recently been staged in the Lower Ninth Ward. Don’t Call It Katrina 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z 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 The presence of ladies warms Beckett’s prose, though. ‘Echo’s Bones,’ a Beckett Short Story Rediscovered 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z As part of the production I wanted some still pictures of Sam and Max together and asked Beckett if he would mind sitting next to Max. Letters: Happy days 2012-11-08T21:00:04Z For reasons that never make much sense, people with guns are chasing Beckett, whose primary distinction is his ability to evade capture. ‘Beckett’ Review: He Must Go On 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z Beckett’s reputation in the popular mind has been de-spindled and defanged in recent years, thanks to the bumper sticker popularity of a few words he wrote. ‘Echo’s Bones,’ a Beckett Short Story Rediscovered 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z 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 Sharon chose many of the best-known Schubert pieces, and he didn’t stretch too far with the Beckett either. L.A. Phil's revelatory pairing of Beckett and Schubert, 'Night and Dreams' 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z 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 Still, Beckett explored and espoused the poetics of failure. Review: ‘Hand Foot Fizzle Face’ Explores Futility and Disconnection 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z Then, like clowns in Beckett, they went on. Dance Review: Chris Yon and Taryn Griggs Dance at LaMaMa Moves! 2013-06-17T20:44:47Z One review in a German newspaper had the headline: “Chekhov, Beckett, Haidle.” Playwright Noah Haidle blows out his ‘Birthday Candles’ 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Beckett and Freya are also fraternal twins and had separate amniotic sacs, which is why they arrived more than six hours apart, Humenny explained. Twin brother and sister celebrate their 10th birthdays in 2 different years: 'It’s a very strange concept' 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z This season the company is probing the canons of Shakespeare, Miller and Beckett among others. Love Shakespeare and great scenery? Utah Shakespeare fest is just the ticket 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z 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 production's success is somewhat surprising – not least because of stringent rules imposed by the Beckett estate, which demand that it has to be staged as if it were a performance for radio. All That Fall: the Samuel Beckett stage play that isn't 2012-11-07T19:00:01Z Standing members of the audience are covered by black sheeting through which their heads protrude, suggesting an international convention of Winnies from Beckett's Happy Days. Macbeth 2010-04-30T20:35:00Z “The Château” feels like the movie Michael Bay would make out of Beckett. More Russian meddling: Paul Goldberg comic novel, ‘The Château’ 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z 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 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 For more mature minds, if such there be, this production has the virtues of uniformity of style, which is less common in Beckett interpretations than it should be, and gleaming clarity of expression. Review: A ‘Waiting for Godot’ as Comically Futile as a Looney Tune 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z One of her most famous performances was in Beckett's monologue, Not I, in which only her mouth was visible to the theatre audience. Obituary: Billie Whitelaw 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z We traded cards and looked through Becketts together. They arrested me for playing basketball: A personal argument in favor of defunding the police 2020-09-12T04:00:00Z Shades of Beckett, Miró and Dubuffet drift about in the ether; harsh reality and elegant artifice keep each other at bay. The Lower East Side as Petri Dish 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z 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 Now, I adore late Beckett, but it would have been fun if old Sam had been recorded, quietly telling some American professor, "I enjoyed the new Devo long player." Six novelists on their favourite second artform 2013-04-27T07:00:18Z And few actors brought such profound visceral weariness — and agitation — to Beckett’s wordlessness. Onstage, Michael Gambon’s Depth Transcended the Unspoken 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z A British writer, Fiona Beckett, highly recommends cucumber fritters, which I look forward to trying. ‘Listening’ to Sancerre Tell Its Story 2014-05-05T04:00:00Z It showed Beckett watching one of his plays on video and offering suggestions to improve it. John Reilly, 74, a Champion of Documentary Video, Dies 2013-08-12T02:12:58Z Both Beckett and de Beauvoir agreed to the project, with different levels of participation, and the book delves into the sometimes difficult path of writing about the two figures. Pulitzer Prizes: A Guide to the Winning Books and Finalists 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z 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 But those eager for a Beckett brand extension can instead arrive at New York University’s Skirball Center for “Cascando,” an adaptation of a Beckett radio play from the early 1960s. Immersed in ‘Stranger Things,’ Then Strolling to Beckett 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z Fiona Beckett, whose website Matching Food and Wine examines such matters, offers some general recommendations for orange wines, though, to reiterate Jason C.’s point, it’s difficult to speak broadly about this genre. Orange Wines: A Genre With a Large Gray Area 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z This year a Gate festival of plays by Beckett, Harold Pinter and David Mamet, entitled “BPM: The Relish of Language,” is also running through the first half of October. Off Off Off Broadway? Try Dublin 2010-09-04T04:45:00Z Like Beckett’s most memorable characters, the Elder is drawn from a long tradition of absurdist sages, barely lucid but often wise. In the Brutality of the Chinese Countryside, ‘Mythorealism’ Reigns 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z I heard of a professor from Oxford who was trying to get an interview with Beckett in Paris for three years, and finally Beckett agreed to meet him in some cafe. All That Fall: the Samuel Beckett stage play that isn't 2012-11-07T19:00:01Z 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 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 On the other hand, Beckett: James Hayes, as the sad-jowled father who descends stoically into emotion with the caution of a swimmer entering the North Sea, pronounces "Another day over" with gluttonous gloom. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time; Philadelphia, Here I Come!; Playing the Games: Taking Part/After the Party – review 2012-08-04T23:06:09Z 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 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 “It is a nightmare,” Prentice wrote to Beckett. ‘Echo’s Bones,’ a Beckett Short Story Rediscovered 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Beckett was thirty-six at the time, and perhaps best known in literary circles as one of James Joyce’s assistants. The Alternative Facts of Samuel Beckett’s “Watt” 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z A stakeout leads to a smooch on ABC's crime drama "Castle," with Rick Castle and Kate Beckett finally sharing their first kiss. `Castle' alert: Beckett, Castle share first kiss 2010-12-03T23:46:00Z Yes, she speaks Beckett’s text like a violin virtuoso playing Paganini. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Running Their Mouths 2014-01-22T18:00:14Z 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 “Plenty of writers can write a play about a state of mind,” she said in a BBC interview after Beckett’s death in 1989. Billie Whitelaw, Longtime Beckett Muse, Dies at 82 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z It’s so Beckett, who took everything from the normal world. Critic’s Notebook: Happy Days Beckett Festival Arrives in Northern Ireland 2012-08-27T21:49:32Z The monologue was written for this show by the playwright Mark O’Halloran, and it’s pretty good ersatz Beckett. ‘Lippy,’ a Chilly Play From Ireland's Dead Centre 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z It’s not clear that Beckett wanted “Echo’s Bones” ever to see the light of day. ‘Echo’s Bones,’ a Beckett Short Story Rediscovered 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Survival against the odds … Dark Eden by Chris Beckett It's not just dark on Eden. Darkness in literature: Chris Beckett's Dark Eden 2012-12-18T13:01:36Z 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 He said he didn’t see his own life playing out in his new Beckett opera, and yet he felt that Mrs. Kurtag and himself were present in the piece. A 92-Year-Old Composer’s First Opera Is His ‘Endgame’ 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z In its April catalog, the “Jenna’s Picks” page showed Jenna Lyons, the company’s creative director, playing with her barefoot son, Beckett, 4 ½. Boys Will Be Boys? Not in These Families. 2011-06-10T20:12:56Z 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 Beckett passed his time playing chess, going for long walks, and working in a neighboring farmer’s fields in return for food. The Alternative Facts of Samuel Beckett’s “Watt” 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z “There are certain things Beckett demands, but they’re simple, elemental things. That leads you to try to find the definitive in the object.” A rock. A road. A tree. How set designers for 20th century’s most famous play change it up. 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z Beckett included copious stage directions alongside the gnomic dialogue as the characters discuss, with dark humor, the meaninglessness of the human condition. A 92-Year-Old Composer’s First Opera Is His ‘Endgame’ 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z Or at least not until I saw the Druid Theater’s production of Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot,” part of the White Light Festival at Lincoln Center. Review: A ‘Waiting for Godot’ as Comically Futile as a Looney Tune 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z Staying at the Citizens, Krapp's Last Tape and Footfalls is the Beckett double bill that marks the end of Dominic Hill's first season there. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2012-05-25T16:48:54Z Working with the same crew, Findley again directs the gifted actress Mary Ewald, who last time unnervingly channeled Beckett as in a waking dream. Reviews: 'Pinter and Beckett,' 'An Adult Evening of Shel Silverstein' 2010-05-20T20:13:00Z Yet the perspective that infuses them is as bleak as anything from those greatest of theatrical modernists, Beckett and Chekhov. Review: A Heartbreaker Returns in ‘The Young Man From Atlanta’ 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z Now the Harry Ransom Center, the same library where Mr. Coetzee did his research on Beckett, has acquired Mr. Coetzee’s papers. ArtsBeat Blog: University of Texas Acquires Coetzee's Papers 2011-10-10T16:38:07Z “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 “I flew to Paris with my father, and we all met at a cafe. I remember Beckett didn’t seem to like Avedon much. He said he’d only do the portrait if I was in it.” The Last Days of Beckett’s, a Smoky New York Literary Salon 2023-04-01T04:00:00Z 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 “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 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 If Sophocles, Shakespeare and Beckett don't fit a definition of literature, then surely it's the definition that's lacking. Are plays proper literature? 2010-05-27T14:13:00Z 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 He began acting, performed in several Beckett plays while still in prison, and eventually met the playwright in the mid-1970s in Paris. Rick Cluchey Dies at 82; Prison Theater Was His Redemption 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z Beckett is the no-nonsense detective ordered to work with him. `Castle' alert: Beckett, Castle share first kiss 2010-12-03T23:46:00Z 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 Mr. Rosset declined to discuss the specifics of the Beckett’s business model, but said the money that guests kicked in had allowed him to make “enough to feed me and my cat.” The Last Days of Beckett’s, a Smoky New York Literary Salon 2023-04-01T04:00:00Z In November 1971, at her first meeting with Beckett, he observed, “So you are the one who is going to reveal me for the charlatan that I am.” Learning the Wiles of a Biographer, With Beckett and Beauvoir 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z Unlike Beckett, one of her formative influences, Fornés wasn't a virtuoso of a signature set of themes and practices. María Irene Fornés, ever the teacher, continues to instruct 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z 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 Chekhov’s characters cavort in dachas, while Beckett’s take up residence in trash cans — but they all feel the stifling dread and purposelessness of existence. Avant-Garde Theater, or a Musical: Who Says You Need to Choose? 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z 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 It was like Beckett, so open and mysterious. Sheila Heti: 'I love dirty books' 2013-01-19T17:30:01Z O’Keane’s account seeks to dethrone theory, taking as its credo a line from Beckett: “I am not an intellectual. All I am is feeling.” A Lucid, Literary Illustration of the Complex, Beautiful Work of Memory 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z Once the war ended, Beckett would embark on the most productive and artistically significant decade of his career, writing “Waiting for Godot” and a trilogy of novels—“Molloy,” “Malone Dies,” and “The Unnameable.” The Alternative Facts of Samuel Beckett’s “Watt” 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z Beckett’s idea was to start a group called Protection of Earth. 2 kid activists raise awareness and money to help save the rainforest 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z In genre terms, “Beckett” is a thriller, if one that’s light on thrills. ‘Beckett’ Review: He Must Go On 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z Rosset also attempted an ambitious union of film and avant-garde literature, short works written by Beckett, Eugene Ionesco and Harold Pinter. First Amendment crusader Barney Rosset dies 2012-02-22T17:03:09Z Seeing “Mojo” and the Beckett plays on the same day had me thinking about the chemistry of words as they are spoken on stage, and their power to alter our metabolisms. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Running Their Mouths 2014-01-22T18:00:14Z That conclusion is based on the content of Susan Charlotte’s gentle, well-meaning one-act play, “She’s of a Certain Age,” being presented by Cause Célèbre and Mary J. Davis at the Beckett Theater. Theater Review: ‘She’s of a Certain Age’ at the Beckett Theater 2012-05-24T23:09:29Z Or do even original artists like Beckett stand on the shoulders of other intellectual giants, which would suggest that his works should quickly become part of the social commons for others to build upon? A clash of two copyrights 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z In its interview with him, The Paris Review said Mr. Mathews “rightfully belongs to the experimentalist tradition of Kafka, Beckett and Joyce.” Harry Mathews, Idiosyncratic Writer, Dies at 86 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z Asked if he knew who Beckett was, the reply was immediate: “For sure,” he said, “one of our writers — though he lived in Paris a lot.” Off Off Off Broadway? Try Dublin 2010-09-04T04:45:00Z "Beckett's handwriting is famously illegible and became even more so as he got older. It very much depended on what sort of evening he was having - and how many bottles were close by." Why did Samuel Beckett draw doodles? 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z It’s the same kind of nihilistic view that Beckett had, with similar linguistic play, but it’s so much more meaningful because it’s used to reveal how race is its own trap, a purgatory, in America. Welcoming Back Live Theater Doesn’t Mean Agreeing About All of It 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z But in staging so many plays at one go, he writes, there were signs of haste that would have driven “the famously stringent Beckett mad.” Essential Arts & Culture: 'Zoot Suit' anew, art and the travel ban, Jimmie Durham's timely sculptures 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z Photograph: c20thCFox/Everett/Rex Features When male grooming mogul Damian Wilder is found perplexingly bludgeoned, shot and burgled, it looks like Castle and Beckett might need a third brain to help unravel it all. TV highlights 28/12/2012 2012-12-21T10:08:17Z “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 The story’s pleasures are real, however, and reside in Beckett’s full tilt, Devil-ready language. ‘Echo’s Bones,’ a Beckett Short Story Rediscovered 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z My first encounter with Beckett was when I was studying in Minnesota and I acted in a student production of Krapp's Last Tape. Nick Clegg: My hero Samuel Beckett 2010-04-30T21:00:00Z Like Beckett’s voice from the void, many of today’s unnamed characters are trying to convince themselves, perhaps futilely, of the realness of their existence. The Rise of the Nameless Narrator 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z Fornés’s surrealistic style, like Beckett’s or Ionesco’s, favors quips and epigrams. Review: The Many Unusual Stages of ‘Fefu and Her Friends’ 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z “All we did was tart up a hole and claim it was an abyss,” Beckett types. Review: In ‘Textplay,’ Stoppard and Beckett Get Snarky, FWIW 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z But there’s a cheerfulness in the chaos that, curiously, harks back to the days of pre-“Virginia Woolf” absurdism, when the young Albee was still in the thrall of Beckett and Ionesco. Review: George and Martha Redux in ‘Everyone’s Fine With Virginia Woolf’ 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z But in Vladimir and Estragon, Beckett also finds poignancy, humor and the last dregs of physical love, where Elliott and company find only horror. Review: ‘Waiting for Godot’ in the Bleakest Zoom Room Ever 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z Back to Beckett, for the ultimate rendering of life as a confining trap from which no one escapes. Finding the Sweet, Stinging Salt in Plays of Confinement 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z 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 In his stage directions, Beckett spent 195 words choreographing some horseplay involving hats. ‘Waiting for Godot’ Review: Old Friends Falling in and Out of Sync 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z 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 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 There are resonances and divergences among “Act Without Words II,” “Come and Go,” “Catastrophe,” “Footfalls” and “Krapp’s Last Tape” that help to fill out a complex picture of Beckett’s artistry. 'Beckett 5' at the Odyssey: five plays, two hours, one sinister ending 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z Many of these are musical, alluding to Beckett’s passion for classical and romantic music, particularly the work of Schubert, whose “Winterreise” he revered, and which is performed each year. In Northern Ireland, a Celebration of Samuel Beckett 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z 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 These intimate tales are also poorly served by the set, designed by Brett J. Banakis, which exposes the Beckett Theater’s high ceiling and puts much of the action on the higher of two levels. Theater Review: ‘Lovers’ by Brian Friel at Beckett Theater 2012-09-30T21:01:17Z If I was to pay homage to Beckett's ultimate note – "Don't act" – I'd have to find my own entry point. Beckett's Not I: how I became the ultimate motormouth 2013-05-08T18:30:01Z At 59, Ritchie lacks Beckett’s craggy, deeply lined complexion, but the kinship with the playwright is clear. As Center Theatre Group turns 50, an artistic director plots the second act (Hint: Think Hollywood) 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z 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 Beckett won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1969 for "writing, which - in new forms for the novel and drama - in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation". Beckett manuscript sells at auction 2013-07-10T11:44:24Z Her husband David Beckett said she died "peacefully" in a Manchester hospital. Roache plans TV tribute to Kirkbride 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z If he might have seemed to represent the perennially dependable sidekick, Beckett was an independent force in his own right. Harry Beckett obituary 2010-07-26T17:38:00Z "He belongs with Joyce, Yeats, Shaw and Beckett in the pantheon of our greatest literary exponents." Ireland mourns 'keeper of language' poet Seamus Heaney 2013-08-30T17:44:08Z Coetzee's dissertation was on the early fiction of Beckett and he did much of his research in the Ransom Center. APNewsBreak: Univ. of Texas buys Coetzee archive 2011-10-09T21:16:03Z 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 Jackson spends his days caring for 1-year-old Beckett, and he finds it far more taxing than his former 12-hour office days: “I’m sore all the time.” Aging in place: Many of us feel way older than we did just weeks ago 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z Others, such as Beckett and Harold Pinter, took a more surreal approach to distilling the neurotic preoccupations of the characters they put on stage. A new discovery for science and art: the cultural divide is all in the mind 2012-11-24T16:02:57Z He smiled and spoke of Beckett, Joyce and of the fallen stones and blustery coasts of Ireland. 'Calvary' could mark a signature role in Brendan Gleeson's career 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z The bill of five short works in “Beckett 5,” clocking in at just under two hours at the Odyssey Theatre, certainly rounds out an evening of theater. 'Beckett 5' at the Odyssey: five plays, two hours, one sinister ending 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z "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 Now, almost 60 years after making her debut as a child actor at a Michigan theater run by her father, Adams finds herself up to her neck in Beckett as the star of "Happy Days." Brooke Adams learns the dirty truth of Beckett's 'Happy Days' 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z Beckett, a Protestant Dubliner not associated with the struggles between Catholic Nationalists and pro-British Protestants that tore Northern Ireland apart before a 1998 peace deal, attracts audiences from both sides of the border. Beckett link brings 'Happy Days' back to Northern Irish town 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z And it goes further back, to the teenage Warchus discovering a passion for theatre as he encountered Brecht and Beckett and improvised work, although went to see Andrew Lloyd Webber shows for his birthday treats. Matilda: Thank heaven for little girls 2010-12-27T22:00:00Z Nothing could teach him, Beckett writes, “not to spit and dig for clotted mucus in the presence of ladies.” ‘Echo’s Bones,’ a Beckett Short Story Rediscovered 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z 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 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 In the Beckett trilogy, which is transferring to the Duchess Theater for a limited West Engagement in February, Ms. Dwan doesn’t just uncover layers; she digs all the way to the void beneath them. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Running Their Mouths 2014-01-22T18:00:14Z She stopped performing Beckett's works when he died in 1989 but she remained the keeper of his flame through her one-woman lecture tours. Obituary: Billie Whitelaw 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z 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 As things shook out, Beckett’s wasn’t over quite yet. The Last Days of Beckett’s, a Smoky New York Literary Salon 2023-04-01T04:00:00Z Charlie Chaplin – inspiration for the tramps in Waiting for Godot – appears in them, as does James Joyce, who visited Beckett daily in hospital in Paris. Samuel Beckett's Murphy draft bought by Reading University for £1m 2013-07-10T17:36:35Z He diddled with Ayckbourn while wanting to lunge towards Shakespeare or Beckett. Rewind TV: The Tony Blair Interview With Andrew Marr; The Hunt for Britain's Sex Traffickers; I Am Slave 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z His influences owe more to high modernists like Beckett, Joyce and Burroughs than to 19th-century social realists. ‘Satin Island,’ by Tom McCarthy 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z So the entire original collection was donated by Beckett himself. Samuel Beckett's Murphy draft bought by Reading University for £1m 2013-07-10T17:36:35Z Throughout, Ms. Hay makes sounds, humming or chanting melodies that hint at sadness and elation, and quotes Beckett with a Southern accent: “Strictly speaking I believe I’ve never been anywhere.” Dance Review | Deborah Hay: Deborah Hay Explores Fleeting States at Danspace Project 2010-03-26T22:22:00Z Comparisons with James Joyce and Samuel Beckett have become commonplace. James Kelman 2012-07-29T19:00:01Z Davis’s approach to writing, and to teaching writing, is virtually all there in her brief account of discovering Beckett. For Lydia Davis, Language Is Character 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z They include the whimsical, intricate visions of James Flames the gothic fantasia of Richey Beckett and the sleek modernist stylings of Invisible Creature, encompassing a cornucopia of styles, moods and motifs. ‘OMG Posters: A Decade of Rock Art’ 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z As an actor, he ranged from Shakespeare to Beckett, from Broadway to soap operas, most notably as Father Matt on “Days of Our Lives.” Ralph Waite, Patriarch in TV Series ‘The Waltons,’ Dies at 85 2014-02-14T06:00:50Z Or you'll suddenly get a letter from her on a grey day, telling you something Beckett once said to her in Paris. Doyenne of Irish fiction 2011-02-06T00:05:42Z Beckett, who spent a year archiving the material, says there were some surprises, including a small notepad outlining his novel Millennium People. JG Ballard: Relics of a red-hot mind 2011-08-04T08:17:13Z 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 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 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 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 The work of Beckett is an invitation to think, and it’s an invitation Mr. Lipman accepts with alacrity. Review: ‘Notfilm’ Tells How Beckett and Keaton Collaborated 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z It's not that Beckett describes the darkness at length, in great swooping passages of beautiful prose; he doesn't. Darkness in literature: Chris Beckett's Dark Eden 2012-12-18T13:01:36Z There comes a point, near the end of the show, when the stage plunges into inky blackness and Etheridge tells the story of the death of her 21-year-old son, Beckett, in 2020. ‘My Window’ Review: An Out-and-Proud Trailblazer Finds Her Way 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z The Quantum Leap project is restarted and the original hero, Sam Beckett, is still missing, so a Scott Bakula guest appearance seems pretty much preordained. 41 TV Shows to Watch This Fall 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z 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 Maybe it’s most accurate to think of this as extreme Beckett. Theater Review: ‘Sounding Beckett,’ at the Classic Stage Company 2012-09-19T21:30:20Z Or, in Beckett’s words, “I too shall cease and be as when I was not yet, only all over instead of in store.” Jenny Diski’s Way of Seeing Beyond the Story 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z Get your act together and think like a playwright; Mamet, Fry, Beckett! Watch my lips: the art of ventriloquism deserves centre stage 2010-08-27T10:02:00Z 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 To 99 percent of the population, Beckett means ‘difficult,’ ‘not for me,’ ‘can’t understand it.’ Critic’s Notebook: Happy Days Beckett Festival Arrives in Northern Ireland 2012-08-27T21:49:32Z 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 In repeatedly instructing "No colour" or "Don't act", Beckett requires us to offer up our entire nervous systems – our "centre", as Billie calls it. Beckett's Not I: how I became the ultimate motormouth 2013-05-08T18:30:01Z A group of women in fur coats stepped out of a black S.U.V. and tried to talk their way inside, only to be told by the volunteers at the door that Beckett’s was over capacity. The Last Days of Beckett’s, a Smoky New York Literary Salon 2023-04-01T04:00:00Z As if to prove the point, the Albanians cut off the head of one of their female slaves and left it in the bed of Beckett's feckless son. Rewind TV: The Fear; The Town; A Young Doctor's Notebook; The Secret Life of Rubbish; Imagine... Jeanette Winterson: My Monster and Me; Inside Claridge's – review 2012-12-09T00:06:09Z 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 Chaucer portrays a group of pilgrims on their way from London to the shrine of Thomas Beckett in Canterbury. Why did Chaucer not make it into Treasures of Heaven? 2011-08-05T13:31:37Z "Beckett established these dire circumstances for Winnie, but she finds a way to keep her relationship alive, and still find joy in living," Ewald reflects. Beckett's 'Happy Days' to go on stage at New City Theater 2012-03-01T21:03:04Z And, brooding over her like a tiny Easter Island statue, Madge, her old bridesmaid, as wordless and existential as a Beckett character. Perspective | With devastating quips, Dame Edna foretold a vacuous era of fame 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z It was 1986, I think, and I was taken by a teacher to the basement, where they were doing a Beckett workshop. Irrfan Khan: Mira Nair Remembers Her ‘Namesake’ Star 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z 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 But this is Beckett, after all, and the story turns out to be more of a tragicomic meditation on life and death. Arts, Briefly: Samuel Beckett at 59E59 Theaters 2013-08-05T13:00:00Z “They will see the connections as such an inevitability. They won’t be able to hear Schubert without thinking of Beckett.” Finding the music in Beckett, the drama in Schubert: Let the L.A. Phil's experiment begin 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z 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 “We didn’t want to do a radical reimagining, but an honest response to what Beckett wanted,” O’Connor says. A rock. A road. A tree. How set designers for 20th century’s most famous play change it up. 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z 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 Beckett, prone to anxiety, suffered a mental breakdown. The Alternative Facts of Samuel Beckett’s “Watt” 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z Theater in Quarantine only recently added words to its repertoire; in May it presented “an unauthorized edit” of Beckett’s “Krapp’s Last Tape.” Review: A Sci-Fi Classic Featuring a Multiverse of Stooges 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z Beckett’s ruthlessly nihilistic “geriatric farce,” “Happy Days,” is unconsolingly arid but, perhaps, necessarily corrective. What Matters in Old Age: Rereading, Reconsidering and Reassessing 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z 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 As with Beckett’s other work, it’s a existential disquisition on the meaning of life, in which a codependent couple take shelter from a senseless world. Daniel Radcliffe Does Not Have Coronavirus 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z At their best, her sentences call to mind something Beckett said about Joyce’s more cloistered work: “His writing is not about something; it is that something itself.” Review: In Jorie’s Graham’s ‘From the New World,’ Flux Is a Whirling Constant 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z “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 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 At the time we only had six books in the collection so Beckett would give him things and Jim would drive them back to England. Samuel Beckett's Murphy draft bought by Reading University for £1m 2013-07-10T17:36:35Z Beckett's Act Without Words II has been performed outside the stage door of the Gaiety theatre, with the characters not tramp-like in sacks but homeless in sleeping bags. Ulster Bank Dublin theatre festival? review 2010-10-16T23:06:00Z 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 Such a dichotomous nature proves handy in the consideration of Beckett, whose creative lineage embraces not only the literary convolutions of his onetime employer James Joyce but also the pratfalls of vaudeville. Review: Wrestling With a Master in ‘On Beckett’ 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z 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 For one thing, Mom turns out to be less an existential prisoner than Beckett’s Winnie was. Review: Jason Craig’s ‘Longyarn’ Features a Mom Who Won’t Shut Up 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z In Waiting for Godot "critic" is the ultimate insult exchanged between Vladimir and Estragon, but Beckett intended it as a joke. Is the age of the critic over? 2011-01-30T00:07:09Z Low point: "When I lose a subject I love, like Beckett." John Minihan's best photograph 2012-08-15T17:15:55Z On Saturday, Morris’s company offered the United States premiere of his staging of “Quad,” a wordless television play that Beckett wrote in 1981. Mark Morris Dance Group Debuts ‘Water’ in Its Element 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z Beckett won the Nobel prize for literature in 1969 for "writing, which – in new forms for the novel and drama – in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation". Samuel Beckett manuscript offers 'intimate' look into his mind 2013-06-04T13:28:16Z Shortly thereafter they were together in Berlin, where Mr. Cluchey observed as Beckett directed “Godot,” and they spent time walking the streets and chatting in cafes. Rick Cluchey Dies at 82; Prison Theater Was His Redemption 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z He also tried his hand at theater directing, putting on a well-received program of Beckett and Ionesco plays in Los Angeles in 1961. Dean Stockwell of ‘Quantum Leap,’ ‘Blue Velvet’ dies at 85 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z In the meantime I have been asked to write something on Beckett. Here and Now: Letters by Paul Auster & JM Coetzee – digested read 2013-05-26T13:00:02Z 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 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 Beckett downshifted into a new language and achieved a brilliant sort of estrangement. Review: Jhumpa Lahiri’s ‘In Other Words,’ a Writer’s Headlong Immersion Into Italian 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z The trustees from the Beckett estate, who were present to make sure the master's wishes were being adhered to, let it pass. All That Fall: the Samuel Beckett stage play that isn't 2012-11-07T19:00:01Z 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 I characterised it so regularly in print as the infectious sound of someone quietly chuckling that I began to wonder if even the perpetually genial Beckett might get irritated by the comparison. Harry Beckett obituary 2010-07-26T17:38:00Z In 1956, as Beckett was writing it, he described it as “Rather difficult and elliptic, mostly depending on the power of the text to claw, more inhuman than ‘Godot.’” ‘Endgame’ Review: A Laugh at the Apocalypse? 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z 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 Shining a light into Beckett from a different angle, she illuminates a different part of the rest of us as well. When Disability Isn’t a Special Need but a Special Skill 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z 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 “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 The festival entails examinations of Beckett’s work and others inspired by the author. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z Beckett’s solitary landmark, a barren tree, is replaced here on Wilson Chin’s stark set by a single lamppost, under which Moses spins dreams of a “promised land” for Smallwood’s emotionally dependent Kitch. Review | ‘Pass Over’ opens — the first Broadway play in what feels like forever. And it’s funny and poignant. 2021-08-22T04:00:00Z 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 Eight decades later, Grove, Beckett’s stalwart American publisher, is issuing “Echo’s Bones” for the first time. ‘Echo’s Bones,’ a Beckett Short Story Rediscovered 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Its cold-eyed fury made me think of Goya, and it jibed with a lot of my favorite literature, mostly Beckett, whose work has been influential for Mr. Nauman. Bruce Nauman, Art Provocateur, Returns. Are You Ready? 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z Or, to purloin a line from his novel: Are we all characters in a Beckett play directed by Sartre? David Duchovny’s Truth Is Out There, Between Covers 2018-04-28T04:00:00Z 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 To its adherents, Beckett’s had become a downtown sanctuary for the city’s creative underclass. The Last Days of Beckett’s, a Smoky New York Literary Salon 2023-04-01T04:00:00Z How best to describe this upstart avatar of Beckett’s bleakly comic worldview? Review: ‘Krapp’s Last Tape,’ a Melancholy Tone Poem 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z 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 In Remembering and Imagining the Holocaust, Christopher Bigsby identifies him as a link between Kafka and Beckett. Chris Power 2011-08-25T11:15:00Z South Africa-born Beckett was living in a caravan in a Carmelite monastery in Norfolk, east England, when she started studying art in the 1980s, according to the BBC, which broadcast her documentaries. Sister Wendy Beckett, nun and TV art critic, dies at 88 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z “May B,” the first major dance work to be presented at the festival, was directly inspired by Beckett. Northern Ireland Town Embraces Beckett Festival 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Beckett completed a draft of “Watt” on December 28th, but he had great difficulty finding a home for his strange book. The Alternative Facts of Samuel Beckett’s “Watt” 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z 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 In 1972, shortly after Beckett wrote Not I, the American actor Jessica Tandy played the role. Beckett's Not I: how I became the ultimate motormouth 2013-05-08T18:30:01Z Martin, meanwhile, channels Beckett or Ionesco as he lectures on “space and time. Spacetime.” In Don DeLillo’s New Novel, Technology Is Dead. Civilization Might Be, Too. 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Nunn’s production, because of restrictions set by the Beckett estate, is presented in the form of a live radio play, with actors holding scripts and using minimal props. Arts, Briefly: Samuel Beckett at 59E59 Theaters 2013-08-05T13:00:00Z It’s apt, then, that Coffey takes as the starting point for this genre-bending rumination a failed — or at least unfinished — manuscript, “Long Observation of the Ray,” that Beckett abandoned in 1976. Three Literary Critics Who Engage With Their Subjects, Unconventionally 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z The Murphy manuscript was bought for almost £1m at auction last year by the University of Reading, which houses the The Beckett Collection - the world's largest archive of resources on the writer. Why did Samuel Beckett draw doodles? 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z 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 This is entirely apt, because time, in all its ornery complexity, fleeting and ponderous, slipping through the fingers even as it weighs upon the soul, is a central theme in Beckett’s 1958 one-act. | 'Krapp?s Last Tape': ?Krapp?s Last Tape,? With John Hurt, at BAM - Review 2011-12-09T03:01:00Z The encounter set him on a lifelong journey, studying Beckett’s works and creating music inspired by them. A 92-Year-Old Composer’s First Opera Is His ‘Endgame’ 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z A habit of self-censorship, to misquote Beckett, "is the ballast that chains a dog to his vomit." The rise and fall of Bing Dwen Dwen, Beijing's insidious Olympics mascot 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z Beckett tried out "The sun shone, as only the sun can, on nothing new", working through various alternatives before ending up with: "The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new." Samuel Beckett manuscript offers 'intimate' look into his mind 2013-06-04T13:28:16Z Hundreds of Beckett devotees from around the world are expected to descend on the waterside town for its third annual festival, joining thousands more from around Ireland. Beckett link brings 'Happy Days' back to Northern Irish town 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z 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 The Los Angeles Philharmonic brought the two together in the production “Night and Dreams: A Schubert & Beckett Recital,” directed by Yuval Sharon. 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 "The idea of an abandoned colony on a distant planet is a great SF trope, and Chris Beckett is unflinching in answering the challenges posed by his original 'what if?' concept," said Hunter. Chris Beckett wins Arthur C Clarke award for Dark Eden 2013-05-01T20:01:01Z Beckett even at the butcher, where a sign proclaims “Happy Days Food Festival” alongside “Fermanagh Black Bacon.” In Northern Ireland, a Celebration of Samuel Beckett 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z "Alone together, so much shared" as Beckett once wrote. Bedroom Farce | Theatre reivew 2010-04-04T21:10:00Z It’s very difficult to think of Beckett, and that particular articulation of nihilism, without the First World War. Will Self, on himself 2012-08-20T11:45:00Z But signs of haste and the kinds of carelessness that used to drive the famously stringent Beckett mad undermine the effectiveness of some of the acting. 'Beckett 5' at the Odyssey: five plays, two hours, one sinister ending 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z 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 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 Aspects of Beckett the playwright permeate Beckett’s novels, making them promising sources for Arcane Collective’s silent-movie approach. Review: Arcane Collective Turns a Beckett Trilogy Into Physical Theater 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z 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 Morris turns Beckett’s dark slapstick into a kind of folk dance. Mark Morris Dance Group Debuts ‘Water’ in Its Element 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z Beckett was fascinated and troubled by the mechanical reproduction, by the ways various recording machines both assuage and intensify the alienation of modern life. Review: ‘Notfilm’ Tells How Beckett and Keaton Collaborated 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z I want to do a world-class festival every year that, like Shakespeare and Stratford, or Mozart and Salzburg, will simply mean Beckett and Enniskillen.” Critic’s Notebook: Happy Days Beckett Festival Arrives in Northern Ireland 2012-08-27T21:49:32Z 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 “Dollar Store” and “Beckett” celebrate the innocence of their children. Walker Hayes isn’t afraid to sing about struggling, and it’s making him a success 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z At 5 months of age, encephalitis left Katie Beckett spending most of her early years in the hospital. Motherlode Blog: Because of Katie Beckett, Children with Severe Disabilities Can Live At Home 2012-06-06T14:17:45Z 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 Harold Bloom called him a descendant of Laurence Sterne, and Philip Roth compared him to Beckett. A Master Storyteller From 19th-Century Brazil, Heir to the Greats and Entirely Sui Generis 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z 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 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 In the 1950s, the choreographer Merce Cunningham became an early exponent of what would become the Theater of the Absurd, alongside the playwrights Beckett, Ionesco and Pinter. Review: Merce Cunningham’s ‘Crises’ Opens Dance at the New Whitney 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z Pinter, like Beckett, was preternaturally skilled at the art of compression, stripping his writing so that it was all lean muscle, no flab. Remembering theater director and Royal Shakespeare founder Peter Hall, who turned language into life 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z 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 Perhaps we have always lived in ages of dubiety, but Beckett’s quote is particularly apt in describing the last 60 years. His Life Was Too Boring for a Memoir. So He Wrote Ireland’s. 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z Beckett calls for a recorded voice for much of the monologue; Ms. Hunter performs all of it live. | 'Fragments': ?Fragments? at Baryshnikov Arts Center - Review 2011-11-15T22:05:03Z Beckett joined Collier's group in 1961 and became his muse for the next 16 years. Harry Beckett obituary 2010-07-26T17:38:00Z Keeping with the either/or aspect of Beckett's text, Castellucci then proceeded to continually contradict the action. 'Neither,' ignored in U.S., gets extravagant German staging 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z In addition, Beckett did not like his words set to music, and Feldman did not like setting words to music. 'Neither,' ignored in U.S., gets extravagant German staging 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z Its contemporary grooves and dancefloor ambiance might have surprised the trumpeter's jazz-rooted fans, but The Modern Sound of Harry Beckett only reflected the warmth and curiosity that had characterised the Barbadian's open-handedness from the start. Harry Beckett obituary 2010-07-26T17:38:00Z Beckett and Freya aren’t the first twins to be born in different years. Twin brother and sister celebrate their 10th birthdays in 2 different years: 'It’s a very strange concept' 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z I first heard about Not I in my teens, from the great Beckett actor Stephen Brennan. Beckett's Not I: how I became the ultimate motormouth 2013-05-08T18:30:01Z It is the first multiarts appreciation of Beckett, Mr. Doran said, and the first to aspire to be an annual event. Critic’s Notebook: Happy Days Beckett Festival Arrives in Northern Ireland 2012-08-27T21:49:32Z 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 “Beckett demands your intellect, if not your soul.” Kirk Douglas Theatre's 2015-2016 season: 'Straight White Men,' Courtney Love 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z But as with Beckett at the same age, the deeply etched lines in Knausgaard’s face are already his most prominent feature. Norway's Proust 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z A professor and blogger for the London School of Economics, Charlie Beckett, challenged the comedian’s argument that local journalism has a moral function. John Oliver’s newspaper rant hits a nerve: “We’ve watched it being not-so-slowly destroyed by forces beyond our control” 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z 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 Beckett ends “Watt” with an “Addenda,” containing “precious and illuminating material” not included in the main text because of “fatigue and disgust.” The Alternative Facts of Samuel Beckett’s “Watt” 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z He’s organized a recital with a twist, staging Schubert songs and short Beckett plays on a single stage. Opera’s Disrupter in Residence, Heading to Bayreuth 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z "This is the hardest thing I've ever taken on," she says, "With Beckett it's not just a text, it's like learning an incredibly detailed piece of music." Beckett's 'Happy Days' to go on stage at New City Theater 2012-03-01T21:03:04Z That week, Beckett’s preschool was holding its Christmas pageant and Miller was in a concert. What Drives Stella McCartney 2012-02-22T11:58:00Z It can be argued that the seeds of that flowering were planted in “Watt,” and that those seeds were fertilized by Beckett’s experience of the war. The Alternative Facts of Samuel Beckett’s “Watt” 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z The current revival at A Noise Within, using a smooth and relatively new translation by Irish playwright Conor McPherson that's tinged with Beckett, softens some of the savagery. A kinder, gentler 'Dance of Death' at A Noise Within 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z "I have a massive feeling for Beckett and for this play," she says. All That Fall: the Samuel Beckett stage play that isn't 2012-11-07T19:00:01Z If their rituals recall Beckett’s tramps in “Waiting for Godot,” they also reference plantation America and biblical Egypt; this is a tragedy too big for any one era to encompass. 10 Works Over 5 Years by Black Playwrights. All Intended to Unnerve. 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z Like much of Beckett’s work, “Watt” is funny and bleak and also uncompromising in its indifference to such readerly comforts as plot and accessibility. The Alternative Facts of Samuel Beckett’s “Watt” 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z While watching “Pass Over” at the August Wilson Theater, I realized the main conversation Nwandu was having was not with Beckett but with another formidable playwright: herself. Finding Redemption and Rebirth on the Road to Broadway 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z Scotland Yard chief Bernard Hogan-Howe was awarded a knighthood; former British foreign minister Margaret Beckett was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. McCartney, 'God particle' scientist get honors 2012-12-29T01:53:02Z Her unflinching perusal of the existential void is leavened by the dark whorls of poetry, the zigzags of wit and the musicality of Beckett's 1961 text. In 'Happy Days,' character is buried in sand, wrestling with life 2012-03-14T20:22:04Z But some paintings provoked a lot: memories of his experiences in Trinidad, and thoughts about writers who occupy him—Beckett, or Brodsky, who was one of his great friends. A Trinidadian Friendship: Derek Walcott and Peter Doig 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z It was the company’s attachment to Beckett, however, that established it as a theater troupe. Frederick Neumann, Actor and Director, Dies at 86 2012-12-06T21:12:13Z He went on as a graduate student to Warwick University, where he "began to read feminism, structuralism, the nouveau roman, Beckett" and "started thinking more independently". A life in writing: Jonathan Coe 2010-05-28T23:06:00Z With his ability to blend seeming opposites, Briers would have been perfectly suited to Beckett's comic vision of the apocalypse. Richard Briers was a potent presence on stage, as well as in The Good Life 2013-02-18T16:04:36Z “Catastrophe,” oddly enough for a work that is something of an outlier in the Beckett canon, made the biggest impression. 'Beckett 5' at the Odyssey: five plays, two hours, one sinister ending 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z Gavin Bryars is this edition’s composer in residence, and last Saturday he and a six-member ensemble performed his beautiful new “Beckett Songbook,” for which he set seven of the author’s poems to music. In Northern Ireland, a Celebration of Samuel Beckett 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z Beckett’s editor at Chatto & Windus, Charles Prentice, found the new story Beckett delivered, “Echo’s Bones,” to resemble less a comely infant than a troubling heap of placenta and broken forceps. ‘Echo’s Bones,’ a Beckett Short Story Rediscovered 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z But if I learned anything it was that theatre is at its best when, as with Phaedra, Beckett and Pinter, it offers real passion and verbal power. Dublin theatre festival takes the recession seriously 2010-10-11T15:44:00Z 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 Charlie Beckett on the LSE blog states he "cannot remember a more staged start to a general election campaign than today". Noises off: Politics casts the die on theatre's fate 2010-04-22T16:53:00Z The production returned to Dublin and London in 2006, and Mr. Hurt also starred in the film version directed by Atom Egoyan as part of the “Beckett on Film” anthology conceived by Mr. Colgan. | 'Krapp?s Last Tape': ?Krapp?s Last Tape,? With John Hurt, at BAM - Review 2011-12-09T03:01:00Z "It's not necessarily about creating a new audience for Beckett, but a new platform for his work," he said. Beckett link brings 'Happy Days' back to Northern Irish town 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z So, too, did Beckett, whom Parks also cites. Missing the point of the reality of fiction 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z Beckett joined the planned attack, but the Germans, like Godot, never showed. The Alternative Facts of Samuel Beckett’s “Watt” 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z 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 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 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 Beckett had a reputation for shunning biographers, but Bair found him obliging, if prone to mysterious disappearances and flashes of pique. Beckett, Beauvoir and a Biographer’s Bumpy Takeoff 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z He possesses an imaginative ingenuity and charm similar to that of, say, Paul Auster or Italo Calvino, with bits of Kafka, Borges and Beckett mixed in. The narrative seductiveness of Zoran Zivkovic 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z Ms. Cohn was a student at the Sorbonne in 1953 when she discovered Beckett, an unknown playwright at the time. Ruby Cohn, Theater Scholar and Beckett Authority, Dies at 89 2011-10-30T23:41:58Z It began when James Knowlson, a young academic working in the French department, decided to mount a Beckett exhibition, after the writer was awarded a Nobel prize for literature in 1969. Samuel Beckett's Murphy draft bought by Reading University for £1m 2013-07-10T17:36:35Z Beckett couldn’t abide academic interpretations of his work. A triumphant ‘Endgame’ for Beckett veteran Alan Mandell 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z 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 Beckett didn't originally intend for these works to be performed together. 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 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 He's nominated for "Locker," both in the sound editing category and with Ray Beckett for sound mixing. "Avatar" faces tough rivals for tech Oscars 2010-02-19T07:00:00Z As for Beckett and Freya, they think it’s a fun story to tell their friends. Twin brother and sister celebrate their 10th birthdays in 2 different years: 'It’s a very strange concept' 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z Beckett agrees that rosé is extremely food-friendly and offers a comprehensive pairing guide based on different shades and styles of pink. Rosé loves the heat — and we’re not talking about the weather 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z She spent four days in bed in Paris with Samuel Beckett. When Collecting Wasn’t All About the Money 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z As a plot, that sounds like Beckett squared. 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 These include dance, film, visual arts, music and even sports; Beckett adored rugby, boxing and especially cricket, as did the playwright Harold Pinter. Northern Ireland Town Embraces Beckett Festival 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z She's played detective Kate Beckett on ABC's "Castle" for the past seven seasons, and this season appears to be the procedural's finale. Stana Katic of 'Castle' weds in Croatia 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z Beckett was a staple of their work together, and it was through Cluchey that Mandell developed a relationship with the Irish author, who directed him in "Waiting for Godot" and "Endgame" in Europe. Theater pulses in Alan Mandell's veins 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z The work’s debt to Beckett is forthright, but it translates the bleak comedy of that Irish master into an exuberant American vernacular that even has room for optimism. Review: Jason Craig’s ‘Longyarn’ Features a Mom Who Won’t Shut Up 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z We are left in an abrupt silence that reminded me of Beckett's Breath. Vinyl, UFOs and the patter of tiny feet 2013-05-20T15:59:18Z “Now that it’s ending, I hope Beckett knows he’s more to us than just a man with a cool loft.” The Last Days of Beckett’s, a Smoky New York Literary Salon 2023-04-01T04:00:00Z 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 His plays are notoriously classified as comedies, but their world view is as bleak as Beckett’s. | 'Uncle Vanya': Chekhov?s Slugfest, With Pratfalls 2011-08-07T21:36:44Z Bair was a young journalist with a brand-new Ph.D. when she arrived in Paris in the 1970s and persuaded Beckett to let her write his biography. 13 Books to Watch For in November 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z 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 “Behind all that was the mind of a truly cultivated man, interested in literature, who had a long relationship with Beckett that he treasured.” Frederick Neumann, Actor and Director, Dies at 86 2012-12-06T21:12:13Z 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 Beckett and Stoppard and even poor, average-haired Pinter may one day be more immortal than ever. Review: In ‘Textplay,’ Stoppard and Beckett Get Snarky, FWIW 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z 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 There was the fellow professor who accused her of being “overly aggressive and ambitious” by wanting to write the Beckett book. Beckett, Beauvoir and a Biographer’s Bumpy Takeoff 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z Beckett made everybody's music sound better, without showing the slightest desire to draw attention to himself, and he sustained that balance all his life. Harry Beckett obituary 2010-07-26T17:38:00Z 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 “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 “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 The Beckett International Foundation is a charity owned by the university, which only made the decision to bid for the Murphy manuscript at the very last minute. Samuel Beckett's Murphy draft bought by Reading University for £1m 2013-07-10T17:36:35Z To broaden the appeal, the festival embraces music, lectures and visual arts that inspired Beckett or were inspired by his work. Beckett link brings 'Happy Days' back to Northern Irish town 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z I thought I had seen every tasteless exterior of this chain store, but the one they chose or recreated was bleak beyond any Beckett's Waiting for Godot stage set. ‘Mr. Robot’ Season 2 Finale: Fade to Black 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Beckett uses a strange ballet of banana consumption as a sort of comic curtain raiser, stirring us to engagement with this forbidding character. | 'Krapp?s Last Tape': ?Krapp?s Last Tape,? With John Hurt, at BAM - Review 2011-12-09T03:01:00Z “I almost obsessively want to remain faithful to his text and his initial concept,” Mr. Kurtag said of Beckett’s play. A 92-Year-Old Composer’s First Opera Is His ‘Endgame’ 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z 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 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 Beckett ropes in robbery detective Tom Demming to assist, swiftly leading to a stand-off between Castle and the new man, both desperate to impress with their investigative skills. TV highlights 28/12/2012 2012-12-21T10:08:17Z The playwright called this slender 1959 piece “rather ragged,” but he also said no when Ingmar Bergman wanted to stage the play, which Beckett wrote for only voices and sound effects. Beckett’s ‘Embers,’ at the Brooklyn Academy of Music 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z And though Beckett did say, in response to a proposed in-the-round production, that “Godot” needed “a very closed box,” I doubt this is what he meant. Review: ‘Waiting for Godot’ in the Bleakest Zoom Room Ever 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z Like any good Beckett creation, Noll’s protagonist recognizes that his quest is futile. Three Novels Take Readers Deep Inside the Writer’s Life 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z The payoff was that her Beckett biography won the 1981 National Book Award and that, after Beauvoir, she went on to write books about Anaïs Nin, Carl Jung, Saul Steinberg and Al Capone. Learning the Wiles of a Biographer, With Beckett and Beauvoir 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z The actors, arrayed in a line of chairs like garrulous Beckett semi-invalids, bounce from character to character in ways that make it impossible to keep track of the speaker’s identity. Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' and Shaw's 'Saint Joan': A marathon for four actors, and the audience 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z 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 Yet this version of Shaw’s first play, adapted and directed by David Staller at the Beckett Theater at Theater Row, never convincingly pulls that off. Review: In ‘Widowers’ Houses,’ Loving a Slumlord’s Daughter 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z The ensemble is stagelike and feels a little like a Shakespeare tragedy, or a Beckett farce, primarily because of the startled expression in the main figure’s face. A Singular American Painter and His Perennially Disregarded Wife 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z 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 At No 1 in Germany's fiction bestseller list this week is Sheffield-based crime writer Simon Beckett, with his latest chiller The Calling of the Grave, translated as Verwesung. New Europe: reading up on Germany's bestselling books 2011-03-14T17:54:11Z It promises insights into the art of biography, perhaps a little gossip, perhaps a more intimate look of Beckett and Beauvoir. Beckett, Beauvoir and a Biographer’s Bumpy Takeoff 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z But Mr. Beckett said Burgess Yachts was not actively marketing immediate charters, and several other brokers and tour operators told The Times they thought it was irresponsible to offer charters at this time. The Seas as the Ultimate Coronavirus Isolation? Not. So. Fast. 2020-04-18T04:00:00Z One gap in her compendious CV I note is any Beckett. Judi Dench: 'I never want to stop working' 2012-10-13T23:05:47Z It is easy to forget, somehow, that Beckett wrote much of his most remarkable work in French. Dan Vyleta's top 10 books in second languages 2011-02-16T12:01:20Z Beckett, I think, was very aware of the historical context of what he was writing about, in the 1940s.” ArtsBeat: Wait Ends for a Yiddish Version of ‘Godot’ 2013-08-16T18:23:22Z My friend sympathised and Beckett said: 'No, no – it's wonderful!' John Banville: a life in writing 2012-06-29T21:55:12Z You don’t think that it’s a song anymore because you’re hearing these theatrical little stories, very Beckett stories. Du Yun: A Composer’s 10 Cultural Influences 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z 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 Tuning up ... detail from Samuel Beckett's drafts for Murphy. Samuel Beckett manuscript offers 'intimate' look into his mind 2013-06-04T13:28:16Z Beckett was presented with his award – and a prize cheque for £2013 – at a ceremony on Wednesday evening. Chris Beckett wins Arthur C Clarke award for Dark Eden 2013-05-01T20:01:01Z At 3:08 pm on Wednesday, the Washington bureau of the Wall Street Journal received a cryptic email from their chief, Paul Beckett. Reporter Jay Solomon fired by Wall Street Journal over report of business dealings with source 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z Still, for theatergoers new to Beckett, I can’t imagine a better introduction than this lucid and entertaining cartoon of a show. Review: A ‘Waiting for Godot’ as Comically Futile as a Looney Tune 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z After Beckett came Harold Pinter, with whom Hall set off another revolution in dramatic possibility with “The Homecoming” in 1965. Remembering theater director and Royal Shakespeare founder Peter Hall, who turned language into life 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z The notebooks contain the drafts of Beckett's first major work, Murphy, which he wrote in 1935-6. Why did Samuel Beckett draw doodles? 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z Adams, 65, said she didn't quite know what she was getting into when she accepted the part, having never seen nor read anything by Beckett. Brooke Adams learns the dirty truth of Beckett's 'Happy Days' 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z Unlike the many one-off Beckett celebrations that have intermittently taken place around the world, the Enniskillen Happy Days festival reaches well beyond Beckett’s theater pieces. Critic’s Notebook: Happy Days Beckett Festival Arrives in Northern Ireland 2012-08-27T21:49:32Z Both plays involve disembodied voices, and Beckett understood that the logistical coordination was exceedingly challenging. 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 first venture of the company’s offshoot, New Group Off Stage, is this version of Beckett’s absurdist masterwork — a play set in the ether of the open-ended, existential unknowable. Ethan Hawke and John Leguizamo take on ‘Godot,’ hoping it’s a powerhouse online 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z 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 For Beckett, killing his father meant rejecting the work of his literary predecessors in Ireland. Books of The Times: Colm Toibin’s ‘New Ways to Kill Your Mother’ Looks at Writers 2012-06-11T20:19:38Z 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 Ms. Jarcho, whose influences here include Beckett, maybe “Through the Looking Glass” and, no doubt, the work of Mr. Maxwell, pokes around in situations, but doesn’t quite dramatize them. | 'Dreamless Land' : Julia Jarcho?s ?Dreamless Land? - Review 2011-11-10T22:54:11Z Beckett himself obsessed over a spindly tree created by sculptor Alberto Giacometti for a 1961 staging in Paris. A rock. A road. A tree. How set designers for 20th century’s most famous play change it up. 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z 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 “Godot” may be one of those rare classics that stands up to its characters being physically isolated; Beckett’s notoriously vigilant estate granted Elliott unusual leeway in translating the play to film, the director said. Ethan Hawke and John Leguizamo take on ‘Godot,’ hoping it’s a powerhouse online 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z Howard kindly asked me if I’d like him to tell Beckett anything. I Was a Teenage Samuel Beckett: Or, My Literary Biography Problem 2012-01-11T17:47:41Z 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 And as a man of the theater who directed plays by the likes of Pirandello and Beckett, Camilleri was no stranger to unorthodoxy. Review | Montalbano says farewell in the lovably quirky novel ‘Riccardino’ 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z How much of an influence was Beckett on the book overall? ArtsBeat: Waiting for the King: Dave Eggers Talks About His New Novel 2012-06-20T14:45:33Z 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 Media commentator Charlie Beckett summed it up when he tweeted that it felt like "reading Twitter jokes a day late", and double entendres about Johnsons and Balls do have a somewhat limited appeal. So far, 10 O'Clock Live just talks down to the kids 2011-01-21T15:40:43Z After the show you can’t help wondering how the troupe would handle other projects: a commissioned full-length, maybe, or a program of Beckett shorts. Review: ‘Captive Audience,’ Seven Plays by David Ives by New York Deaf Theater 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z There is no known way of cutting your risk, says Beckett. The painful truth about fibroids: why FKA twigs is not alone 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z It is, like its Beckett source, tender, transparent, unsentimental and unsparing. The Best Classical Music of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z As Samuel Beckett wrote, in a letter to Pinter, it "wrings the heart". Betrayal – review 2012-05-26T23:05:37Z Beckett insisted that his plays be performed as written. A triumphant ‘Endgame’ for Beckett veteran Alan Mandell 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z 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 While Williams only named playwrights he respected, such as Pinter and Beckett, he does not identify those behind the commercial productions that he so detested. Tennessee Williams lambasted his rivals as 'vampires' 2013-02-17T00:06:15Z To appreciate the Beckett sampling here, it is important to recognize the distinction between poetry in the theater and poetry of the theater. 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 There’s something of Beckett, whom she references often, in the way that Diski works over an image, plays with it, repeats it, and rolls it around until all the corners have been knocked off. Jenny Diski’s Way of Seeing Beyond the Story 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z Beckett rewards directors who pay attention to detail, something at which Hill excels. Krapp's Last Tape/Footfalls – review 2012-06-05T17:35:01Z 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’ Before that, they often met and shared what Beckett called "a jar". Peter Lennon obituary 2011-03-20T17:10:17Z The story of Grove soon became one of turning the obscure and the forbidden into the best-selling and the essential, from Burroughs' "Naked Lunch" to Beckett's "Waiting for Godot." First Amendment crusader Barney Rosset dies 2012-02-22T17:03:09Z “His passionate interest in the visual arts and in music cannot be overestimated,” said the Beckett biographer James Knowlson, who gave one of the many sold-out festival talks. Critic’s Notebook: Happy Days Beckett Festival Arrives in Northern Ireland 2012-08-27T21:49:32Z As admirers of Beckett have observed, this intransigence results in a dramatist remarkable for his originality now trapping presentations of his work in the past. 'Now cross the Andes.' In praise of the impossible stage direction 2012-06-12T11:56:16Z I seemed to have driven into a country mired in depression both financial and emotional: Beckett’s world, not Joyce’s. Lost in Ireland 2010-10-22T21:19:00Z Photograph: Robert Workman Great minds drink alike in Imperial Fizz, a cocktail of 1930s movies with a dash of Sartre's Huis Clos and Beckett bitters. Imperial Fizz 2010-08-13T14:46:00Z 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 “I will neither help nor hinder you,” Beckett said when they met. Beckett, Beauvoir and a Biographer’s Bumpy Takeoff 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z “Parisian Lives” “promises insights into the art of biography, perhaps a little gossip, perhaps a more intimate look at Beckett and Beauvoir,” our critic Parul Sehgal writes. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z 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 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 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 The Shameless actor David Threlfall takes on the role of Beckett, who, while living on the outskirts of Paris began taking his builder’s son to school. Urban Myths director defends casting of white actor as Michael Jackson 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z The Beckett allusions are insubstantial, but in truth none of this literary game-playing is illuminating, and mostly feels like a lazy attempt to pad the play with audience-flattering in-jokes. | 'Leaving': A New Play by Vaclav Havel Has Its American Premiere 2010-06-08T22:24:00Z It was so exciting to see myself in Tennessee Williams, in Beckett and Caryl Churchill. ‘It’s More Money Than I Imagined.’ So He’s Giving Some of It Away. 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z He deals in despair and metaphysical stasis, one part Kafka, one part Beckett, plus a dollop of earthy comedy. Why is New York's literary crowd suddenly in thrall to Hungarian fiction? 2012-07-13T21:30:01Z Her ambitions sharpened as her ear tuned to Beckett’s Anglo-Saxon vocabulary, his tortured but exact syntax, the sonic perfection of his prose as it sought the comic depths of human suffering. For Lydia Davis, Language Is Character 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z Here, he returns to “Texts” — dense, elliptical meditations in which raw, swirling consciousness is given argumentative voice — performing excerpts from them and the Beckett novels “The Unnamable” and “Watt.” Review: Wrestling With a Master in ‘On Beckett’ 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z O’Connor had seen only a couple of stagings when the assignment came to him, and he avoided research to keep his imagination as uncluttered as Beckett’s landscape. A rock. A road. A tree. How set designers for 20th century’s most famous play change it up. 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z Hints of Beckett and Ionesco materialize here and there, but mostly because the human brain reflexively tries to extract absurdist meaningfulness in any quantity it can. Review | Nathan Lane and Adam Driver are both starring on Broadway. Only one of them gives us a good time. 2019-04-21T04:00:00Z 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 Beckett, who works in tech, doesn’t seem interested in the scenery; his eyes and attention are fixed on April. ‘Beckett’ Review: He Must Go On 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z 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 Yet another of those improbable female guardian angels that moviemakers adore, Lena is soon swept up in Beckett’s adventure, helping him piece together the ragged narrative pieces. ‘Beckett’ Review: He Must Go On 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z 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 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 I tried to comfort myself by thinking of Beckett's line from Malone Dies – "There is no use indicting words, they are no shoddier than what they peddle" – but, nota bene, the narrator is called Samuel. The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus – review 2013-04-30T11:41:04Z Playwright Samuel Beckett was famously influenced by music-hall comedy, for instance. British music hall show onstage in Kensington Angst, awful and hilarious, is as essential a feature of Mr. Ayckbourn’s sunny suburbs and cozy townhouses as it is of Beckett’s wintry heaths and dustbins. ‘Ayckbourn Ensemble,’ 3 Offerings by the British Playwright 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z Beckett’s difficulties would come later in life, when she failed to live up to her academic potential, experienced two failed marriages and had mental health problems. ‘I assumed it was all my fault’: the adults dealing with undiagnosed ADHD 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z Not meeting Beckett is his greatest regret, he says. Sam Shepard bares his soul 2010-03-21T00:05:00Z 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 The second line of the “Neither” libretto — “from impenetrable self to impenetrable unself by way of neither” — conveys the mix of what seems to be acute observation and complete uncertainty in Beckett’s phrases. Music Review: Who Killed This Woman?s Lover? And Other Elusive Operatic Issues 2011-03-27T22:01:56Z Joy Wilkinson's Acting Leader presents a baleful Margaret Beckett, almost forgotten as a contender for the Labour party leadership, though reputed to be one of the hardest interviewees to crack. Women, Power and Politics; Through a Glass Darkly 2010-06-19T23:15:00Z 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 By 1990, Mabou Mines had produced eight of Beckett’s works — including six not originally written for the theater that the company gave their world premieres. Frederick Neumann, Actor and Director, Dies at 86 2012-12-06T21:12:13Z Reputed to have been a fine musician himself, Beckett directed his plays as though he were conducting an orchestra. L.A. Phil's revelatory pairing of Beckett and Schubert, 'Night and Dreams' 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z "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 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 He admires Beckett and Chekhov and Cather, thinks Camus had a “dreary mind” and that, next to Woolf, Joyce “seems tricky and vulgar and cheap.” Books of The Times: Isherwood?s Singular Second Wind 2010-12-01T16:58:00Z 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 When journalism tries to appeal to people’s “noble instincts,” as Beckett puts it, rather than generating something people want, it takes its place alongside every other charity. John Oliver’s newspaper rant hits a nerve: “We’ve watched it being not-so-slowly destroyed by forces beyond our control” 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z His plays come closer than most to an under-advertised aspect of Cooke's Court project: an interest in breaking free of social realism and exploring the experimental tradition of Ionesco and Beckett. Narrative; Cannibals; Once – review 2013-04-13T23:06:25Z Beckett praises Stoppard’s as “Messy and brilliant, like your mind.” Review: In ‘Textplay,’ Stoppard and Beckett Get Snarky, FWIW 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z Beckett was born in South Africa and raised in Scotland. Art historian Sister Wendy Beckett has died. She was 88 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z 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 “Not I” epitomizes Beckett’s preference for paring away theater’s dispensable aspects. Review | One actress commands the stage in Scena Theatre’s ‘The Beckett Trio’ 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z 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 It would be a crime against absurdist-theatrical nature to make the abstractions of Beckett’s masterpiece concrete. ArtsBeat: New York Fringe Festival Report: ‘Waiting for Waiting for Godot’ 2013-08-23T19:25:35Z I tell him he reminds me of Samuel Beckett. Scott Walker: Brother beyond 2012-11-23T19:28:49Z 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 “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 Beckett likes medium-dry rosés, such as white zinfandel, with spicy dishes. Rosé loves the heat — and we’re not talking about the weather 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Baryshnikov asked Mr. Neumann to create the piece after the two hit it off while performing in “Beckett Shorts,” which opened at New York Theater Workshop in 2007. Dance: David Neumann?s All-American Meal 2010-02-26T15:44:00Z During his tenure the theater won plaudits for drawing culturally diverse audiences to productions of everything from Shakespeare to Beckett, and for featuring black actors. City College to Support New Theater Uptown 2011-05-29T22:14:08Z 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 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 Beckett encourages Larry to scam the scammer, leading the film into giddy caper territory. Review: ‘Phantom Halo,’ a Crime Caper With Thomas Brodie-Sangster 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z And of course Mr. Brook and Beckett are a seamless match in their reverence for theatrical economy, using minimal means to maximum effect. | 'Fragments': ?Fragments? at Baryshnikov Arts Center - Review 2011-11-15T22:05:03Z There’s a quintessentially Beckettian story about Beckett leaving a bar by a revolving door, but then being too drunk to successfully operate said revolving door. I Was a Teenage Samuel Beckett: Or, My Literary Biography Problem 2012-01-11T17:47:41Z “Oh, God, do I love Beckett,” he says with a grin. As Center Theatre Group turns 50, an artistic director plots the second act (Hint: Think Hollywood) 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z At the time, he had left his native Sweden for Leeds – “of all places” – and was studying English at what’s now called Leeds Beckett University. Alexander Skarsgård: ‘Hollywood is very silly. People are so anxious’ | Tim Lewis 2018-02-11T05:00:00Z 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 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 For instance, Mandell, who worked with Beckett for years, has a stage presence and an oracular vocal presence that encapsulates all the enigma in Beckett. L.A. Phil's revelatory pairing of Beckett and Schubert, 'Night and Dreams' 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z Humenny said that after having Beckett, it was around 10:00 p.m. when nurses pointed out that Freya’s birthday may fall in a different year. Twin brother and sister celebrate their 10th birthdays in 2 different years: 'It’s a very strange concept' 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z 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 These questions are fundamental not just to the Greeks but to Shakespeare, Chekhov, Beckett and everyone writing in their wake. The inventive 'Love and Information' reminds us that you can't Google wisdom 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z Beckett's other roles for women confine them to urns, a trash can, a rocking chair and a platform suspended above the stage, where the audience can see nothing but the actress' disembodied mouth. Brooke Adams learns the dirty truth of Beckett's 'Happy Days' 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z The ideas about perception that Beckett explores in “Film” are both grandly philosophical and deeply personal. When Samuel Beckett Tried to Capture the Power of the Movies 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z Mr. Escalante’s debt to Stein, Joyce, Beckett and others is fine; his own delivery is particularly good. Dance Review | Alex Escalante: Babble on? Babylon? Next Question, Please 2010-02-19T23:46:00Z In any event, they do uphold those Beckett standards of yore, these two physically agile comic actors, engaged in existential standup. Review | If you’re waiting for a new take on ‘Waiting for Godot,’ you’ll wait some more. 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z Her career has been steadily productive, but Beckett and Beauvoir retain a special significance for her; in tracing their lives, she began to live her own — and received a bitter education in the world. Beckett, Beauvoir and a Biographer’s Bumpy Takeoff 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z This year's program includes a lecture on the food of Europe's Jews, whose plight helped inspire "Waiting for Godot", and lectures on World War Two, when Beckett was in the French Resistance. Beckett link brings 'Happy Days' back to Northern Irish town 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z 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 There’s a lot of running and jumping and stark lighting and odd videography, though the actual Beckett text is almost always a lull in the action. Review: ‘Hand Foot Fizzle Face’ Explores Futility and Disconnection 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z As with all Beckett's work, there are strict stage directions that must be adhered to. Beckett's Not I: how I became the ultimate motormouth 2013-05-08T18:30:01Z Schubert, Beckett, Coltrane and new works will be featured this fall at Lincoln Center’s sixth White Light Festival, which will run from Oct. Celebrating Schubert and Coltrane's 'A Love Supreme' at the White Light Festival 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z He was 69 and lived in Manhattan and Bucks County, Pa. The cause was complications of gastrointestinal surgery, his wife, Kathleen Beckett, said. Steven Kroll, an Author of Children?s Books, Dies at 69 2011-03-15T05:19:44Z For she — not Beckett — devised this system of restraint and sensory deprivation as a means of summoning the character's existential panic. Irish actress Lisa Dwan to perform Beckett's dark, tortured 'Not I' for last time at the Broad Stage 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z In March, the building was put up for auction, and Beckett’s shut down indefinitely. The Last Days of Beckett’s, a Smoky New York Literary Salon 2023-04-01T04:00:00Z 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 The book allows us backstage, into the creation and revision of her stories, her notes on her influences: Beckett, Babel, Paley, Kafka. Lydia Davis Loved Learning the Word ‘Look.’ These Essays Show Why. 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z 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 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 After Beckett died, she stopped performing his work, though she often lectured about the plays of his in which she had appeared. Billie Whitelaw, Longtime Beckett Muse, Dies at 82 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z She met David Beckett after he appeared as an odd-job man who saved Deirdre's daughter Tracy from a chip pan fire in 1991. Anne Kirkbride: A life of drama 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z This was preceded by a Samuel Beckett play. Mark Morris Dance Group Debuts ‘Water’ in Its Element 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z 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 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 "Beckett would tell you the same: he was a very big pessimist, but he found it absurdly funny – like Kafka did." Scott Walker: Brother beyond 2012-11-23T19:28:49Z The bestseller lists are dominated by globally successful fantasy authors such as Stephenie Meyer, or by crime fiction writers such as Britain's Simon Beckett and the American author Elizabeth George. What they're reading in Germany 2011-03-18T12:29:32Z The plot of “Happy Days in the Art World” — which relies more on “Godot” than on Beckett’s “Happy Days” — does not go much of anywhere. ?Happy Days in the Art World? at Performa 11 2011-10-31T22:10:32Z 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 Sullivan in the Beckett Theater at Theater Row in Manhattan, it’s a mishmash of acting styles in a tonally uneven production that rarely wipes the dust of decades from the text. Review: A Sprawling ‘Days to Come’ Has Everything Except Central Figures 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z A real mixed bag of new shows announced this week – ranging from a rare Beckett revival to a new Tina Turner musical. Seven days on stage: Edinburgh festival fringe gets the Hoff 2012-06-01T14:39:26Z 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 Beckett says kids should remember that every effort to help the environment matters. 2 kid activists raise awareness and money to help save the rainforest 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z Direct and disturbing – it is impossible to grow tired of Beckett. Nick Clegg: My hero Samuel Beckett 2010-04-30T21:00:00Z There are existential echoes of Beckett and Albee in this contemplative work that’s part TED talk, part show and tell. 5 Shows to See in New York When You Only Have an Hour 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z "It's not that Beckett wanted the actor to suffer," Dwan says. Irish actress Lisa Dwan to perform Beckett's dark, tortured 'Not I' for last time at the Broad Stage 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z His work is difficult to watch in the way that the plays of Beckett, Ionesco and Pinter are — and rewarding in the same way. Review: Compagnie CNDC-Angers Dances Cunningham 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z 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 If Kafka and Beckett are better than Thomas Mann, why is “The Magic Mountain” on this list while “The Trial” and “The Unnamable” are not? Review | ‘The Bright Book of Life’ examines ‘novels to read and reread’ 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z The Actors Company Theater, in its pleasant production of “Three Men on a Horse” at the Beckett Theater, has one, and his name is James Murtaugh. | 'Three Men on a Horse': Another Outing for This Gambling Tale? What Are the Odds? 2011-04-03T21:14:06Z But he’s also an heir of Beckett, an opaque symbolist who spurns psychology in favor of total metaphors that rip the veil off reality to expose the core of existential pain. Ingmar Bergman and the Risk of Ridicule 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z During a production of Happy Days at the NT in 1976 Beckett cut a page of his own text when a malfunctioning parasol refused to burst into flames. Death of a Salesman v the death of directing 2012-10-29T17:43:33Z "As the leading centre for Beckett studies worldwide, it was a great opportunity for us to bring back one of the most important literary works, hidden for ages, back to the public." Why did Samuel Beckett draw doodles? 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z 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 Etchings and aquatints — some playful, some troubling — accompany five gnomic prose works, or “Fizzles,” that Beckett translated from the French. Review: ‘Hand Foot Fizzle Face’ Explores Futility and Disconnection 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z Beckett said that “Watt” was “a game,” but it was more than a mere diversion for him. The Alternative Facts of Samuel Beckett’s “Watt” 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z 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 Beckett described her as “a woman of about 50.” Battered but Unbowed: How Beckett Speaks to a New Era 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z The scene was not quite “a country road, a tree, evening,” Beckett’s evocation of existential nowhere in “Waiting for Godot.” ?Happy Days in the Art World? at Performa 11 2011-10-31T22:10:32Z Beckett’s words — those priceless words — count for rather less in this production than they usually do and should. Review: ‘Krapp’s Last Tape,’ a Melancholy Tone Poem 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z The two will sink their teeth into Beckett and Pinter after spending the summer filming "X-Men: Days of Future Past." Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart heading to Broadway 2013-01-24T20:08:34Z And many academics sniffed at her life of Beckett. Learning the Wiles of a Biographer, With Beckett and Beauvoir 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z I said, ‘Oh, Mr. Beckett, it’s just nonsense.’ Critic’s Notebook: Happy Days Beckett Festival Arrives in Northern Ireland 2012-08-27T21:49:32Z 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 “It’s unusual for them to be painful,” says Dr Virginia Beckett, a consultant gynaecologist and spokesperson for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. The painful truth about fibroids: why FKA twigs is not alone 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z While these two short plays dating from 1890 now seem like historical curiosities, you can detect their influence on the work of Beckett. The Blind/The Intruder – review 2013-04-08T16:41:31Z Survivors include a daughter, Jeri Brown; a son, Joshua Beckett, and two granddaughters. Gogi Grant, Who Knocked Elvis Off Top of Chart, Dies at 91 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z Beckett didn’t want the play to be staged, but a London production this year with Michael Gambon and Eileen Atkins presented it as a kind of staged rehearsal with the actors holding scripts. Theater Review: ‘All That Fall,’ Pan Pan’s Take on Beckett, at BAM 2012-12-20T22:39:31Z Coetzee is usually cast as a cold, austere and cerebral writer; a South African Beckett, gloomily preoccupied with the operations of power and desire. The Childhood of Jesus by JM Coetzee – review 2013-02-27T10:00:01Z 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 The spareness of each frame rivals that of the stage set for Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot”: only a bench and a paper-bag lunch. How “Peanuts” Created a Space for Thinking 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z It was a later friendship that led to Reading University becoming the world centre of Beckett studies. Samuel Beckett's Murphy draft bought by Reading University for £1m 2013-07-10T17:36:35Z And Beckett leaves it to us to fill in the blanks about what is torturing her. Theater Review: ‘Sounding Beckett,’ at the Classic Stage Company 2012-09-19T21:30:20Z 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 From that first breath, “Ping,” a setting of a prose text by Beckett, progressed with the ominousness of a cast spell. Review: A Trio of Micro-Operas in the East Village 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z That swerve is a twist as typical of Beckett as it is of Morris. Mark Morris Dance Group Debuts ‘Water’ in Its Element 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z It was intensely personal to Beckett, who drew on his upbringing in Dublin for many of the characters, and compresses many of his great themes – death, sex, loss of faith. All That Fall: the Samuel Beckett stage play that isn't 2012-11-07T19:00:01Z 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 At the end, Bob would get up and say, with comic bravado, as though we were characters in a Beckett play, “And so we push on.” Lunch with Bob Silvers 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z It was baseball by Beckett, “They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?” with minor-league ballplayers instead of marathon dancers. Books of The Times: Baseball According to Beckett: A Game That Wouldn?t End 2011-04-24T21:07:26Z It's like Beckett or Max Frisch, these people stayed with one publishing house from the beginning to the end. Manfred Eicher: the sound man 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z For Beckett, this notion isn’t so much a theme but a springboard. A triumphant ‘Endgame’ for Beckett veteran Alan Mandell 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z How they go on, like a couple of Beckett vagrants. Video artist Gerard Byrne: the great pretender 2013-01-17T06:30:01Z 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 Where are the novels of Kafka and Beckett, both of whom he venerates and constantly refers to? Harold Bloom Is Dead. But His ‘Rage for Reading’ Is Undiminished. 2021-01-23T05:00:00Z "I find myself resisting the underlying pessimism of a play that makes Beckett look like Little Mary Sunshine," he says, in an outrageous Austrian accent. Can't bear it 2010-04-08T11:37:00Z Existential echoes of Beckett and Sartre are in the air, and political metaphors likely, too. ArtsBeat: New York Fringe Festival Report: ‘The Spider’ 2013-08-18T20:00:50Z His adaptation of Beckett’s “Endgame” feels like a posthumous collaboration of equals. Notable Performances and Recordings of 2018 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z Later, I had enough to do in teaching European theatre at Warwick University, getting students to understand Ibsen, Chekhov, Strindberg, Wedekind, Pirandello, Brecht, Beckett and Artaud, without making time for Shaw. George Bernard Shaw and feminism 2011-01-23T22:30:01Z Beckett and the beast Johnny Byron is a questionable character, who deals drugs and possibly sex to teenagers, but both play and portrayal left moral judgment to the audience. Mark Rylance: 'It's all about the attitude' 2010-06-15T20:30:00Z I was doing a theater piece for the Mabou Mines, it was some Beckett piece, and I wrote him a cello piece, and he liked the work and was playing it. Philip Glass and Beck Discuss Collaborating on ‘Rework’ 2012-10-07T07:23:02Z Yet, for all of its shortcomings—failures that Beckett himself eventually acknowledged—Lipman finds in “Film” genuine insights about Beckett’s work as a whole, and even about the nature of the movies. When Samuel Beckett Tried to Capture the Power of the Movies 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z 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 If they are right, what kind of pass have we come to, in which even Beckett’s vision is not bleak enough? Review: ‘Waiting for Godot’ in the Bleakest Zoom Room Ever 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z A documentary crew follows Castle, Beckett and the team as they investigate the murder of a rock band's lead guitarist. Monday TV Picks: 'Bones' on Fox 2012-11-10T00:42:07Z 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 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 You talk about when I was studying, my first acting teacher, Michael Beckett, great guy, he's still there, down at HB. Vincent Pastore has made a career of playing wise guys, but is he tired of it? Fuhgeddaboudit! 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z 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 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 The title, with its nod to Beckett, can be interpreted in several ways. Avant-Garde Theater, or a Musical: Who Says You Need to Choose? 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z In the end it counts for something that the piece, at the Beckett Theater, is good-hearted; it’s a syrupy story that sets the bar low and then is happy to clear it. Theater Review: ‘Scrambled Eggs,’ at the Beckett Theater 2013-04-30T20:04:09Z If he were to see the Roundabout version of "The Cherry Orchard," Chekhov, one of Beckett's precursors, would have said the same thing. Review: All’s Not Well in This ‘Cherry Orchard’ 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z This, of course, could be said of Beckett’s whole career, which in some ways is encapsulated by this early work. Samuel Beckett's 'Echo's Bones' finally published after 80 years 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z The play is scheduled to run from Feb. 9 to Apr. 14 at the Beckett Theater at Theater Row. The Actors Company Theater Set to Close This Year 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z 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 One can sense, as he goes through the unspooling iterations and variations of Watt’s compulsive logic that he, Beckett, needed those same exhaustive iterations to keep a grip on himself. The Alternative Facts of Samuel Beckett’s “Watt” 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z 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 This season the company is probing the canons of Shakespeare, Miller and Beckett, among others. Other summer Shakespeare and theater festivals 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z 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 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 He had three children, of them named Beckett. First Amendment crusader Barney Rosset dies 2012-02-22T17:03:09Z 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 Her first performance in a Beckett work was Play, which had its London debut in 1964. Obituary: Billie Whitelaw 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z It’s more static than a Beckett play, less menacing than Pinter and not as probing as latter-day Ibsen. Jealousy and dread in ultra slo-mo in ‘Someone Is Going to Come’ 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z 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 It's a fine description, and could this be the first time that Beckett's play has been produced as picnic theatre? What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2013-06-07T16:06:29Z But “The Performance” is an insightful response to Beckett’s 60-year-old classic and a thoughtful reflection on what’s burying women in the modern age. 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 But no one could accuse the film-makers of trying to emulate Beckett's linguistic or philosophical depth. Sundance film festival 2013: Prince Avalanche – first look review 2013-01-24T16:55:49Z But when he was alone, he read Solzhenitsyn and Beckett. Up Close: A Founder of Vice Magazine Branches Out 2010-08-16T21:02:00Z I was, admittedly, a bit puzzled by Lucy Osborne's design, which, with its sand-filled surface and a winding staircase apparently made of chairs, suggested we were in for a mix of Beckett and Ionesco. Berenice – review 2012-10-02T23:48:56Z Beckett and Castle discover giant footprints at the site of a vicious murder, leading the team to wonder if Bigfoot is the killer. Monday TV Picks: The new ‘Defiance’ on Syfy 2013-04-12T19:32:18Z 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 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 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 Set amid all this are cosmic stage directions of the sort we later became familiar with in Beckett. ‘Echo’s Bones,’ a Beckett Short Story Rediscovered 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z 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 Habit, Beckett said, is a great deadener, and the mind is the first to go. How theater should respond to a democracy in meltdown 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z 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 The references to Flaubert, Dante and the Beckett homage aroused Henry's curiosity; these were the kind of literary allusions critics took seriously. Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel 2010-06-07T20:59:00Z 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 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 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 You stood up Samuel Beckett, I ask, outraged. Dustin Hoffman: facing down my demons 2012-12-14T23:00:18Z Beckett noted that while Joyce proceeded by constantly adding to the edifice, he himself worked by constantly subtracting, stone by stone. Dublinesque by Enrique Vila-Matas - review 2012-06-15T21:55:05Z It's become a cliché but, as Beckett wrote, 'Fail again. John Banville: a life in writing 2012-06-29T21:55:12Z Inspired by Beckett and the Bible, and directed by Danya Taymor, an earlier version was filmed by Spike Lee onstage in Chicago. Broadway Is Back! A Guide to Shows, Tickets and Covid Protocols. 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z There are strains of Beckett and Pinter in the way Schweblin’s people use so many words to say so little. In Stories From an Argentine Surrealist, Circles of Madness and Violence 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z 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 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 Beckett in the pub, community college, cinema, castle and hairdresser. In Northern Ireland, a Celebration of Samuel Beckett 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z It’s like Beckett but even darker, which is hard to do.” ArtsBeat: 'Bengal Tiger,' With Robin Williams, Coming to Broadway in March 2010-10-21T21:27:00Z Beckett's novel, set in London, tells the story of the title character Murphy and his desire to withdraw from life. Why did Samuel Beckett draw doodles? 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z Her husband David Beckett and the programme's cast and crew were said to be "heartbroken and deeply saddened". Coronation Street's Kirkbride dies 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z Mr. Neumann, who appeared in most of the Beckett pieces, directed three of the adaptations. Frederick Neumann, Actor and Director, Dies at 86 2012-12-06T21:12:13Z 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 There is Beckett here, not least in the ending: "you forget and you keep going on". My Fair Lady; The Dance of Death; Midnight's Pumpkin – review 2012-12-23T00:09:26Z Fiona Beckett, a British wine writer, has a website devoted to the subject, called Matching Food & Wine. Rosé loves the heat — and we’re not talking about the weather 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z In an online promotional photo entitled ‘Saturday with Jenna,’ J. Crew President and Executive Creative Director Jenna Lyons poses playfully with her five-year-old son Beckett. Motherlode: In Praise of Pink Polish 2011-04-14T17:03:05Z 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 Coeztee’s allegorical portraits of apartheid in “Waiting for the Barbarians” and “The Life and Times of Michael K” elegantly fit in the modernist furrow plowed by Kafka, Camus, and Beckett. A Traitor to His Tribe 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z Gregg’s interest in contradiction and her remarkable gift for lyric tension emerge as early as “The Beckett Kit” and “Goethe’s Death Mask,” which both slyly interrogate the relationship of artistic composition to violence and suffering. Linda Gregg in The New Yorker 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z Something happens and Beckett is soon alone and on the move, crossing a land that resembles an obstacle course. ‘Beckett’ Review: He Must Go On 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z “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 That hopeless hope — one of many of Mr. Eno’s deft little linguistic homages to Beckett that pepper the monologue — strikes the keynote of “Title and Deed.” Theater Review: ?Title and Deed,? by Will Eno, With Conor Lovett 2012-05-21T02:00:00Z 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 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 “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 He even rebukes Beckett for, of all things, sanitizing old age. Alan Bennett’s Latest Nonfiction 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z 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 Weak readers of Beckett harp on the theme of Godless despair. A triumphant ‘Endgame’ for Beckett veteran Alan Mandell 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z Each Beckett short is a mordant miniature of a woman’s life, mostly unlived. Review: Beckett’s Absurdist House of Horrors, in Hell’s Kitchen 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z “There’s something uniquely awful about bad theater, isn’t there?” a guy named Robert asks his fiancée in “Hating Beckett,” and you have to admit it’s a disarming way to begin a play. Review: ‘The Unrepeatable Moment,’ Six Plays by John Yearley 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z She’s proved her mettle with the words of Shakespeare, Albee, Pinter, Beckett. A longtime D.C. actress tackles her first musical, and it’s by Sondheim 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z 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 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 A cross between Beckett and William Gibson, it follows its globetrotting heroine through a series of anonymous hotel rooms around the world, a rocking chair strapped to her back. Athina Rachel Tsangari Directs ?Attenberg? 2012-03-02T19:13:03Z But Beckett’s stylistic extravagance has a purpose: it illustrates the desperate lengths people can be pushed to by powers that behave arbitrarily, indifferent to human suffering. The Alternative Facts of Samuel Beckett’s “Watt” 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z 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 His run of modern plays – ranging from new scripts through Beckett's Endgame – was, he admits, a deliberate shift. Mark Rylance: 'It's all about the attitude' 2010-06-15T20:30:00Z So on the stage of the Irish Repertory Theater, where Mr. Irwin’s captivating “On Beckett” opened on Wednesday night, you will find a terminally possessed creature speaking in contradictory utterances as seemingly involuntary as hiccups. Review: Wrestling With a Master in ‘On Beckett’ 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z Luckily, Beckett does not fall into this category. Teach Us to Sit Still by Tim Parks ? review 2011-07-14T09:00:01Z The play reminds of both Beckett and Caryl Churchill, but without the former's emotional power and the latter's playfulness. Kaspar - review 2011-01-21T18:12:19Z 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 Beckett’s life-long interest in music is clear in his writings, with the text often working more as a kind of soundtrack, full of changes of pitch, tempo and counterpoint, than as a narrative communication. In Northern Ireland, a Celebration of Samuel Beckett 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z "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 ITV revealed on Monday evening with "great sadness" that Kirkbride's husband David Beckett had confirmed the actress died peacefully in a Manchester hospital. Tributes to Corrie's Anne Kirkbride 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z The grossest comic line in “Endgame” — a joke that feels like a nod to Beckett’s luxuriantly crude friend James Joyce — belongs to Hamm. ‘Endgame’ Review: A Laugh at the Apocalypse? 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z 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 “But the truth is there are more ideas for Beckett programming than we can manage.” In Northern Ireland, a Celebration of Samuel Beckett 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z Antoinette Nwandu’s solution in this searing drama is to weld the story of two black youths in a city like Chicago to spiritual antecedents including enslaved African-Americans, biblical Israelites and Beckett’s hobos Vladimir and Estragon. The Best Theater of 2018 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z 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 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 Ms. Whitelaw provided the ghostly voice speaking as if from the subconscious of a lone man in a barren bedroom in Beckett’s “Eh Joe.” Billie Whitelaw, Longtime Beckett Muse, Dies at 82 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z 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 Beckett and Dechevaux-Dumesnil rented quarters in a house on the edge of town and proceeded to wait out the war. The Alternative Facts of Samuel Beckett’s “Watt” 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z He was the exploitative doctor in Büchner’s “Woyzeck” in a parking lot, and the servant Clov in Beckett’s “Endgame” and the gambler Rusty Charlie in “Guys & Dolls,” both performed in warehouses. Theater: Jim Parsons Prepares for His Lead Role in ‘Harvey’ 2012-05-23T15:00:21Z As the hapless hero who goes to work in a remote country house owned by Mr Knott, McGovern reminded us that Beckett was, among many other things, one of the great Irish humorists. Dublin theatre festival takes the recession seriously 2010-10-11T15:44:00Z 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 But while Beckett might have achieved redemption as a human being, redemption as a gangster still relies on his two sons. Have you been watching … The Fear? 2012-12-06T15:04:20Z There are echoes of Beckett in this novel’s abstemious style and existential echoes. In His Final Fiction, Sam Shepard Chases Familiar Themes 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z It is to begin previews at the Beckett Theater in Midtown Manhattan on Monday and open on Nov. 4. ArtsBeat: Actor Withdraws From Havel Play After Car Accident 2010-10-20T14:51:00Z But Mr. Doran has also created a much broader, multidisciplinary celebration of Beckett’s work and life that includes musical events, talks, readings, visual art and even sport. In Northern Ireland, a Celebration of Samuel Beckett 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z He reliably transcribes some aspect of what he thinks, but the form doesn't spark new thoughts in him as it does in other writers – not necessarily companionable ones – such as Beckett, Larkin or Joyce. The Letters of TS Eliot: Volume 4, 1928-1929 – review 2013-01-10T11:00:01Z Beckett’s words might have served as an alternate title for this unbuttoned pair of novels: “Let me say before I go any further that I forgive nobody.” Larry Kramer Leaves No Score Unsettled in an Epic’s Finale 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z But in Beckett’s instructions, as in the original German production, the crossing performers avoid a small square area in the middle, an absurdist hole. Mark Morris Dance Group Debuts ‘Water’ in Its Element 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z Where Beckett offers music-hall-derived rhythms and a metaphorically resonant tree, “Pass Over” supplies vernacular banter and a lamppost. Review | Studio’s blazing ‘Pass Over’ reimagines ‘Godot’ for the Black Lives Matter era 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z “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 When I can simply let the words play their music out on my whole being, only then can I begin to approach the result I'm aiming for: pure Beckett. Beckett's Not I: how I became the ultimate motormouth 2013-05-08T18:30:01Z 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 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 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 a young artist, he borrowed too heavily from Ionesco—an early and permanent influence, along with Beckett—who thought characters existed for the sole purpose of making theatre. Postscript: Edward Albee, 1928-2016 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z Waiting for inspiration ... which politician looks up to Samuel Beckett? Michael Billington's 2010 theatre quiz 2011-01-04T11:43:10Z Ms. Dwan, you see, is an instrument of Beckett, in that way saints and martyrs are said to be instruments of God. Three Beckett Plays About Time at BAM 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z 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 After all, Beckett called “Godot” a tragicomedy, presumably with emphasis on the second part of the word because the first part speaks for itself. Review: ‘Waiting for Godot’ in the Bleakest Zoom Room Ever 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z Other presiding spirits are those of Kafka and Beckett. Teju Cole's top 10 novels of solitude 2011-08-24T11:45:07Z 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 William Burroughs admired the unswerving bleakness of Beckett's gaze, the way he reduced compensatory illusions to zero. The Undiscovered Country: Journeys Among the Dead by Carl Watkins – review 2013-01-12T09:31:00Z “I think what’s happened here with Beckett was guided by Mary’s bohemian spirit,” he said. The Last Days of Beckett’s, a Smoky New York Literary Salon 2023-04-01T04:00:00Z But their sculptural qualities, the way silence and gesture are as intrinsic to Beckett’s dramaturgy as language, must be scrupulously honored. 'Beckett 5' at the Odyssey: five plays, two hours, one sinister ending 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z 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 The pages are filled with hard-to-decipher handwriting, but what's striking to the casual observer is how much Beckett draws as well as writes. Why did Samuel Beckett draw doodles? 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z All three women happily join hands, creating an image that movingly suggests that solitude is not the last word in human life, even in the world of Beckett. | 'Fragments': ?Fragments? at Baryshnikov Arts Center - Review 2011-11-15T22:05:03Z Treasures of Heaven includes the cult of Beckett – but it does not examine the treasury of profane humour that is The Canterbury Tales. Why did Chaucer not make it into Treasures of Heaven? 2011-08-05T13:31:37Z For that matter, could Eland be Beckett, so existential he seems to exist even now, an avant-gardist more than 32 years after his death? Review: In ‘Textplay,’ Stoppard and Beckett Get Snarky, FWIW 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z Adams says she'd like to continue performing "Happy Days" elsewhere — "New York would be lovely" — but she has no wish to take on other roles in Beckett plays. Brooke Adams learns the dirty truth of Beckett's 'Happy Days' 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z Beckett was so taken with her that over the next quarter century the two became collaborators. Billie Whitelaw, Longtime Beckett Muse, Dies at 82 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z What is it you like about the Beckett quote on failure? Daniel Radcliffe: 'I'm not a one-trick pony' 2013-06-02T18:00:01Z 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 “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 ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland — Beckett in the theater, Beckett in the church. In Northern Ireland, a Celebration of Samuel Beckett 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z 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 Perfectly wrought in gnomic scenes, it treats Beckett with spare, sometimes stark delicacy. The Philharmonic’s New Season: What We Want to Hear 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z In fact, he's a successful writer of detective mysteries, who bases his books on periods spent "embedded" with the NYPD, particularly the waspish Detective Beckett. Tonight's TV highlights: Food 2010-09-21T23:05:00Z 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 A friend of mine visited Beckett in his old folks' home in Paris and he said he was getting so old he was forgetting so many things. John Banville: a life in writing 2012-06-29T21:55:12Z 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 Cinema was, for Beckett, something like the fullest form of perception, with all the invasiveness and pain that that entailed. When Samuel Beckett Tried to Capture the Power of the Movies 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z When Tom and Louise construct narratives of their problems and mess around in the meaning of them, there’s a light touch of Beckett in their double-act repartee. The Agreeable Staginess of “State of the Union” 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z A sprightly revival opened Thursday night off-Broadway, presented by TACT/The Actors Company Theatre at the Beckett Theatre. Review: 'Happy Birthday' a booze-filled romp 2013-03-21T23:59:08Z Beckett on stage at the Jazz à Vienne festival, in France, in July 2000; his sound was described as ‘a kind of chastened happiness’. Harry Beckett obituary 2010-07-26T17:38:00Z The actress began her working relationship with Beckett in 1963 and appeared in several of Beckett’s plays, including Play, Not I, and Footfalls, which Beckett wrote specifically for the actress. Stage and Film Actress Billie Whitelaw Dead at 82 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z The pain at the center of this study of human purposelessness can be hard to take for someone unprepared for the bright glare of Beckett’s unbounded bleakness. Review: A ‘Waiting for Godot’ as Comically Futile as a Looney Tune 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z “The Emperor’s Nightingale,” at the Beckett Theater, combines Andersen’s “The Nightingale” with 18th-century Chinese politics. Two Timely Takes on Hans Christian Andersen’s Tales 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z Yet neither Stoppard nor Beckett, as scripted here, seems sure of his stature, pre- or post-mortem. Review: In ‘Textplay,’ Stoppard and Beckett Get Snarky, FWIW 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z At a subsequent meeting, Mr. Wilson recounted, Beckett suggested that he do one of the plays. Critic’s Notebook: Happy Days Beckett Festival Arrives in Northern Ireland 2012-08-27T21:49:32Z After Mr. Rosset thanked the crowd on that November night, the gathering turned into a drunken send-off to Beckett’s. The Last Days of Beckett’s, a Smoky New York Literary Salon 2023-04-01T04:00:00Z 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 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 But its excesses lend themselves to a comic shellacking, and at the Beckett Theater, the mischief makers in the Puppet Shakespeare Players have a semi-improvised field day. ‘Puppet Titus Andronicus,’ at the Beckett Theater 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z This is fiction in touch with the starker parables, with Kafka and Beckett, with the austerity of bare rooms and declarative, uninflected sentences. Joshua Ferris Reviews Don DeLillo’s ‘Zero K’ 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z There, our first stop is at a bookstore-jazz lounge called Bird & Beckett. A 17-Mile Hike to Unite San Francisco 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z The mystery that Beckett ultimately unravels is as predictable as it is dull. 'Innocence' is as predictable as it is dull 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z I wrote my Princeton senior thesis ... on Beckett's novels. With 'Holy Cow,' David Duchovny is finally, officially a novelist 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z In my complete adolescent self-absorption Beckett was less a human being than a character in a thinly-veiled roman a clef about me. I Was a Teenage Samuel Beckett: Or, My Literary Biography Problem 2012-01-11T17:47:41Z 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 Beckett’s precisely choreographed stage directions and his interest in mime — an important element of several of his major plays — nonetheless suggest a connection to movement that the festival could develop. In Northern Ireland, a Celebration of Samuel Beckett 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z “Night Boat to Tangier,” like Beckett’s “Godot,” is about the wait. Two Lifetime Crooks Wait for a Missing Daughter, With Shades of Beckett 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z Think of Lewis Carroll’s forensic interest in nonsense, Gertrude Stein’s or Beckett’s experimentation with repetition and baby talk. Wayne Koestenbaum’s Cerebral, Smutty Essays Playfully Disobey the Rules 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z The product of a brilliant mind reckoning with the brutal caprices of fascism, the novel now feels like much more than a curious entry in the Beckett canon. The Alternative Facts of Samuel Beckett’s “Watt” 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z “That was the connection I had with Beckett,” Mr. Wilson said in his dressing room at the Ardhowen Theater after Saturday night’s performance, as his paper-white makeup and gray wig were painstakingly removed. Critic’s Notebook: Happy Days Beckett Festival Arrives in Northern Ireland 2012-08-27T21:49:32Z Do you only want to do small theatrical productions of Beckett in regional theatre? Daenerys Tells All! 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z If Beckett is right, then Proust has repudiated what some maintain is the novel’s most honored function, the moral education of the reader. A Century of Proust 2013-05-02T18:12:35Z 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 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 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 In the Bible, unnamability is evidence of holiness; for Beckett, it is the cornerstone of the absurd. The Rise of the Nameless Narrator 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z Few, if any dramatists, made better use of the resonance of the unspoken than Beckett. Onstage, Michael Gambon’s Depth Transcended the Unspoken 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z 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 "One consequence is that the reader of the letters has little idea of why Beckett keeps shuttling between Dublin and Paris and Hamburg and London." Here and Now: Letters, 2008‑2011 by Paul Auster and JM Coetzee – review 2013-05-20T07:00:02Z By this time she had given up theatre performances, partly because of Beckett's death and also because of her failure to conquer her stage fright. Obituary: Billie Whitelaw 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z I became obsessed, not with Beckett’s work, but with his life. I Was a Teenage Samuel Beckett: Or, My Literary Biography Problem 2012-01-11T17:47:41Z At worst, the sporadic leaping from allusion to allusion is distracting and pedantic, as in the story “Waiting,” where in one paragraph the narrator discusses Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Wharton, Anderson, Joyce, Porter, Faulkner and Beckett. ‘Paper Lantern’ and ‘Ecstatic Cahoots,’ by Stuart Dybek It's like Beckett, in a nice house or coffee shop. TV from the outer limits of the EPG 2013-02-23T06:00:00Z 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 His opening set, performed by the ensemble Cantata Profana, packed in references to Highland bagpipes, Balinese funerary rites, Minimalism, Borges, Beckett and Buddha. Review: Matthew Welch Offers Ethereal Chamber Music at the Stone 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z 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 Beckett, as it happens, is ideal for pandemic times — his eerie dread and disconnection, the way his characters’ thoughts torment and fester. Battered but Unbowed: How Beckett Speaks to a New Era 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z 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 The doodles of Joyce included in the textbooks, said Heaton, show how much the Ulysses author was on Beckett's mind. Samuel Beckett manuscript offers 'intimate' look into his mind 2013-06-04T13:28:16Z And if you think such an image doesn’t tally with your idea of a Beckett hero, well, it’s healthy to have your preconceptions of art shaken up every now and then. Review: ‘Krapp’s Last Tape,’ a Melancholy Tone Poem 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z But, while I admire Haddon's thematic boldness, I find myself resisting the underlying pessimism of a play that makes Beckett look like Little Mary Sunshine. Polar Bears 2010-04-06T23:48:00Z Yet, ironically, Hanson's utter lack of pretense of the performance made her, I thought, the greater, purer, more believable Beckett figure. Suzan Hanson brings immediacy, authenticity to Long Beach Opera's 'La Voix Humaine' 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z Both works by Pinter and Beckett will play in repertoire under the direction of Sean Mathias. Crudup and Hensley to join McKellen, Stewart 2013-05-06T15:40:12Z Beckett's comic disgust with life – "a cat's flux" – is, he discovers, "the essence of Buddhism". Teach Us to Sit Still by Tim Parks ? review 2011-07-14T09:00:01Z 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 At the moment, I am fixed on Milton, but I always think Beckett is interesting. Alice Oswald, poet – portrait of the artist 2012-10-02T18:04:37Z The emphasis on recurrence and repetition echoes Strindberg’s “Ghost Sonata” and Beckett’s “Play” and more recently Enda Walsh’s works, in which characters feel compelled to revisit and re-create past trauma. Review: ‘This Was the End,’ a Spectral Riff on Chekhov 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z 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 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 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 They are the greats, and Samuel Beckett is one of them. Nick Clegg: My hero Samuel Beckett 2010-04-30T21:00:00Z 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 |
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