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Theater in 2024 — the silver lining of a challenging year

The Los Angeles Times 09 Dec 2024
The stark beauty of Samuel Beckett's absurdist classic, part music hall romp, part abstract painting, was awakened in a production starring two gifted comics who didn't overplay their slapstick hands, Rainn Wilson and Aasif Mandvi.
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YOUR SUNDAY READING LIST: More Newspapers Unionizing, Cops Are Too Damn Expensive, and Now Hiring: ...

Portland Mercury 08 Dec 2024
Waiting for Godot Is Samuel BeckettStraight, No Chaser. One of the central plays of the 20th century, Samuel Beckett's famously bleak comedy "Waiting for Godot" has been adapted, reinvented, ...
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I wanted to love or loathe The Devil Wears Prada but…

The Times/The Sunday Times 08 Dec 2024
... of Waiting for Godot, I could have come back with the planet-sized opinion that I haven’t endured such a tedious two hours since the last time I saw Samuel Beckett’s pointless postwar plodabout.
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Struggling Toward the Heights: Intricacies and Obligations of World Order Design

Jurist 06 Dec 2024
In turn, any such transformation would need to rest upon imaginative and systematic “design” processes ... Quite the contrary ... Constitution ... The reader may be usefully reminded here of Irish playwright Samuel Beckett's illuminating observation in Endgame.
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Theater Review: Waiting for Godot Is Samuel Beckett—Straight, No Chaser

Portland Mercury 04 Dec 2024
One of the central plays of the 20th century, Samuel Beckett's famously bleak comedy Waiting for Godot has been adapted, reinvented, and reimagined countless times, but Portlanders would do well to ...
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Caspar David Friedrich: the racked Romantic painter who inspired Beckett and Bambi

AOL 04 Dec 2024
... to say to us? He’s been appropriated by Nazis, denounced as petit bourgeois by Marxist theorists, and variously seen as the inspiration for Walt Disney’s Bambi and Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot.
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Ferdia Lennon wins Wodehouse Prize and is one of several Irish authors on Nero Awards shortlists

The Irish Times 03 Dec 2024
“For Samuel Beckett, the act of writing was the placing of stains on silence and nothingness,” Lennon said ... READ MORE. Election 2024 final results ... .
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Ferdia Lennon wins Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize for ‘delightful’ novel

The Observer 02 Dec 2024
The prize, set up in 2000, seeks to recognise the funniest new novels that best evoke the spirit of PG Wodehouse’s work ... The Norwich-based author joked that “For Samuel Beckett, the act of writing was the placing of stains on silence and nothingness ... .
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Are global banking rules finished?

Gulf-Times 29 Nov 2024
But these watered-down measures are also in doubt ... But we heard very little about Basel at the group’s summit in Brazil this month ... The stakes are high, and the situation resembles Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot more than his Endgame ... ....
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Thursday briefing: The Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire brings respite – but for how long, and what comes next?

AOL 28 Nov 2024
You might know that famous portrait of Samuel Beckett, staring straight down the lens of the camera; photographer John Haynes’ favourite, detailed in this week’s My Best Shot column (and pictured above), is a different one.
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Samuel Beckett smoking a French cigarette: John Haynes’s best photograph

The Guardian 27 Nov 2024
‘One day, I was summoned to a pub near the Royal Court theatre where Samuel Beckett was looking at my work ... I knew Samuel Beckett’s reputation ... of Beckett ... I remember taking Beckett’s portrait in 1973.
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Ireland has a cultural moment, from rock and books to cinema

Potter Leader-Enterprise 27 Nov 2024
"I think the country has always defined itself through its culture and particularly its writers and poets," said Barton, pointing to the likes of James Joyce and Samuel Beckett, who earned world renown ... adm-cla/phz/fg ... ....
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Waiting for Trump, apprehensively

Dawn 26 Nov 2024
IS Donald Trump the Godot the world is waiting for, with apprehension and hope? But Godot, as Samuel Beckett’s 1949 cult play suggests, may not show up at all, ever.
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Tehran’s Homa Hall hosting “Waiting for Godot”

Tehran Times 25 Nov 2024
TEHRAN- An adaptation of Irish novelist and theater director Samuel Beckett’s 1953 play “Waiting for Godot” is currently on stage at Tehran’s Homa Hall ... .

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