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Samuel Beckett

Samuel Barclay Beckett (/ˈbɛkɪt/; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet, who lived in Paris for most of his adult life and wrote in both English and French. He is widely regarded as among the most influential writers of the 20th century.

Beckett's work offers a bleak, tragicomic outlook on human existence, often coupled with black comedy and gallows humour, and became increasingly minimalist in his later career. He is considered one of the last modernist writers, and one of the key figures in what Martin Esslin called the "Theatre of the Absurd."

Beckett was awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his writing, which—in new forms for the novel and drama—in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation." He was elected Saoi of Aosdána in 1984.

Biography

Early life and education

The Becketts were members of the Anglican Church of Ireland. The family home, Cooldrinagh in the Dublin suburb of Foxrock, was a large house and garden complete with tennis court built in 1903 by Samuel's father, William. The house and garden, together with the surrounding countryside where he often went walking with his father, the nearby Leopardstown Racecourse, the Foxrock railway station and Harcourt Street station at the city terminus of the line, all feature in his prose and plays.

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Houston Press 11 Aug 2020

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15 Heroines and 2 Becketts

British Theatre Guide 09 Aug 2020

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Happy Days after all

British Theatre Guide 07 Aug 2020

Published. 7 August 2020. Reporter. David Upton Share ... A production of Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days, by acclaimed director David Thacker, will now be shown online after a private performance was filmed ... ....

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Stage director Werner Düggelin dies aged 90

Swissinfo 07 Aug 2020

He got to know figures like playwright Eugène Ionesco and Roger Blin, the French director who staged the first performance of Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot” in 1953 – a play which Düggelin ......

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Dubai: 'Together-Apart', a play set in a lockdown, comes to The Junction

Gulf News 05 Aug 2020

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'Alkazi Saab wanted us to be the very best versions of ourselves'

Mid Day 05 Aug 2020

"I am heartbroken, depressed and at an utter loss of words. It is a dark day for the world of Indian theatre. Whatever the theatre scene in India is today is thanks to Mr Ebrahim Alkazi ... Ranjit Hoskote ... Nadira Babbar ... Some of his famous directorial works were Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, Mohan Rakesh's Ashadh ka ek din and Tughlaq by Karnad....

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Nancy Cunard, the interwar poet and rebel descended from Robert Emmet’s family

The Irish Times 04 Aug 2020

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Announcing the 2020 Houston Theater Awards

Houston Press 04 Aug 2020

Players), Jenna Morris as Mouth in Not I, Part of Samuel Beckett’s Ladies Night (Mildred's Umbrella Theatre Co.) and Briana Resa as Dolores in Empanada Loca (Obsidian Theater) ... Christina Giannelli for Peer Gynt (Classical Theatre Company) and Grey Starbird for Samuel Beckett's Ladies Night (Mildred’s Umbrella Theatre Co.)....

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Galway International Arts Festival: Like a phoenix from the flames

The Irish Times 04 Aug 2020

Usually, the place would be hopping. This year it was “positively funereal”, says festival director Paul Fahy. According to data from the city council, footfall in that period was 150,000 this year, compared to 850,000 in 2019 ... In Pan Pan’s version of Samuel Beckett’s Cascando, the audience is led through the city streets with headphones ... Uncertain ... ....

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Ebrahim Alkazi passes away: Feisel Alkazi and Amal Allana on their father’s legacy

Indian Express 04 Aug 2020

ALSO READ . In pictures ... Among his critically acclaimed directorial ventures are Dharamvir Bharati’s Andha yug (published 1953; The Blind Age), Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot (1952), Mohan Rakesh’s Ashadh ka ek din (1958; One Day in Ashadha), and Karnad’s Tughlaq (1964), the last of which is usually considered to be his finest ... Twitter ... Facebook ... ....

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The 40 best Irish fictional characters – in order

The Irish Times 01 Aug 2020

From The Plough and the Stars. Play, 1926. It befits an unsentimental classic like The Plough and the Stars that its heart resides in such an unlikely place ... 39. Aisling. From Oh My God, What a Complete Aisling. Book, 2017 ... 38 ... 37 ... 36 ... It’s a question Samuel Beckett would have dismissed, stripping his tragicomic masterpiece of colloquialisms and clues ... ....

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The unforgiving storyteller: Morrissey's lyrics remain as vital today as ever

Music News 31 Jul 2020

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Every Step the EU Takes Toward Financial Unity Sows New Seeds of Its Potential Collapse

CounterPunch 31 Jul 2020

Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot” is a play featuring two characters waiting for a character, Godot, who never arrives. As such, it is a useful metaphor for the goings-on of the European Union (EU) ... The pattern is virtually always the same ... On to the details ... Simply waiting for a mythical Godot, as Beckett highlighted, will get us nowhere ... ....