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Tuesday, 24 November 2020

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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Artwork illuminates Dublin bridge in tribute to Movember campaigner

Belfast Telegraph 24 Nov 2020

Artist Maser and singer-songwriter Damien Dempsey co-designed the illuminated image cast across the distinctive span of the Samuel Beckett Bridge ... The Movember artwork on the Samuel Beckett Bridge (Rohit Verma/Movember/PA) ... The Movember artwork on the Samuel Beckett Bridge (Rohit Verma/Movember/PA)....

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‘Donbass’: The ‘People’s Republic of Donetsk’ and more in the Wild East

People's World 23 Nov 2020

Loznitsa has a documentary as well as a feature film background ... With its absurdist, surreal sensibility, Donbass is arguably more redolent of Samuel Beckett (lest we forget, the playwright of Waiting for Godot fought in the French Resistance during World War II) and Luis Buñuel (The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie), who fled Franco ... See here....

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Today in History: Nov. 22

Times-Tribune 22 Nov 2020

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY. "Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better." — Samuel Beckett. TODAY IS. Today is SUNDAY, NOV . 22, the 327th day of 2020. There are 39 days left in the year. HIGHLIGHT IN HISTORY. FILE - In this Nov. 22, 1963 file photo, President John F ... Texas Governor and Mrs. John Connally are also in the car ... On Nov ... John B ... ....

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Bill Irwin Translates Beckett for Quarantined Audiences in an Online Solo Show

New York Observer 20 Nov 2020

Twenty years ago, I reviewed Bill Irwin in Samuel Beckett’s Texts for Nothing at Classic Stage Company and sourly concluded ... What irked me then about Irwin’s Beckett was its athleticism and fastidious verbal precision ... “Is Samuel Beckett’s writing natural clown territory?” the performer asks early on in his delightful On Beckett / In Screen....

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19 culture picks: Alan Cumming, Constance Wu and Samira Wiley in ‘Uncle Vanya’

The Los Angeles Times 19 Nov 2020

Theater artist Bill Irwin explores the works of Samuel Beckett, the Absurdist playwright known for “Waiting for Godot” and “Happy Days,” in this online offering from New York City’s Irish Repertory Theatre ... Bill Irwin shares the secrets of Samuel Beckett in a master class at the Kirk Douglas....

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Best Virtual Bets: Bollywood, A Cabaret, and A Choir of Man

Houston Press 19 Nov 2020

Heiner Müller has been said to be “the most important dramatist in the German language since the war," has been regard by European critics “as the most important playwright since Samuel Beckett.” One of the late author’s “synthetic ......

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Trevor Nunn to direct Lisa Dwan in Beckett's Happy Days

The Observer 18 Nov 2020

The indomitable Winnie in Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days is now to be portrayed by Lisa Dwan in a 60th-anniversary revival directed by Sir Trevor Nunn at Riverside Studios in London next year ... Samuel Beckett’s Not I ... In 2016, Dwan starred in No’s Knife, an adaptation of Beckett’s prose collection Texts for Nothing at the Old Vic in London....

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Waiting for everything ... or nothing at all

Taipei Times 18 Nov 2020

Time passes slowly for the characters and audiences of Samuel Beckett’s 1953 theater of the absurd classic Waiting for Godot, and yet the play itself has proven timeless, with an ability to be performed in a wide variety of locales and languages....

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BOOKS IN BRIEF

Dawn 15 Nov 2020

... civilisations to the more recent times — from the Shahnama and the Odyssey, to plays by William Shakespeare and Samuel Beckett, and novels by James Joyce and Honore de Balzac, among others — to substantiate his thesis....

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Column: No more waiting; time to move on

Dispatch Argus 15 Nov 2020

Kurt Ullrich ... His presence was quite calming, a warm ship floating on a sea of grass. Every few moments I went to the window to see if he was still there and, before he moved on, I captured a photo of him. I hope he’ll be around until next year, but it’s unlikely ... Or perhaps you’re familiar with the characters in Samuel Beckett’s "Waiting for Godot ." ... ....

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Stephen Rea: 'I was just distraught, I didn't know who I was...'

Irish Independent 15 Nov 2020

It's the dead of a lockdown night in Dublin and, as the camera pans through the deserted streets, Stephen Rea's desolate lilt is the soundtrack to all that has been lost. A city's life force is waning and the actor reads an extract from Samuel Beckett's Malone Dies, in which the narrator portends his own end ... I was distraught....

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