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Memoir of a Snail review — as if Aardman Animation did Samuel Beckett

The Times/The Sunday Times 12 Feb 2025
The opening shot of this Oscar-nominated animation is a close-up on the howling mouth of an ancient dying woman ... So, no, it’s not quite Pixar ... Culture. Film. Related articles. Video Icon. REVIEW ... February 12 2025, 9.00am ... .
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A strange evening awaits at Irish Repertory Theatre, featuring F. Murray Abraham

Daily Record Parsippany 12 Feb 2025
In “Krapp’s Last Tape,” a short one-man play by Samuel Beckett now at Irish Repertory Theatre, reflections and musings are not written down but recorded on tape ... Beckett can be challenging for many audiences ... “Beckett Briefs.
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Shamima Begum's wall of despair: Messages scrawled in English beside British ISIS bride's tent reveal ...

The Daily Mail 10 Feb 2025
'Hell is other people.' ... it's awful!' ... A few inches away, another phrase echoes her entrapment - 'Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful!' - a quote from Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot', itself a meditation on the futility of hope.
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Diaries at the ready: Samuel West lined up to star in Beckett play... in 2036

The Observer 09 Feb 2025
The organisers of the Beckett Biennale, which from next year will celebrate the great Irish playwright Samuel Beckett, are this weekend naming the actor who is signed up to star in a 2036 production of Krapp’s Last Tape at their sixth festival.
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‘People don’t want choreography – they want human beings’: Pina Bausch’s son on her legacy

The Observer 09 Feb 2025
In 2007, the choreographer Pina Bausch was awarded the prestigious Kyoto prize ... She went on ... How a child experiences things ... Photograph ... Like Harold Pinter and Samuel Beckett, she created a world that became synonymous with a particular viewpoint ... Show ... .
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Who Is Benedict Cumberbatch’s Wife? Sophie Hunter’s Job & Relationship History

Coming Soon 06 Feb 2025
Photo Credit. Dave Benett . Getty Images for Disney+ ... Here’s everything we know about Benedict Cumberbatch’s wife, their love story, and more ... Her contributions to theater earned her the Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award in 2007 ... .
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All the King’s Censors

The Atlantic 06 Feb 2025
“This is a piece of incoherence in the manner of Samuel Beckett,” the report for a 1960 production of Harold Pinter’s The Caretaker begins, ... An examiner’s report on Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot.
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Steve Martin on Picasso? Oscar Wilde's tea? Comedies on Cape Cod? Don't be absurdist.

Cape Cod Times 06 Feb 2025
Samuel Beckett’s 1951Waiting for Godot” is in Cotuit’s Vivian and Morton Sigel Black Box Theater at 7 p.m ... Beckett’s exploration of hope, humor, despair and whether you can find meaning in the wait.
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Seán Moran: Hurling may regard the FRC as an irrelevance but history suggests otherwise

The Irish Times 04 Feb 2025
... on ‘foreign games,’ as the shorthand was – had completed a couple of decades of being brought to the floor of congress and in the timeless words of Samuel Beckett, failing again but failing better.
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Review | ‘Beckett Briefs’ offers Samuel Beckett in bite-size doses

AM New York 02 Feb 2025
The minority of serious theatergoers who understand, and perhaps even enjoy, the cryptic, absurdist works of playwright Samuel Beckett will surely appreciate “Beckett Briefs,” an expert presentation ...
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‘Cymbeline’ and F. Murray Abraham in ‘Beckett Briefs’ Delight Off Broadway

New York Times 01 Feb 2025
Shakespeare’s overstuffed late play gets an entertaining refresh Off Broadway, where Irish Rep is also offering a program of Samuel Beckett shorts ... .
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‘Beckett Briefs’ Review: Irish Rep’s Spellbinding Short Plays

Wall Street Journal 29 Jan 2025
F. Murray Abraham gives a riveting performance in ‘Krapp’s Last Tape,’ one of three one-acts by Samuel Beckett in a potently succinct production by the New York company ... .
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Edna O’Brien: ‘She could be so queenly and dominating, but then totally wounded by criticism’

The Irish Times 26 Jan 2025
We see many other things in the London apartment where this footage is recorded – cake tins, Christmas cards, a walking frame, handbags, an orchid, a portrait of Samuel Beckett, miscellaneous clutter ...

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