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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Arts Over Borders: Brian Friel festival puts Brexit centre-stage

The Guardian 14 Aug 2018

The theme of this year’s FrielFest – twinned with the Happy Days festival, dedicated to Samuel Beckett – is art’s power to cross borders, a pointed choice seven months before the British government has to show how it can avoid a post-Brexit hard border on the island of Ireland or across the Irish Sea, the unacceptability of which is one of the few ......

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A Joke

British Theatre Guide 13 Aug 2018

Don Freeman. Universal Arts Production and Scene Change Productions. Assembly Rooms. From 13 August 2018 to 26 August 2018. Rating . *****. Review by Catherine Lamm. A Joke is about, well, a joke. Jokes. How they work and why they work. “There’s an Englishman, an Irishman, and a Scotsman…”. Before even one of the actors enters, we get the feeling that this is an homage to Samuel Beckett, who, sadly, could not be here ... ....

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'Buildings tell stories': how the housing crisis inspired an Edinburgh show

The Guardian 13 Aug 2018

When Geoff Sobelle went to lay a new kitchen floor, the theatremaker found the foundations of a new show. Pulling up the linoleum tiling, he uncovered another layer of linoleum. Beneath that, another still ... The first was a silent-film spoof, All Wear Bowlers, in which two well-dressed wastrels – part Laurel and Hardy, part Vladimir and Estragon in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot – were spat out of a screen and on to the stage ... .......

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Growth Vs. Value: Waiting For GODOT

Seeking Alpha 10 Aug 2018

By Gautam Dhingra, PhD, CFA ... Right?. These questions are on the minds of countless investors, so at the risk of making Samuel Beckett, winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize in literature, turn in his grave, I'd characterize our current predicament as "Waiting for GODOT (Growth's Overdue Decline over Time).". Growth vs ... Growth vs ... Put another way, unlike in the Beckett play, when it comes to the stock market, GODOT won't keep us waiting forever ... ....

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A man trails his nemesis in Bragi �lafsson's darkly comedic 'Narrator'

The Los Angeles Times 10 Aug 2018

The Franz Kafka and Samuel Beckett influences, which are prominent in previous work like “The Pets,” remain, though they are perhaps less pronounced here than the surrealist and nouveau roman touchstones....

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"Run for Recovery" at the Zoo to benefit Recovery Resources: Talk of the Towns

Cleveland 10 Aug 2018

>. BRECKSVILLE, Ohio - Join the BH CAPA (Brecksville Broadview Heights Community Awareness and Prevention Association) team at "Run for Recovery" at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo on Sat., Aug. 18 ... The fundraising goal is $1,000. When registering, select BBHCAPA as your team ... 8.15 a.m ... 9. "Waiting for Godot" is a stimulating play by Samuel Beckett, in which two characters, Vladimir and Estragon, wait for the arrival of someone named Godot ... 8 ... ....

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Meet 'Skate Kitchen' Actor Judah Lang: Fashion Darling, Aspiring Rapper and Jaden Smith Co-Star

The Hollywood Reporter 10 Aug 2018

Lang has collaborated with Versace, Saint Laurent, and ASAP Mob. Judah Lang is on a mission ... Now the 19-year-old is trying his hand at Hollywood with his first role in Crystal Moselle’s Skate Kitchen, in theaters today ... Lang appears as a beatboxing, harmonica wielding renegade named Dusty ... “He’s cool ... “My parents built a theater in our house...They’d put on a bunch of Samuel Beckett plays,” he says ... ....

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‘The marquee could blow away or maybe the tide could come in... that makes it a lovely challenge’

Belfast Telegraph 09 Aug 2018

All the world's a stage, according to Shakespeare ... "I am a fanatical swimmer ... The sixth Happy Days Enniskillen International Beckett Festival honours writer Samuel Beckett in Fermanagh - where he was educated ... Imogen says ... We shall see ... I know they've celebrated Seamus Heaney and Samuel Beckett before and along with Brian Friel, they are all really quite incredible writers ... She recalls ... For more details of the Friel and Beckett festivals ... ....

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Actress Imogen Stubbs on taking Homer's Odyssey to a tent on North Coast beaches

Belfast Telegraph 09 Aug 2018

All the world's a stage, according to Shakespeare ... Stunning setting. Portstewart Strand will host a reading event ... The sixth Happy Days Enniskillen International Beckett Festival honours writer Samuel Beckett in Fermanagh - where he was educated ... I know they've celebrated Seamus Heaney and Samuel Beckett before and along with Brian Friel, they are all really quite incredible writers ... For more details of the Friel and Beckett festivals ... ....

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'Waiting for Godot' to be staged in Salem

The Alliance Review 08 Aug 2018

WDFC Theatrical Productions will present the Samuel Beckett classic "Waiting for Godot" at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday at Union Hall, 547 Prospect St. in Salem. Widely regarded as one of the greatest plays ever written, Godot follows two seemingly homeless men waiting for someone — or something — named Godot ... The result is a comical wordplay of ... ....

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Theatre review: Waiting For Godot, Lyceum Theatre

Scotsman 08 Aug 2018

They are not so old, the two tramps who wait by the road in Garry Hynes’s exquisite and acclaimed Druid Theatre production of Samuel Beckett’s 1953 masterpiece. Waiting For Godot, Lyceum Theatre (****) ... Estragon often passive and hopelessly forgetful, Vladimir more intellectually capable, restless and inventive, given to little private bouts of intense physical comedy, yet bound to Estragon by a bond he cannot break ... ....

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Four Brazilian Artists Choose New York as Headquarters of Their Resistance

Brazzil 08 Aug 2018

Evo� Collective was born a year ago founded by four Brazilian actresses based in NYC ... Segal Theatre ... About the actresses. ... Prior to moving to the U.S., Ma was fully immersed in the theater scene in Brazil where she played the roles of Carmen from The Balcony by Jean Genet, Vladimir from Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, Bobbi from Some Girls by Neil Labute and Muffet from Uncommon Women and Others by Wendy Wasserstein ... ....

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Now Bob Dylan is officially a poet, do other lyricists like Elliott Smith deserve the ...

The Independent 08 Aug 2018

The result was an address unlike any other in the Swedish Academy’s history. Dylan embarked on a dizzying voyage into his musical influences and personal philosophy. Reflections on Aristotle and Plato were interspersed with surprising appreciations of All Quiet on the Western Front and Moby Dick ...   ... he knows me ... His influences ranged from feminist writers like Catharine McKinnon to Samuel Beckett and the Great Russian novelists ... ....

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