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Happy Days review – Pamela Rabe gives an aching performance in Samuel Beckett’s unrelenting play

The Observer 11 May 2025
The character of Winnie in Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days was described as a “summit part” akin to Hamlet by Dame Peggy Ashcroft, one of the earliest Winnies ... Beckett writes his heroine’s performance as a kind of tragic clowning routine.
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Edward St Aubyn’s comedy of horrors

New Statesman 07 May 2025
One imagines a beaming PG Wodehouse shaking the skeletal hand of Fyodor Dostoevsky, or Kingsley Amis belching with laughter in the unstirring face of Samuel Beckett ... The novels tell not just Patrick’s life story but his creator’s ... Fun ... Parallel Lines.
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Theology gets a snarky, irreverent shake-up in Six Points’ ‘An Act of God’

Pioneer Press 06 May 2025
... an invariably engaging staging with an atmosphere somewhere between a stand-up routine, an afternoon TV gabfest and the more theologically provocative plays of Samuel Beckett or Eugene Ionesco.
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Overwhelmed by the world? Glennon Doyle says focus on staying human at heart

The Los Angeles Times 06 May 2025
The podcast’s title was inspired by a sign with that phrase that hung in her colleague Josie’s second-grade classroom just around the corner from her own at the time ... To help Abby through her grief, Glennon left a Samuel Beckett quote on her pillow ... .
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Analysis: Leinster continue to find new ways to lose big games

The Irish Times 04 May 2025
Leinster found another way to lose ... Their last European triumph in 2018 becomes a little smaller in the rear-view mirror. Samuel Beckett wrote in his novella Worstward Ho ... .
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‘An intuitive genius’: Gary Oldman steps back on to stage as a national treasure

The Observer 04 May 2025
Returning to the venue last week for Samuel Beckett’s one-man play Krapp’s Last Tape, the 67-year-old English actor is a world removed from the young upstart once advised by Rada to do something else for a living ... View image in fullscreen ... Photograph ... .
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Krapp’s Last Tape

British Theatre Guide 03 May 2025
Samuel Beckett ... In Krapp’s Last Tape monologue, eight or nine pages if one counts Samuel Beckett’s fulsome stage directions spread over fifty-five minutes, everything happens and nothing happens.
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In pictures: Trinity College Dublin scholars from 1955 onwards assemble for photograph

The Irish Times 03 May 2025
As our photographs show, the well-dressed scholars span a number of generations ... Previous scholars at Trinity include former president Mary Robinson, writer Samuel Beckett and film director Lenny Abrahamson. Names of people in the group photograph ... .
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Holy Krapp! Gary Oldman and Stephen Rea unspool Beckett’s masterpiece about memory

The Guardian 02 May 2025
Since my late teens I’ve returned time and again to Samuel Beckett’s brief but monumental one-act play in which a purple-nosed, “wearish old man” spools through reels of memoir recorded each year on his birthday.
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Former Kildare hotel with connections to famous Irish writer and Nobel Prize winner on sale for €1.75m

Irish Independent 02 May 2025
A former hotel in Co ...
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Krapp’s Last Tape review — Stephen Rea is compelling throughout

The Times/The Sunday Times 02 May 2025
BETA. Today's Quizle. Q. Test your knowledge. Samuel Beckett’s stage directions are densely detailed, but every actor does their Krapp their own way ... Same words, same costume of white. Culture. Theatre & Dance. Related articles. FIRST NIGHT ... .
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Gary Oldman

BBC News 02 May 2025
The Oscar-winning actor is starring in Samuel Beckett's play, Krapp's Last Tape, at York Theatre Royal until 17 May, his first stage role since the late 1980s ... This video can not be played .
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Former Kildare hotel offers scope for redevelopment at €1.75m

The Irish Times 30 Apr 2025
The existing property features the original house, famously known as the childhood home of renowned playwright Samuel Beckett’s mother, alongside a series of traditional outbuildings.
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Get out this weekend in Newport County: Police parade, Jane's Walk, art openings and more

The Newport Daily News 30 Apr 2025
2, which began its life as music for a theatrical production of Samuel Beckett’s novella Company. Beckett’s favorite composer, Franz Schubert, is featured on the second half when the Newport String Quartet performs his monumental String Quartet No.
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Stephen Rea: ‘You can’t not work if someone wants you’

The Times/The Sunday Times 28 Apr 2025
Samuel Beckett’s one-man play Krapp’s Last Tape is about an old fellow listening to tapes of himself as a younger man, recounting his lost love. Stephen Rea, who once worked with Beckett, has seen it several times.

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