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Waiting for Godot turns 66: how the play changed theatre forever
The National 17 Jan 2021
It may be a play “in which nothing happens, twice” but Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot has intrigued, baffled and entertained millions of theatre goers since it was first performed in Paris on January 5 in 1953 ... Godot – and Beckett himself for that matter – occupy a halfway house somewhere between being highbrow culture and household name....
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'2020 was going to be the most amazing year ever for us'
The Irish Times 16 Jan 2021
It is the morning after the opening weekend of her latest theatrical venture and Anne Clarke is feeling tired but buoyant ... It was really quite overpowering.” ... Landmark Live’s second production – Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days, starring Siobhán McSweeney and Marty Rea – also planned to offer audiences a live-performance/live-stream option ... ....
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Postcards From A Mongrel Nation: How Therapy? Defied The Troubles
The Quietus 16 Jan 2021
In 1989, Holmes brought rave culture to Northern Ireland by putting on the first Sugarsweet night in Belfast ... Music was an escape ... James Joyce is fucking my sister didn’t really mean anything; it was just a way of saying that it was ripping my own culture apart.” Later, Cairns seeks inspiration in the writings of Flann O’Brien and Samuel Beckett....
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Mariam Margolyes says ‘clown’ Boris Johnson is responsible for coronavirus ‘mess’
AOL 14 Jan 2021
Miriam Margolyes condemned Boris Johnson when she appeared on Thursday's Good Morning Britain ... When asked if she'll go for the vaccine when she returns to the UK, Miriam said ... They need their heads seen to ... Tom Hickey as Nagg and miriam Margolyes as Nell in Samuel Beckett's "Endgame" directed by Simon McBurney at the Duchess Theatre in London ... Up Next....
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Netflix: 25 films to watch out for in 2021
The Irish Times 13 Jan 2021
Nobody now doubts that Netflix enjoys the status of a major film studio. Indeed, few of its competitors deal so comprehensively in old-school Hollywood genres ... Their captive audience may be captive for sometime yet ... Beckett ... Netflix haven’t thrown a squillion dollars at a Samuel Beckett biopic ... ... Jeymes Samuel’s debut feature is closer to the real thing....
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Three-bed semi on the right track in East Wall at €575,000
The Irish Times 12 Jan 2021
This gives it an ease of access to Connolly Station, the Red-line Luas at Busáras and the off-road cycle path that takes you down to the Samuel Beckett Bridge, commuting options that other parts of East Wall do not enjoy access to quite as readily. Number 25 is one of a pair of semis on a mostly terraced stretch and has an east-facing back garden ... ....
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Tommy: "On the low days I need company to be drawn out of myself"
RTE 12 Jan 2021
Tommy Tiernan is back with his unconventional chat show. He talks to Donal O'Donoghue about the art of chat, the stress of stand up and the wonder of Derry Girls ... And thus, the word becomes flesh, sort of ... I survive ... Yet he is still looking ever forward, citing Samuel Beckett’s line of having nothing to say but being compelled to say it....
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Oh, how I miss Paris... city of a thousand stories
Belfast Telegraph 11 Jan 2021
My desires for this year are really very modest. I just want to visit Paris again. Covid has delivered many nasty and tragic blows to many people. it has also kept me away from Paris for the first time since I was 16 years old ... Preferably in the spring ... But that's the thing about Paris ... Samuel Beckett was also a Parisian resident of many years ... ....
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Oh, how I miss Paris... the city of a thousand stories
Belfast Telegraph 11 Jan 2021
My desires for this year are really very modest. I just want to visit Paris again. Covid has delivered many nasty and tragic blows to many people. it has also kept me away from Paris for the first time since I was 16 years old ... Preferably in the spring ... But that's the thing about Paris ... Samuel Beckett was also a Parisian resident of many years ... ....
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‘A lonesome memory’: Adobe Theater takes on playwright Samuel Beckett’s one-man play ‘Krapp’s Last Tape’
Albuquerque Journal 10 Jan 2021
Philip J. Shortell stars in “Krapp’s Last Tape.” ... The Adobe Theater will stream what is considered one of Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett’s finest works at 7.30 p.m. Thursday, Jan ... Written in 1958, this classic Beckett play has lured actors such as John Hurt, Brian Dennehy, Michael Gambon and even the playwright Harold Pinter to the stage. ....
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The fascinating life and work of Irish artist Hilary Heron
RTE 05 Jan 2021
In Paris, her contact was the Irish playwright Samuel Beckett, to whom she was related through marriage ... Heron regularly socialised with Beckett and Dechevaux-Dumesnil and the writer, in particular, was her ticket to the Paris art world and reguarly introduced her to artists, critics, galleries and exhibitions....
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