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...Both Van Hulle and Nixon are Beckett scholars (they are co-directors of the Samuel Beckett Digital Manuscript Project) and so there’s plenty of Beckettiana here....
...At least since Christopher Isherwood turned his camera eye on it in the 1930s, it has been treated by outsiders as more an imagined than a real space....
...It’s a play to rival Beckett in its use of stage space to create existential comedy....
...That line from Samuel Beckett’s Rough for Theatre I has acquired a whole new topicality. And if anyone knows about waiting, it’s Beckett....
...“Au contraire,” Samuel Beckett responded to suggestions that he was English, and Ireland has indeed become the antithesis to Brexit Britain: an independent nation happy with the sovereignty and solidarity...
...Sarah Callandar-Beckett owns and runs Combermere Abbey in Lancashire....
...One danger of this sort of writing is superciliousness: the sense you get from, say, early Beckett that the writer feels superior to the footling conventions of realistic fiction....
...Pryor describes his experiences of “organo-therapy”, recalls an intense childhood friendship based on Turing’s own relationship with Christopher Morcom, suffers dreams and visions, and reflects — in language...
...The first book provides a rigorous overview of camp’s etymological and phenomenological origins: from the effeminate contraposto of Classical sculpture and Christopher Isherwood’s Low Camp vs High Camp debates...
...On one wall of the broad mahogany staircase, an entire cast of disembodied heads float on wooden shelves, many of which featured in her 2014 show: Christopher Walken, Rupert Everett and more....
...As Evan Parker, the UK’s greatest exponent of free jazz, settles in for our interview, he pulls out a copy of Christopher Ricks’s Beckett’s Dying Words....
...Senior Conservatives, including David Cameron and Theresa May, have mockingly called Thornberry “Lady Nugee” — a reference to her honorary title as the spouse of a judge, Christopher Nugee, and an attempt...
...At the same time, his writing doesn’t invite you to spend too much time admiring its stern rejection of ornament, as Beckett or Hemingway or Raymond Carver sometimes do....
...In Solo he plays Beckett, a criminal and mentor of sorts to Alden Ehrenreich’s young Han Solo, with Donald Glover starring as the debonair smuggler Lando Calrissian....
...Beckett’s best years as a writer are now behind him, and though some essential parts of the Beckett canon — among them the prose work Company and the play Not I — are still to come, much of his work-related...
...He is survived by his wife, Nicki, and children Christopher, Jennifer, Edward, Lucy, Rebecca and Emma and nine grandchildren....
...As an undergraduate studying literature, he knew his Greek tragedies, his King Lear, his Nabokov, Eliot and Beckett....
...We spend our life, it’s ours, trying to bring together in the same instant a ray of sunshine and a free bench,” wrote Samuel Beckett in Texts for Nothing. A free bench....
...Christopher Morahan directs....
...Read alongside Christopher Ricks’s magisterial two-volume annotated complete works for Eliot in surround sound....
...The Animals: Love Letters between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy; a copy of Samuel Beckett’s Worstward Ho – it’s an old copy given to me by a new friend; and a collection of Henry Green novels....
...We weep a too-late tear for Christopher Reeve....
...Texts, or, in the Beckett idiom, textes?”...
...Review by James Lovegrove … The Peacock Cloak, by Chris Beckett, Newcon Press, RRP£10.99, 239 pages Beckett’s first short-story collection, The Turing Test, won him the 2009 Edge Hill Short Story Prize...
...He is Samuel Beckett rolled into Flann O'Brien. But one day he should give us a movie – please? we’ll pay?...
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