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News in-depthCity of London
City of London seeks to redefine itself as dining destination
...Coq d’Argent, a rooftop restaurant overlooking the BoE, used to be “a sea of suits but . . . not anymore”, said David Loewi, managing director of its owner D&D London....
November 5, 2023
Theatre
Godot at 70: waiting for Beckett’s classic to evolve
...Godot helped create a new theatrical style, defined by recursive dialogue and enigmatic dramaturgy, which prefigured Edward Albee, Harold Pinter and David Mamet....
January 5, 2023
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
UK politics
Dominic Raab and other Tory MPs prepare for life after parliament
...They include Dame Margaret Beckett and Dame Margaret Hodge. While some former MPs struggle to adjust to life in the private sector those with previous experience in the commercial world can prosper....
September 15, 2023
FT SeriesFT Magazine’s London design special 2023
What to see at the London Design Festival
...Featuring chairs made in Peckham, plates from Hackney, bendy steelwork console tables and chairs from Barnaby Lewis in Bermondsey and tableware from David Mellor Design in the Peak District, the café will...
September 9, 2023
InterviewTheatre
Howzat?! New play pairs Harold Pinter and Samuel Beckett on the cricket pitch
...Pinter and Beckett were far from the only playwrights to be bowled over by cricket: Tom Stoppard, Alan Ayckbourn, Terence Rattigan and David Hare are among the legions of literary cricket fans who could...
September 9, 2022
FT SeriesBest books of the year 2022
Best books of 2022: Fiction in translation
...Maylis Besserie’s Beckett — like Beckett’s characters — is a faltering presence steeped in bleakness and black humour....
November 25, 2022
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
ReviewTheatre
The Comedy of Errors, Shakespeare’s Globe — daft farce haunted by shadows
...Jordan Metcalfe’s Dromio of Syracuse, meanwhile, beautifully mixes physical knockabout with Beckett-like musings on existence. “Am I Dromio? Am I myself?” he cries as he scales a rope ladder....
June 1, 2023
ReviewTheatre
Further than the Furthest Thing, Young Vic review — a volcanic contemporary classic
...Like many of Samuel Beckett’s couples, Alice and Edgar seem trapped in a hellish space, mutually dependent in a way only they understand....
March 23, 2023
ReviewTheatre
Mrs Warren’s Profession review — a stinging satire on family and exploitation
...Loveday Ingram’s staging for b*spoke theatre company echoes Beckett, Stoppard and Magritte as well as the work of the two men themselves The performances are drolly enjoyable....
November 24, 2022
HTSI
Cult Shop: a Bloomsday odyssey to Ulysses Rare Books
...“When we were young, it was just his hobby,” David explains of his father....
June 9, 2022
HTSI
Lucas Zwirner: ‘Being an artist is a calling – you can’t just want to be one’
...I’m working on a book of Virginia Woolf’s art criticism for David Zwirner Books, so I’ve been reading the proof on my tablet....
October 2, 2021
ReviewFiction
Paris is a Party, Paris Is a Ghost by David Hoon Kim — a haunting, surreal debut
...Paris Is a Party, Paris Is a Ghost by David Hoon Kim, Farrar, Straus and Giroux $26, 256 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
July 16, 2021
ReviewTheatre
Michael Sheen shines in Under Milk Wood at the National Theatre. Plus: Happy Days and J’Ouvert
...Alan David is particularly funny as the quietly seething Mr Pugh, dreaming of poisoning his nagging wife (Cleo Sylvestre)....
June 25, 2021
The Big Read
Blockchain and financial markets: will computers push out brokers?
...Larry David stars in the company’s commercials. The FTX chief executive has even mused about growing big enough to buy Goldman Sachs....
April 5, 2022
Architecture
Calendar houses — the mansions built as mystical puzzles
...“Look at the portraits of Elizabeth, which are so laden with symbolism,” Beckett says....
June 18, 2021
FT Live
Inside Politics: who will win the UK general election?
Exclusively for FT subscribers
Wednesday, 8 MayDigital Conference
David Cameron
Cameron faces probe into links with Greensill at heart of UK government
...Former UK prime minister David Cameron is facing a probe by an influential standards watchdog over his links to Lex Greensill, the Australian financier whose eponymous company collapsed this month....
March 29, 2021
Theatre
Playwright Enda Walsh — on love, biscuits and his new work ‘Medicine’
...Commentators often draw comparisons with Samuel Beckett, but Walsh sees broader connections. “I come from the Irish tradition and the Irish play tradition is not sociological drama,” he says....
July 30, 2021
Jo Ellison
‘The Archers’ Covid-19 monologues
...It was a bit like Beckett, were Beckett less concerned with death and more preoccupied with “compaction” in the farm machinery, where to find vanilla extract, and the cricket captaincy....
June 5, 2020
Letter
Letter: Irish playwright could pad up for ‘The Archers’
...In fact, Sam and that “boring dude”, David Archer, might have enjoyed talking about cricket....
June 12, 2020
ReviewTheatre
Best new London theatre — Maxine Peake in The Welkin, Beckett triple bill, The Sunset Limited
...★★★★☆ Beckett triple bill Jermyn Street Theatre, London While The Welkin works across a huge canvas, Trevor Nunn’s Beckett triple bill at the tiny Jermyn Street Theatre is a triptych of Samuel Beckett...
January 23, 2020
Britain after Brexit
The sound of silence will signal a Brexit breakthrough Premium content
...The talks remain still stuck in a Waiting for Godot-type limbo, with both sides accusing the other of being unwilling to make the big first move (for more Samuel Beckett references see this insightful piece...
October 1, 2020
David Allen Green
Can Queen Elizabeth sack Boris Johnson?
...Among those being suggested are former Conservative chancellor Kenneth Clarke and longtime Labour MP Margaret Beckett....
October 1, 2019
ReviewCrime books
Short review: The Scent of Death by Simon Beckett
...Forensic specialist David Hunter is called in, but then another floor collapses, revealing a closed-off chamber with more bodies strapped into beds....
April 18, 2019
Geoff Dyer
Alasdair Gray’s legacy is a reinvention of Scotland
...geoff.dyer@ft.com Letter in response to this column: Gray was an exclusivist and deserves criticism / From Dr David Webster, Cathcart, Glasgow, UK...
January 6, 2020
The Questionnaire
Writer David Hare: ‘I walk a lot and I worry a lot’
...Nobody has really changed the theatre since Samuel Beckett with Waiting for Godot and John Osborne with Look Back in Anger. Nobody else in my lifetime has changed the art form in which we work....
July 26, 2019

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