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...It is hard to avoid the conclusion that setting Beckett to music is a challenge destined for failure....
...The Brooklyn-based artist is best known for her colourful cubist-inspired paintings, which draw from writers including Beckett and Dostoevsky, and attempt to find meaning in the “ordinary” and “banal”....
...Beckett, an associate professor at UCL’s Bartlett School of Architecture, who will spend several days in a booth in the gallery that’s been lined with forest-floor microbes....
...Think of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Josephine Tey, James M Cain, Richard Stark, Pascal Garnier — think of Georges Simenon! Let me make an essential distinction....
...It has become a cliché, like Samuel Beckett’s “Fail better” — a saying that has migrated from literature to T-shirts and tattoo parlours....
...“It doesn’t matter whether you’re reading in a studio or doing a Beckett monologue on stage. It’s performance.”...
...It’s as if Samuel Beckett had written a sitcom. ★★★★☆ In cinemas and on Curzon Home Cinema from December 26...
...“With the UK’s cost of living crisis looming, we expect a weaker consumer recovery to restrain retail sales further ahead,” said Bethany Beckett, economist at Capital Economics....
...Stepping away from Richard Burton’s mesmerising delivery, he is sprightly, driven, springing about the stage, listening intently, catching the mood of the moment, rolling the rich words across the stage...
...Samuel Beckett, looking austere in sweaters that emphasised his thinness....
...Robertson’s letter, written in November 1997, came days after Richard Evans, the then chief executive of British Aerospace — now BAE Systems — wrote to Cook to complain about the slow release of spare parts...
...“Everyone is living on debt and for the majority of people no extra funds are round the corner,” said Will Beckett, co-founder of the steak restaurant chain Hawksmoor....
...Richard Jones’s caustically funny production (which is preceded by Rough for Theatre II, a short existential skit about the worth of a life) is pitched on this border between meaningful and meaningless....
...“There are a lot of frustrated millionaires out there who can’t get to their boats,” said Mr Beckett....
...And Richard Eyre’s gently paced staging, which comes to Broadway from London’s Bridge Theatre, stretches to 90 minutes without an interval....
...“What is likely to happen will mean a bit of Nato command and control being mobilised, and a few hundred trainers [being sent],” said Lord Richards, a former commander of Nato forces in Afghanistan and later...
...Almeida, London, February 1-29 almeida.co.uk Beckett Triple Bill Glowing performances distinguish Trevor Nunn’s delicate triple bill of Beckett shorts about age, memory and regret....
...Close to a fifth of independent shareholders voted against the reinstatement of Ms van Gene and Sir Richard Beckett, who have served on the board for 13 and 10 years respectively — longer than the nine years...
...Daniel Radcliffe and Alan Cumming will be in the same space just before them in a new staging of Beckett’s mordant existentialist classic Endgame (Old Vic from January 27)....
...Ken Clarke and Margaret Beckett bring with them experience from the politics of 1970s, when the Commons was crammed with powerful speakers capable of making persuasive speeches....
...Meanwhile another columnist, Richard Littlejohn, recently referred to the Irish prime minister Leo Varadkar as “pipsqueak ingrate . . . Lenny Verruca”. “It’s a joke,” says Greig....
...His 100 standout moments include a spread in Junior Bazaar, November 1945, by Herman Landshoff (pictured), Edward Steichen’s surprisingly racy work for Vogue in the 1920s and Richard Avedon’s iconic 1965...
...“I had done a couple of costumes for [Hare’s play] Murmuring Judges, and [director] Richard Eyre invited me to the premiere and dinner afterwards. It was a coup de foudre, for both of us,” she says....
...It also recommended votes against Sir Richard Beckett, Debra Van Gene and Elizabeth McMeikan, who is senior independent director of Wetherspoons and up-for-sale airline Flybe, as well as holding multiple...
...Biographies of note in the early part of the year include Richard J Evans’s Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History (Little Brown, February) — the first one of the late historian and polymath....
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