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...Written during the winter of 1948-49, the play had been turned down by a half-dozen producers before Beckett’s partner Suzanne Dechevaux-Dumesnil sent it to the actor-director Roger Blin....
...Ruth Rogers, owner of the River Café, said King makes venues that “you simply want to go — whether it’s to sit for five minutes or five hours”....
...Howard Beckett, assistant general secretary and a close ally of Mr McCluskey, is seen as the “continuity candidate”....
...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)....
...Nwandu fuses the basic set-up and arc of Beckett’s groundbreaking play — two dispossessed guys marooned on a road with nowhere to go — with a scorching attack on race relations in America, both now and in...
...Roger Federer, for example, is never more elegant than when minding a missed match point, his entire body attuned to the vibrations of the court....
...Roger McNamee was an early believer in social media....
...Jazz, abstract expressionism and in particular the plays of Samuel Beckett, persuaded him to join a touring theatre....
...of letters, he exudes the kind of restraint which implies immense power in reserve, yet is also, when occasion demands, vain, rumbling or even elegiac, evoking at various moments Shakespeare’s Lear and Beckett...
...The site needed little introduction: the new Richard Rogers-designed Three World Trade Center, where Westfield will run the retail, food and beverage outlets....
...Joyce focused on the city, Beckett the suburbs. “The suburbs of Dublin are everywhere in Beckett. Someone once said to Beckett that all his characters sounded like they had PhDs....
...Dave Sharma, Tel Aviv, Israel From Out of the City, by John Kelly The greats of Irish modernism (Joyce, Beckett and O’Brien) have had little impact on writers within Ireland in recent decades....
...Fittingly, there was a 1980s feel to some of the autumn catalogues: Andy Beckett’s Promised You a Miracle took us back to the first three years of that decade, showing how the new individualist zeitgeist...
...For example, he enthuses on the subject of sport and commends Roger Federer’s “crosscourt backhand volley” as a thing of human beauty....
...Roskam allows himself some bleak comedy – two garage hands out of Beckett via Buster Keaton – amid the gathering of the storm....
...DAME COMMANDER, DBE Margaret Beckett, MP. Angela Watkinson, MP....
...Beckett writes haunting tales about the future, steeping them in a very British sense of insularity and post-imperial impotence....
...“This whole thing has got very combative and quite catty,” Roger Hardman of corporate research firm Hardman & Co said, adding that in his 15 years researching small businesses he had never come across a...
...John Davies’s three life-sized figures, made of resin, fibreglass, paint and mixed media, look like actors in a desolate play by Samuel Beckett....
...Frank Meysman, 59, from Belgium, will take the reins from incumbent chairman Michael Beckett when he retires in December....
...The search is led by senior independent director Roger Burnell, who is looking to appoint headhunters. people@ft.com...
...Beckett was Irish; Ages was commissioned from Dublin’s Abbey Theatre; that’s about it....
...As Vladimir in last year’s production, Patrick Stewart seemed a little ostentatious with his vaudevillean touches, whereas Roger Rees now feels less forced in the role....
...(a) TS Eliot, The Letters of TS Eliot, Volume II: 1923-25 (b) Samuel Beckett, The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume I, 1929-40 (c) Isaiah Berlin, Isaiah Berlin: Letters, 1928-1946 33. Titian....
...On the Old Kent Road the Thomas A Beckett, once a pub with a famous boxing gym, is for sale at £1.8m by Kalmars Residential. It now has a gallery on the ground floor and flats on the first and second....
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