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...It would be strange for a film about Samuel Beckett to be a triumph; maybe even treachery. Failure and futility were his lifeblood....
...This revival of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot has a quirky, contemporary feel. Vladimir and Estragon still wear battered period hats (albeit trilbies rather than the traditional bowlers)....
...One of the big events of this year’s season was the first UK performance of Kurtág’s Endgame, an operatic reworking of Samuel Beckett’s absurdist play, which shows an elderly man and three others in the...
...Samuel Beckett’s early to mid-career work plunges us into a state of bleak and baffling existential torpor....
...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....
...A waistcoat, intricately embroidered by his grandmother and originally worn by his father, was donated by Samuel Beckett in the 1960s....
...(Later he would develop a strong and enduring affinity for the work of mid-20th-century luminaries such as Samuel Beckett, Jorge Luis Borges and Vladimir Nabokov.)...
...Additional reporting by Samuel Agini and Oliver Barnes...
...“It’s like ‘Waiting for Godot’,” said Alain Bokobza, head of global asset allocation at Société Générale, leaning on Samuel Beckett’s absurdist play of the same name to describe the many false dawns for...
...For Samuel Beckett, bringing En attendant Godot to the stage had been a similarly exasperating experience....
...It’s Samuel Beckett, and he’s carrying the slouchy Gucci hobo bag. He asks Didion how things are inside my party. She describes the gathering inside as the “sociopathic centre” of the literary world....
...When the actor John Alderton appeared in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot in 1987, the playwright allegedly advised him to think of Vladimir and Estragon as two batsmen padded up and waiting to go on to...
...The executors of Samuel Beckett’s estate, for example, police the Irish playwright’s work so well that they have prevented a female playing a role in Waiting for Godot. I’m sure there are many more....
...Cole speaks with real passion about “that moment when you’re alone with a text”, citing the capacity of authors such as Wisława Szymborska and Samuel Beckett to “do the thing that is beyond commentary: bear...
...Porter’s exasperation with the erratic state of men’s trousers, and crotches in particular (“Don’t be shy about this intimate detail of good tailoring”, Style, Life & Arts, January 28) brought to mind Samuel...
...He took up acting, appearing in the first Australian production of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot in 1957....
...A 25-year-old actor with a fondness for Samuel Beckett, booze, poetry and outrageous pranks has just got married for the second time, to a beautiful ballet dancer....
...Yell, Sam, If You Still Canby Maylis Besserie, translated by Clíona Ní Ríordáin, Lilliput £13 This daring debut (the first instalment in a projected trilogy) imagines the last months of Samuel Beckett’s...
...Like many of Samuel Beckett’s couples, Alice and Edgar seem trapped in a hellish space, mutually dependent in a way only they understand....
...The tipple might help loosen the tongues of Samuel Beckett and James Joyce, two intellectual titans whose work and lives I find fascinating....
...Directors of Samuel Beckett’s plays face a set of formidable creative and institutional challenges, for the author’s ever-vigilant estate tends to take a dim view of those tempted to stray from the text...
...Lemons joins a venerable list of plays that have juggled with form and language from writers such as Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, Caryl Churchill and Martin Crimp....
...The prose is whittled down, showing everything in relief and reminiscent of the stripped-down emotional specificity of the modernist novels of André Breton or Samuel Beckett....
...Beckett’s Happy Days....
...It has become a cliché, like Samuel Beckett’s “Fail better” — a saying that has migrated from literature to T-shirts and tattoo parlours....
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