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Festival acquired letter playwright wrote to friend in 1958 to apologise for feeling compelled to cancel planned run of Act ...
In the program for “Beckett Briefs,” a bill of three short plays by Samuel Beckett at the Irish Repertory Theatre in New York City, three questions are posed: “Why these plays?” ...
Samuel Beckett remains the theater’s pre-eminent ... primarily “Waiting for Godot,” he wrote many short plays that are an equally important part of his legacy. In about as much time as ...
In Krapp’s Last Tape, Richard Dormer and Samuel West will use recordings they made 30 years earlier, in line with Beckett’s ...
The donation was made by the Dublin Theatre Festival through the support of board member, Tom Clinch and his wife Méav Ní ...
Waiting for Godot has been called ‘the play of the century,’ but that accolade doesn’t make staging Samuel Beckett’s most ... actors (Alexander Joseph plays Boy, a brief role played ...
Born on April 13, 1906, Samuel Beckett remains one of Ireland’s most ... of mainly European playwrights known for their particular plays of absurdist fiction. Works within “The Theatre of ...
With flavours of existential Samuel Beckett play Waiting for Godot and ... claustrophobic innards of some horrid detention centre. The Unseen plays at the Riverside Studios until 14 December ...
During the 1953 world premiere of Samuel Beckett's absurdist masterpiece ... who are recognized leaders in the staging of Beckett's plays and non-dramatic prose texts. In 2006, she directed ...