Samuel Beckett

The Beckett list: Neeson joins others in reading his works

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Liam Neeson in Beckett's 'Eh Joe' at John Jay College Liam Neeson gives a remarkable performance as a haunted man nearing the end of his life in Samuel Beckett's "Eh Joe," presented by Dublin's Gate Theatre for the Lincoln...                

Theater Review: ‘I’ll Go On’

epochtimes.com     yesterday          

By Diana Barth Special to The Epoch Times Jul 24, 2008 Mysterious and comedic Beckett Barry McGovern in a consummate performance in the Gate production of “I'll Go On.” (Amelia Stein) NEW YORK—I’ll Go On, the second offering of...                

Jul 24, 2008: First Love at John Jay College - Gerald W Lynch Theater

yahoo.com     yesterday          

'First Love' is Samuel Beckett's disturbing reverie on loss. It tells the story of a man, made homeless in the wake of his father's death, who becomes reluctantly involved with a woman he meets on a park bench in this harsh...                

Death and the dark lady

newstatesman.com     yesterday          

Swimming in a Sea of Death: a Son's MemoirDavid RieffGranta Books, 192pp, £12.99We know how in 2004 Susan Sontag died (acute myeloid leukaemia), but how did she live? This is a real mystery. Her family was not wealthy. She held...                

J.P.N. Land on Arnold Geulincx

readysteadybook.com     yesterday          

Along with Schopenhauer, Samuel Beckett was thought to be particularly influenced by Descartes (who y'all know well enough) and, also, Arnold Geulincx. Who? Well, a bit more information below which comes from the sadly rather...                

Beckett's voice

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Jim Murdoch: Like George Orwell before him, Samuel Beckett had a strong aversion to being filmed or even having his voice recorded...You might imagine that Beckett's reluctance to be interviewed came as a result of the...                

Theater Review | 'First Love': The Sheer Inconvenience, Let Alone Intrusiveness, of Life and Love

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The Sheer Inconvenience, Let Alone Intrusiveness, of Life and Love Béatrice de Géa for The New York Times Ralph Fiennes in Samuel Beckett’s “First Love,” part of the Lincoln Center Festival. When a besotted victim of Cupid’s...                

Stratford's 2 musicals offer a study in contrast (AP)

yahoo.com     Jul 23, 2008   7 related          

By MICHAEL KUCHWARA, AP Drama Critic 1 hour, 21 minutes ago STRATFORD, Ontario - It's the impossibly innocent, strawberry-phosphate, brass-band world of Meredith Willson's "The Music Man" up against the sexually aggressive,...                

Calder on Beckett

readysteadybook.com     Jul 23, 2008          

John Calder at Textualities (via Lee): I feel that Beckett's thinking has been misrepresented. That's one reason I wrote The Philosophy of Samuel Beckett. At one Beckett conference in America I mentioned Beckett's view,...                

American Literature and Culture

warwick.ac.uk     Jul 23, 2008          

c] Christina Britzolakis , BA (Witwatersrand), MPhil, DPhil. Helen Dennis, BA, DPhil (York) – Associate Professor She has published on Elizabeth Bishop, Willa Cather, Gender in American Literature and Culture, Adrienne Rich,...                

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