Hello and goodbye folks Anna has moved over to BlueSky: @annamcmullan.bsky.social lots of Beckett on there too including newly relocated Staging Beckett!
On Beckett's birthday, we've published @SimonOkotie's latest reflections as a Beckett Creative Fellow, 'In Search of The Lost Ones.'
Read about Simon's search and his experience of the Beckett archive (so far!) here:
https://t.co/hqnFS18F9I
#samuelbeckett#beckettstudies
CFP: Samuel Beckett En Central Europe (20-21 April 2023) at CEFRES library and Charles University, Prague.
Closing dates for abstracts is the 31st January.
https://t.co/FPBokOD9Vc
The Beckett Research Centre @UniofReading is delighted to announce that we will be hosting Claire-Louise Bennett and @SimonOkotie as the Beckett Creative Fellows for this academic year, 2022-23.
More information on our Fellows can be found here: https://t.co/eBWRYTsdCL
Announcement
Next month @AbbeyTheatre, we’re partnering with
@InuaEllams and @FuelTheatre to bring #05Fest to Dublin – a festival that elevates poetry to centre stage & unites Inua's work across different styles & locations. Here's what's happening
1st July – 8th July 👇🧵
Per the @V_and_A, the Theatre & Performance Archives are being relocated to the new V&A East Storehouse and will be inaccessible until 2024.
This includes Beckett material! We have updated our Location Register accordingly.
https://t.co/eBzJX6iBfJ
@BeckettSociety
On the 25th of March, the historical Freedom Day in #Belarus, we will be releasing the recording of our dystopian show Dogs of Europe, online on our YouTube page available to stream over wknd. We hope to support our audience however we can during the horrendous war in #Ukraine
Beckett Announcement! @ReelAbilities presents ME TO PLAY, a documentary following two professional actors with Parkinson’s disease as they develop a production of Samuel Beckett’s #Endgame, at the Marlene Meyerson JCC (NYC) on Fri, April 8, 5:00 PM ET. See Thread for all tickets.
Accomplished writer + editor Michael Coffey has produced an original work about Samuel Becket's unfinished 6-page manuscript and the transformative power of the Irishman's fiction. @mcoffey606@PublishersWkly https://t.co/mRWxeY1Qs3
"Robert Sheehan's Clov is magnificent." - The Sunday Independent
Read more about #GateEndgame in this weekend's Sunday Independent. 🕶️
https://t.co/mQPMQj6Ej0
London mayor Sadiq Khan has warned that the government’s decision to cut arts funding in the capital by more than £70 million will deliver a "devastating blow" to the city’s creative sector https://t.co/cFF2BTZdgw
The last batch of tickets for Laethanta Sona at the Samuel Beckett Theatre have just been released for sale.
@AbbeyTheatre@DubTheatreFest
https://t.co/uMJ3Zp1T9l
#MarkRavenhill101 in case you missed this earlier the lovely folk at Bruntwood Prize are archiving my playwriting tweets so you can read them easily. Can you retweet so others know about this ? Thanks.
Ruby Cohn, described as the "doyenne of Beckett scholars," was born OTD in 1922. She wrote numerous books and articles on Beckett and they became friends. She was a professor of comparative drama at the University of California, Davis for thirty years.