Check out the programme of the #Beckett Brunch, and get your tickets to join us for a celebration of Beckett's 120th birthday and more! 🗓️Saturday 18 April, 10am–2pm 📍Trinity Long Room Hub, Dublin 🎊 All welcome, free event 📲Tickets & more details at shorturl.at/szMLq 📧 beckettbrunch2020@gmail.com

The #BeckettBrunch is coming back to Dublin on 18 April 2026 at the Trinity Long Room Hub to celebrate the Samuel #Beckett’s European life and oeuvre. Join us for a Franco-German Brunch! Free event. Programme and tickets will be released soon. Follow our page: www.facebook.com/BeckettBrunch/.

Having January blues? Join us for the First Fortnight Festival at the Goethe Institut in Dublin on Thursday 15 January at 6.30 pm for an uplifting event on "Beckettian Spaces of Resilience." Registration at this link: firstfortnight.ie/.../becketti...

Company SJ delivers another deeply moving experience of the Irish lan(d)guage with #Beckett Sa Chreig: Guth Na mBan at @dublintheatrefest.bsky.social. This virtual “Walking the land” with Mná Na hÉireann is a journey through the grief and care of the everyday sublimated by cast, costume and camera.

Marina #Carr’s The Boy revives Ancient Greek tragic myths and characters for the present times. It redefines the tragic and the performance of #tragedy on the contemporary Irish stage. Masterfully directed, deftly performed, smartly designed. @abbeytheatre.bsky.social @dublintheatrefest.bsky.social

#Hamlet by Chela de Ferrari at @dublintheatrefest.bsky.social had me on the edge of my seat, sinking into it, clinging onto it and springing off it to disco on the stage. What a wonderful show and what wonderful artists! Hope it keeps touring: the world needs it.

#Whitewashing’s dramaturgy of interweaving demands to slow down, witness and feel histories of oppression, domination and destruction. The actors perform a strong corrective of history through black, ecofeminist poetry and choreography. Left with goosebumps. @dublintheatrefest.bsky.social

The @tlrhub.bsky.social is offering a time to reflect on the role of the #arts and #humanities on a #warming #planet as part of its Research Festival. Great to hear more acknowledgment of acts of slow violence, more methods for attunement and the reiteration of the power of storytelling.

The #Beckett Working Group of the International Federation for #Theatre #Research will meet at the next congress (Melbourne, 6–10 July 2026). 🎭 Theme: '"Nothing to be done": What Samuel Beckett Theatre Does and What We Do with It." 🗓️ Abstract submission deadline: 8 December 2026 📄 Full CFP ⬇️

Check out @tlrhub.bsky.social's excellent programme for the Arts & Humanities Research Festival kicking off on Monday 22 September at 10 am with a conversation between Nicholas Johnson and Gina Moxley about their exciting @dublintheatrefest.bsky.social show. All free, all welcome.

Fantastic interview of theatre director Yuta Hagiwara about his telephone play Breath <Message Dial ver.> after #Beckett's Breath. Interview led by @alshalanamjad.bsky.social & published on her blog dedicated to #Saudi and #world #literatures. 5atrah.wordpress.com/2025/07/24/b...

Between Solitude and Connection: Yuta Hagiwara on Theatre After Disaster

بين العزلة والاتصال: يوتا هاجيورا والمسرح بعد الكارثة Detail: Femmes a la source (1899) by Paul Sérusier In this conversation, Japanese theatre director Yuta Hagiwara opens up about what’s shaped h…

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Stimulating panel on #Performance and #Olfactory Becomings at #IFTR2025 with Julia Ostwald and @fredafiala.bsky.social from University of Arts Linz. Both scholars demonstrate how powerful the politics of smell is in shaping our socio-economic and intercultural relations.

Yuta Hagiwara, artistic director of Kamome Machine, is presenting the telephone performance “Breath <Message Dial ver.>” after #Beckett’s Breath at #IFTR2025. This is a unsettling and transformative encounter with modernism, self and other. Don’t miss it if you are at @unicologne.bsky.social!

Great first day at #IFTR2025 with the #Beckett Working Group, reflecting on Beckett’s Grey Carnival. Looking forward to the rest of the week at @unicologne.bsky.social.

It's publication day for Samuel #Beckett and #Ecology! Immense gratitude to all colleagues who collaborated on this project over the past years, as well as friends, families & ecosystems who sustained the development of this work. @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social @tlrhub.bsky.social #researchmatters

Samuel Beckett and Ecology

This is the first full-length book to investigate Samuel Beckett's work through contemporary ecological thinking, offering a wide range of artistic and scholarl…

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@mmrovlje.bsky.social from @universityofleeds.bsky.social presents an insightful paper on Rosa #Luxemburg to reframe #FailingBetter both as a crushing lived reality and a potent political model of revolution and collective action. #FailWorse Symposium @tlrhub.bsky.social

Nathaniel Coleman from @newcastleuni.bsky.social introduces his research on #failure as a different kind of success in #Architecture #pedagogy in the studio. He argues that recoding desire for the new liberates creative desire for fulfilment. #FailWorse Symposium @tlrhub.bsky.social

Excellent and important talk by Jonathan Heron at the #FailWorse Symposium taking place at the @tlrhub.bsky.social: they reflect on how #students enter and exit universities using footages from the screen adaptation of Sally Rooney’s #NormalPeople as a prompt to engage with real experiences.

Full house at the Hub for @evepatt.bsky.social’s farewell coffee morning as Director of the @tlrhub.bsky.social. Go raibh míle maith agat, Eve, for fostering #arts and #humanities research with such diligence and dedication through the pandemic, as well as many other challenges & more joyful times.

Fantastic day at the @ria.ie, learning about intersectional and interdisciplinary #ecological practices and reflecting on what the #Arts and #Humanities do and can do. Many thanks to all organisers, particularly @pflonergan.bsky.social, and all speakers!

I had a great time at the online roundtable "Reading Bodies & #Embodied #Readings in #Modernist Prose and Poetry." Much gratitude to all organisers, particularly to Bowen Wang, for inviting me to present at this event. It was a good opportunity to think again about #Stimmung in #Beckett's novels.

Thank you to Sarah Alyn Stacey for inviting me to deliver the inaugural annual #Beckett lecture of the French Department at @tcddublin.bsky.social, and many thanks to all attendees for their presence and for an engaging discussion time. It was a joy to discuss Beckett's #French #creative #ecology.

Celebrating my first co-authored papers published in the Journal of #Beckett Studies (34.1)! Many thanks to Prof. Corinna Salvadori Lonergan, Dr. Nicholas Johnson & the editors for co-creating the article on Beckett's #BrownCanon & the theatre review of #GareStLazareIreland's Shades Through a Shade.

Edinburgh University Press Journals - Table of Contents - jobs: Vol 34, No 1

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Happy Birthday Michael D Higgins President, Poet, Leader. A man with a deep understanding of the arts and its role in society. Photo taken on Aran Islands at the Abbey Theatre production of Laethanta Shona in July 2021.

Deadline reminder for the special issue of Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui on THE TRAGIC. 🗓 Submission of abstracts in French and in English welcome until 30th April 📩 sbwg.iftr@gmail.com 📌 CfP available at iftr.org/working-grou... (see "Current Projects" section)

💫FIRST LOOK💫 The Abbey Theatre’s first ever production of Mary Manning’s Youth’s the Season -? is now on until May 3 ⭐ 🎟️ Tickets for this dazzling tragicomedy are available from €15: www.abbeytheatre.ie/whats-on/you... 📸 Ros Kavanagh

Excited to say that the programme note I wrote for KING LEAR (currently @gatetheatredublin.bsky.social) has been re-printed for RTE Culture. Do take a look: I discuss the nature of tragedy, whether or not Lear is TOO sad, and how endings aren't foregone conclusions. www.rte.ie/culture/2025...

The promised land? King Lear and the shape of tragedy

Dr. Miranda Fay Thomas explores the history behind William Shakespeare's masterpiece King Lear, currently playing at Dublin's Gate Theatre.

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💫ONE WEEK TO GO💫 The countdown is officially on at the Abbey Theatre as we prepare for Youth's the Season - ? to return to the stage next week, nearly 100 years since it was first performed at the Gate Theatre 🎭

“Our audiences will witness real newness, a true freshness of ideas and expression” - Introducing our artistic programme for 2025. 🔗https://www.abbeytheatre.ie/2025-national-theatre-of-stories/ #NationalTheatreOfStories (1/5)

Amidst all the chaos, spring turns @tcddublin.bsky.social campus into a serene oasis. The sense of continuity and rebirth is comforting.