Theatre review: Beckett Biennale including 'Not I' from Arts Over Borders at Minghella Studios www.britishtheatreguide.info/reviews/beck...

Theatre review: Beckett Biennale including 'Not I' from Arts Over Borders at Minghella Studios

Theatre review of Beckett Biennale including 'Not I' (Luciano Berio, Helen Oyeyemi, Rupert Thomson, Eimear McBride, Mark Nixon and Samuel Beckett) from Arts Over Borders at Minghella Studios - reviewe...

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Hear more from Phil Jones in 'Reading Samuel Johnson', which explores how writers from James Boswell to Samuel Beckett read, interpreted, and responded to Johnson. 📖👇 www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

Reading Samuel Johnson | Home

Ebook available to libraries as part of

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The History of Literature Podcast@holpod.bsky.social · last wk.

"Nothing is more unjust, however common, than to charge with hypocrisy him that expresses zeal for those virtues which he neglects to practise." – Samuel Johnson #botd For more about Johnson's life and work, listen to this episode from the archives! #books #literature @livunipress.bsky.social

www.acla.org/seminar/8360... two days for the deadline to submit to our ACLA virtual panel on "Transautography: self-writing, autotheory, and surviving (in) the academy" Come join us explore new ways to survive and thrive through this crisis of academic institutions.

Beckett’s German diaries show him to be ‘an extraordinarily sensitive seismographer of the Nazification of everyday life’, writes Durs Grünbein in this week’s TLS. www.the-tls.com/lives/diarie...

Cultural catastrophe

Beckett’s ‘German Journey’ in the Nazi period

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Theatre and film director Anthony Page has died aged 90 👇

‘Pioneering’ director Anthony Page dies aged 90

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#BreakALeg to everyone at Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days which begins performances tonight at Pitlochry Festival Theatre theatreweekly.com/siobhan-redm...

Siobhán Redmond and Forbes Masson announced for Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s Happy Days - Theatre Weekly

Pitlochry Festival Theatre has announced the full cast for its forthcoming production of Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days

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The Abbey Theatre Archives 🎭 @abbeytheatre.bsky.social The Abbey Theatre marks 60 years in its current building, with archivist Mairéad Delaney leading a special presentation tracing the theatre's remarkable history from its founding to today. culturenight.ie/event/the-ab...

Just arrived:

I saw this unusual, hybrid production of Krapp's Last Tape recently. www.kilkennyarts.ie/festival/pro...

The Last Tape | Kilkenny Arts Festival | 6-16 August 2026

Rearranged by Andrew Synnott Text/libretto by Samuel Beckett The Last Tape is Marcel Mihalovici’s operatic collaboration with Samuel Beckett. Internationally acclaimed Irish theatre company Gare St1

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On release day, a first review of "Stirrings Still" from Tyran Grillo: ecmreviews.com/2026/09/03/s...

Samuel Beckett: Stirrings Still (ECM New Series 2801)

Samuel BeckettTrevor BačaStirrings Still Paul Griffiths narratorJACK QuartetChristopher Otto violinAustin Wulliman violinJohn Pickford Richards violaJay Campbell violoncell…

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Cover Reveal for "Love, Life and Death: John Minihan" A new retrospective of John Minhan's photos out this September. Join John and the book's editors for a special launch event: 🗓️5pm, 20 September 🧭YOLC, @liverpooluni.bsky.social FREE: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1996979506... #booksky #photography

New blog post! ‘The Anthem Beckett Studies Reader: Re-viewing Beckett (2026)’ by S. E. Gontarski, author of ‘The Anthem Beckett Studies Reader’. Find out more ➡️ tinyurl.com/2334jmns #FSU #SamuelBeckett #BeckettStudies #Modernism #LiteraryStudies #newreads #AnthemPress

Theatre news: Friel's Faith Healer first full production by Belfast's Lyric Theatre Two-time Olivier Award-winner Conleth Hill is to star in Friel’s masterpiece. www.britishtheatreguide.info/news/brian-f...

Theatre news: Friel's Faith Healer first full production by Belfast's Lyric Theatre

Two-time Olivier Award-winner Conleth Hill is to star in Friel’s masterpiece.

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Sam #Beckett discussing the German tv version of What Where - wonderfully rare glimpse

Seán Costello@seanjcostello.bsky.social · last mo.

“The work . . . consisted in getting rid of every superfluity, more and more, until we really got it down to the bare bones.”—A rare glimpse of Samuel Beckett talking about his craft (thanks @davidcollard.bsky.social)

Bilingual edition of Samuel Beckett’s German Diaries, published in Germany for the first time next week

The Last Tape: Beckett foray into opera comes to Kilkenny in hybrid form

The Last Tape: Beckett foray into opera comes to Kilkenny in hybrid form

Mark Padmore sings the role of Krapp and Conor Lovett speaks it in this Gare St Lazare Ireland adaptation, directed by Judy Hegarty Lovett

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🎭Beckett: Lieben🎭 As part of our Beckett Festival we will be hosting two FREE screenings @liveveryplay.bsky.social: 🎥"If I Fall, Don’t Pick Me Up" by Declan Clarke 12 noon, 18 September everymanplayhouse.com/event/becket... 🎥"Beckett Shorts" 2pm, 19 September everymanplayhouse.com/event/becket...

Beckett: Lieben 2026 - Film Screening: If I Fall, Don't Pick Me Up - Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse Theatres

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“Just enough still to joy. Joy! Just enough still to joy that only they.”

David Collard@davidcollard.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A five-part series on Samuel Beckett just uploaded on the Radio France website (in French, obvs): www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

Still places available for the launch of this wonderful book on Beckett, Performance and the miming body by Jonny McAllister

Coming soon... ecmrecords.com/product/samu...

This talk is part of the "Discussion" strand of our Beckett Festival this September, please see www.eventbrite.com/cc/beckett-l... for other Beckett talks. For the full programme of theatre, music, visual art, photography, film, dance as well as discussion, please go to www.liverpool.ac.uk/beckett

Beckett: Lieben 2026

Beckett: Lieben 2026 explores Beckett's fascination with German expressionism, which he first encountered through his relationship with the Sinclair family in Kassel in the 1930s. Please go to www.liv...

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Beckett: Lieben 2026 🗣️Samuel Beckett and German Expressionism: An Abiding Love Artist / architect Richard Pierce on Beckett’s discovery of German Expressionism 🗓️ 1pm, 20 September 2026 🧭Yoko Ono Lennon Centre, @liverpooluni.bsky.social FREE registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1996979506...

Beckett: Lieben - Richard Pierce: Samuel Beckett and German Expressionism

Artist / architect Richard Pierce presents a visual account of Samuel Beckett’s discovery of, and reaction to, German Expressionism

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📚Book Launch of "Love, Life and Death: John Minihan in His Own Words" Irish Photographer John Minihan in conversation with the editors of his new book 🗓️ 5pm, 20 September 2026 🧭Yoko Ono Lennon Centre, @liverpooluni.bsky.social FREE registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1996799024...

Beckett: Lieben - Book Launch - Love, Life and Death: John Minihan

Irish photographer John Minihan in conversation with the editors of his new book looking at his career documenting everyday life and stars.

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Step into the world of Samuel Beckett at Beckett: Lieben 2026 a four-day festival exploring the playwright's fascination with German Expressionism through theatre, music, visual art, film and more. 📍 Liverpool 📅 17-20 September 2026 View the programme & book tickets: www.liverpool.ac.uk/beckett

Pitlochry Festival Theatre has announced the full cast for its forthcoming production of Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days theatreweekly.com/siobhan-redm...

Siobhán Redmond and Forbes Masson announced for Pitlochry Festival Theatre’s Happy Days - Theatre Weekly

Pitlochry Festival Theatre has announced the full cast for its forthcoming production of Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days

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Theatre news: Beckett festival returns to Liverpool Actor and director Adrian Dunbar and musician Nick Roth will bring Beckett: Lieben 2026, an international festival celebrating the works of Samuel Beckett, to Liverpool. www.britishtheatreguide.info/news/beckett...

A thrill to see Billie Whitelaw’s 1977 television performance of Not I, which I have been writing about pretty consistently since 2015, on a 2026 TV schedule!

And the third thing in my calendar for today is of course *this*, BBC4 tonight at 10pm. I always keep my appointment, but especially where Sam is concerned ❤️

Corrinne F@traviata.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Now THIS is something to put in your diary. Next Sunday 26 July at 10pm on BBC4: they’re screening Billie Whitelaw’s astounding performance in Samuel Beckett’s Not I. Absolutely not to be missed. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Now THIS is something to put in your diary. Next Sunday 26 July at 10pm on BBC4: they’re screening Billie Whitelaw’s astounding performance in Samuel Beckett’s Not I. Absolutely not to be missed. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Two - Not I

Billie Whitelaw stars as a mouth suspended in space in Samuel Beckett's play.

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Rencontre autour de Samuel Beckett Le 10/11/2026 Dans le cadre du centenaire de la première visite de Samuel Beckett en Touraine, rencontre avec des spécialistes de l'auteur irlandais. https://www.tours.fr/evenements/rencontre-autour-de-samuel-beckett/ #VilleDeTours #Tours