BBC Four unveils landmark season of post-war British and Irish theatre

A landmark collection of theatre adaptations and accompanying documentaries, available in full on BBC iPlayer from 26 July ...

‘It’s a national reclamation’: the 12-year festival bringing Samuel Beckett back to Ireland

The playwright has long been considered one of the country’s most famous exports, but not an ‘Irish writer’. An ambitious new season of plays explores his complex relationship with his homeland – and ...
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Samuel Beckett's NOT I And ROCKABY to Be Directed and Performed By Jeni Jones in Hollywood

Jeni Jones is set to direct and star in a new incarnation of Samuel Beckett's "Not I" and "Rockaby" to be performed on a double bill in the heart of Hollywood at The Broadwater Black Box Theatre.
Washington City Paper

On Beckett, Not Beckett, Just Beckett: How Samuel Beckett Is Speaking to D.C.

Bill Irwin, On Beckett at the Irish Repertory Theatre. Photo credit: CraigSchwartz “I used to go in, do six minutes of [short prose from] Texts for Nothing, and then ask students what they made of ...
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Beckett's 'Not I' at the BrickBox — no escaping the inner scream

All the audience sees on stage in Samuel Beckett's short play "Not I" is a disembodied Mouth suspended about eight feet high to the right of the stage. Mouth, a woman, is telling stories in a fast ...
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'Dance First': Samuel Beckett biopic portrays the man, not the myth

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gabriel Byrne stars as Samuel Beckett in a biopic that itself is not especially Beckettian, but that boldly oscillates between ...
Los Angeles Times

In ‘Dance First,’ a biopic of Samuel Beckett, Gabriel Byrne portrays the man, not the myth

It would be hard to imagine a genre more antithetical to the modernist sensibility of Samuel Beckett than the biopic. The Irish writer who relocated to Paris, found inspiration in the French language ...