Beckett at Reading

Acclaimed theatre director Walter D. Asmus visited Minghella Studies to talk about his collaborations with #SamuelBeckett at the 35th Beckett International Foundation research seminar

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Please book in advance at the link in previous email.

Speakers for the BIF seminar on 1 Nov: Ros Maprayil: landscapes in Godot
Mark Taylor-Batty: Blin, Beckett and Godot
Trish McTighe and Kathryn White: ‘Godot at the Happy Days Enniskillen Beckett Festival’
Walter Asmus in conversation with Matthew McFrederick followed by audience Q&A.

The 2025 Beckett International Foundation seminar on 1 Nov at university of Reading is celebrating 70 years of Waiting for Godot with director Walter Asmus who worked closely with Beckett on several productions - more info to follow and you can book here: www.store.reading.ac.uk/conferences-...

New research 📖

'Glancing at Dramatists' Dialogue: From Shakespeare to Suzan-Lori Parks' by the late Ruby Cohn, edited by Hannah Simpson & Daniela Caselli, examines English-language dramatic dialogue, tracing verbal invention across four centuries.

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Reading in Marseille on Wednesday and talking with Mary Fitzgerald - please come!

reminder: if you like cursed images, trash essays, Wiki aesthetic categories, shrimp Jesus & AI slop, book your ticket for the launch of Amateurs! How We Made Internet Culture and Why it Matters ( @versobooks.bsky.social ) at @burleyfisher.bsky.social with @nrolah.bsky.social, tues sept 23rd!

Last clause in Mark E Smith voice

"Can I read you some of my poetry?"

Tonight! Hope to see you there.

Paul Durcan wrote this, but I feel he had the soul of a hare as well

Installment 2/2 now on @beckettreading.bsky.social blog ~ read for Beckett & healings & The Substance (2024) & bananas (research.reading.ac.uk/beckett/bein...) ❤️‍🔥¡

A wonderful time in NYC at Irish Rep for the US leg of the #NotBeckett festival - 5 new plays in conversation w Beckett by women and non binary writers ❤️

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Mark Haddon and Megan Nolan to judge the Goldsmiths Prize 2025 Simon Okotie and Amy Sackville complete the panel for this year’s award for “fiction at its most novel”.

Mark Haddon and Megan Nolan to judge the Goldsmiths Prize 2025

Simon Okotie and Amy Sackville complete the panel for this year’s award for “fiction at its most novel”.

🖊️ Zuzanna Lachendro

What’s Sam got to do with psychogeography? - The Samuel Beckett Research Centre What’s Sam got to do with psychogeography? Alexander Trocchi and Samuel Beckett from Paris 5, 6 & 7e to Reading Amy Grandvoinet AHRC-funded PhD student An aeon article with web-address...Read More >

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Thanks to the wonderful Amy Grandvoinet for this excellent, entertaining essay on a fascinating and little-discussed subject.

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I am very excited that #NotBeckett will have its international premiere in NYC @IrishRep in February - pls spread the word and pls come! irishrep.org/show/2024-20...

Hello everyone! Please help me get this out? Registration is open for the Eliot Summer program at Oxford, 5-13 July 2025. Scholarships and partial week tuition available. See you there? Send your students. Happy to support them!

University of Reading Samuel Beckett Creative Fellows: Video recording of a reading and Q & A by Claire-Louise Bennett and Simon Okotie. March 2024.

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New Biography of Barbara Bray The eagerly awaited biography of Barbara Bray has just been released by publishers Routledge. Titled Barbara Bray, A Woman of Letters: Translator, Radio Producer, Scriptwriter, Critic, and Theatre …

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It’s such a relief.

Excellent

Thanks David, C.

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