The Official Publication of the Samuel Beckett Society
The annual convention of the Modern Language Association will take place in January 2026 in Toronto. As ever, the Samuel Beckett Society will be represented at a guaranteed panel. This year's offering promises to be a particularly strong one as it throws light on an area of huge interest currently in Beckett Studies by providing... Continue Reading →
Directed by Vicky Featherstone Featuring Stephen Rea Sunday 4 May 2025 Review by Andy Wimbush For a play about an obsession with the retrospective, putting on a truly authentic production of Krapp’s Last Tape requires a surprising amount of forethought. In February this year, Samuel West announced that he had recorded the taped section of... Continue Reading →
Directed by Gavin Quinn (Pan Pan Theatre) Featuring Andrew Bennett (Voice), Daniel Reardon (Opener) Music by Jimmy Eadie Design by Aedín Cosgrove Tuesday 2 September 2025 Review by James Baxter ‘It is the month of May … for me’. The first line of Beckett’s 1961 radio play Cascando stumbles at the outset, tripping on problems... Continue Reading →
Interview by Annette Balaam Philip Robinson is a versatile and seasoned actor, writer and the creative director of the Living Room Theatre company. Touring mainly in the Southwest of England, he devised and performed The Washing Machine of Destiny with Luca Saunders, a musical supported by Arts Council England that embraced neurodiversity through joy and... Continue Reading →
Reviewed by James Martell As the chapters in this volume show, Beckett scholars are particularly adept at perceiving (listening and seeing, but also touching, smelling, and somewhat tasting) all the material metaphors and figures that build his oeuvre, from the primeval and infernal mud of How It Is to the scorching landscape in Happy Days... Continue Reading →
Review by Nadia Louar Translation as Poiesis: On Samuel Beckett and Translation In recent years, Beckett studies have decisively shifted toward a deeper engagement with the author’s translational practice—not only as a logistical or ancillary aspect of his oeuvre, but as an integral mode of his creative expression. The volume Samuel Beckett and Translation, edited... Continue Reading →
President's AddressWelcome From Our Own Correspondent Images of Interruption: ‘Worstward Ho’ and the Saudi Reader. By Amjad AlShalan LongreadsGodot Goes Hollywood, Geffen Playhouse, Los Angeles. By Patrick BixbyPerforming Beckett for incarcerated women: Waiting for Godot at FCI Victorville, 10 December 2024. By Katherine Weiss Interview 'It's just your mouth': Talking Rockaby and Not I with Jeni... Continue Reading →
Directed by Judy Hegarty Lovett Featuring: Rainn Wilson (Vladimir), Aasif Mandvi (Estragon), Conor Lovett (Pozzo), Adam Stein (Lucky), Lincoln Bonilla/Jack McSherry (Boy) 3 November 2024 Review by Patrick Bixby Los Angeles (my hometown, I must confess) may have a reputation for superficiality, crass commercialism, and cloying celebrity worship, not least because the Hollywood entertainment industry often seems to... Continue Reading →
Editor: Feargal Whelan Feargal Whelan is a Visiting Research Fellow and occasional lecturer at Trinity College Dublin. He has published and presented widely on the works of Samuel Beckett and on twentieth century Irish drama. He collaborates regularly with Mouth on Fire theatre company on productions, and has also scripted and contributed to a number... Continue Reading →
It’s been barely six months since I took over as president of the Samuel Beckett Society, but a rich and exciting time already. I want to start by thanking outgoing president Patrick Bixby for leaving the Society in such rude health, with a new sense of purpose and clarity of role, building on the expansion... Continue Reading →
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