The Official Publication of the Samuel Beckett Society
Directed and designed by Gary Oldman, by arrangement with Doug Urbanski Featuring Gary Oldman (Krapp) Wednesday 23 April 2025 Review by Emilie Morin Will April 2025 be remembered as Krapp month? In fact, have we ever seen as many high-profile productions of the same Beckett play competing for attention in a single month? On 14... Continue Reading →
Directed by Jamie Lloyd Featuring Keanu Reeves (Estragon), Alex Winter (Vladimir), Michael Patrick Thornton (Lucky), Brandon J. Dirden (Pozzo), Eric Williams/Zaynn Arora (Boy) Friday 26 September 2025 Endgame, Irish Arts Center, New York Directed by Garry Hynes Featuring Bosco Hogan (Nagg), Aaron Monaghan (Clov), Marie Mullen (Nell), Rory Nolan (Hamm) Saturday 24 October 2025 Reviews... Continue Reading →
Directed by Sarah Jane Scaife Featuring: David Rawle (Desmond), Sadhbh Malin (Deirdre), Ciara Berkeley (Toots), Kerill Kelly (Terence Killigrew), Lórcan Strain (Egosmith), Molly Hanly (Connie), Jack Meade (Gerald), Youssef Quinn (Harry), Valerie O'Connor (Mrs Millington), Mazzy Ronaldson (Pearl/Mary), Eoin Fullston (Willie) Tuesday 8 April 2025 Review by Feargal Whelan I was delighted and strangely relieved... Continue Reading →
Translated, performed and directed by Pablo Finamore Lighting design by Leandra Rodríguez Sound design by Nicolás Diab Sunday 11 May 2025 Review by Alicia Nudler In Argentina, where almost all of Beckett’s plays and several of his non-dramatic texts have already been performed, it is the first time this novella has been adapted for the... Continue Reading →
Director Robynn Rodriguez Featuring Tasso Feldman (Pozzo), Jonathan Haugen (Lucky), Preston Mead (Boy), Ray Porter (Estragon), and Derrick Lee Weeden (Vladimir) 16 October 2025 Review by Geoff Ridden In a valley full of theatre companies, all of which are dwarfed by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF), the Rogue Theater Company (RTC) is exceptional. Established by... 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 →
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 →
Directed by Judy Hegarty Lovett Performed by Natasha Everitt, Simon Jermyn, Conor Lovett, Lux Hegarty Lovett, Trey Lyford, Seán Mac Erlaine and Julia Spanu 28 September 2024 Review by James Baxter In the 1929 essay ‘Dante…Bruno.Vico..Joyce,’ Samuel Beckett invokes a vision of purgatory – quite separate from the sombre eminence of his most famous dramatic images... Continue Reading →
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