So on unknowing and no end in sight. ‘Still’ was one of Samuel Beckett’s keywords, like ‘go’ and ‘on’ and ‘white’ and ‘dark’. All are present in Beckett’s short final prose piece, Stirrings Still. He wrote it between 1986 and 1989 at the request of his old friend and American publisher, Barney Rosset. It was […]
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What Where by Samuel Beckett (1983)
Time passes. That is all. Make sense who may. What Where is Samuel Beckett’s last play. Like many of his later works it was written for a commission, in this case for the 1983 Autumn Festival in Graz, Austria. Beckett wrote it between February and March 1983, initially in French as Quoi où, then translated […]
Posted by Simon on February 19, 2021
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Worstward Ho by Samuel Beckett (1983)
Try again. Fail again. Fail better. Worstward Ho is a short piece of prose published by Samuel Beckett towards the end of his life. The title is a parody of the adventure novel Westward Ho! by Victorian novelist, Charles Kingsley, which itself is a reference to the Elizabethan play Westward Ho! by Thomas Dekker and […]
Posted by Simon on February 15, 2021
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Catastrophe by Samuel Beckett (1982)
Catastrophe is a very short play by Samuel Beckett, written in French in 1982 at the invitation of the Association Internationale de Défense des Artistes and first produced in the Avignon Festival on 21 July 1982. Unlike most of Beckett’s plays or works, which are notably apolitical and even asocial in their studiedly abstract, experimental […]
Posted by Simon on February 12, 2021
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Ohio Impromptu by Samuel Beckett (1981)
Nothing is left to tell. Ohio Impromptu is a very short play by Samuel Beckett. The Beckett on Film production of the entire play lasts ten minutes 30 seconds. Ohio Impromptu was written in English in 1980 as a favour to Beckett scholar S.E. Gontarski who had requested a piece to be performed at a […]
Posted by Simon on February 10, 2021
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Quad by Samuel Beckett (1981)
Quad is a very short television ‘play’ by Samuel Beckett, written and first produced and broadcast in 1981 – the production embedded in this blog post lasts just 13 minutes. When printed in 1984 it was described as a ‘piece for four players, light and percussion’ and has also been called a ‘ballet for four […]
Posted by Simon on February 5, 2021
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Rockaby by Samuel Beckett (1981)
Rockaby is a short play which Samuel Beckett wrote at the request of Daniel Labeille from the State University of New York, for a festival and symposium arranged to celebrate Beckett’s 75th birthday. In the printed text, one and a half pages of detailed description of the stage setup, the actor’s costume and position and […]
Posted by Simon on February 3, 2021
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Samuel Beckett timeline
A timeline of Samuel Beckett’s life and works with page references, where relevant, to James Knowlson’s 1996 biography of Beckett, Damned To Fame. 1906 13 April – Samuel Barclay Beckett born in ‘Cooldrinagh’, a house in Foxrock, a village south of Dublin (page 3), on Good Friday, the second child of William Beckett and May […]
Posted by Simon on February 28, 2021
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