Never but the one matter. The dead and gone. The dying and the going. From the word go A Piece of Monologue is a short play by Samuel Beckett written between 1977 and 1979 specifically for the American actor David Warrilow. It consists of five pages of text in the Faber Collected Shorter Plays edition […]
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A Piece of Monologue by Samuel Beckett (1980)
Posted by Simon on February 1, 2021
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Company by Samuel Beckett (1980)
To one on his back in the dark a voice tells of a past. For someone whose life’s work is about loss, abandonment, futility, decay, entropy, collapse and failure, Beckett not only wrote a devil of a lot of works, but carried on writing them into deep old age. He was 74 when he published Company, […]
Posted by Simon on January 29, 2021
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… but the clouds… by Samuel Beckett (1977)
… but the clouds… is a short play by Samuel Beckett written expressly for television. It was written in English (worth mentioning because Beckett wrote many of his works in French first, then translated them into English) from October to November 1976, first televised on BBC 2 on 17 April 1977, and published by Faber […]
Posted by Simon on January 27, 2021
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Ghost Trio by Samuel Beckett (1976)
Ghost Trio is a short television play by Samuel Beckett, which lasts about twenty minutes. Beckett wrote it in English in 1975 and it was first televised on BBC 2 on 17 April 1977. Ghost Trio has fantastically detailed stage directions specifying the exact layout of the room the action is set in and the […]
Posted by Simon on January 25, 2021
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Footfalls by Samuel Beckett (1976)
Footfalls is a short play by Samuel Beckett. Although it consists of barely five pages of text, it lasts a good 25 minutes in performance because of the very frequent use of long, pregnant pauses and its division into four parts separated by intermissions when the lights go completely dark, while the audience hears the […]
Posted by Simon on January 22, 2021
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That Time by Samuel Beckett (1975)
A man is onstage standing high up and unnaturally still. Only his head is lit by a spotlight, a mature face with long flowing white hair. The audience hears a voice coming from somewhere, presumably his voice, although his lips don’t move, and after a minute or so the tone of the voice changes, then […]
Posted by Simon on January 20, 2021
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Not I by Samuel Beckett (1972)
…. grabbing at the straw… straining to hear… the odd word… make some sense of it… whole body like gone… just the mouth… like maddened… and can’t stop… no stopping it… something she – … something she had to – … what?… who?… no!… she!… Remember how episodes of the American sitcom Friends were named ‘The […]
Posted by Simon on January 13, 2021
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Books & Boots 