Ben Whishaw, Samuel Beckett
Waiting for Godot review: Ben Whishaw brings Paddington-esque wistfulness to Samuel Beckett’s tragicomedy
Whishaw and Lucian Msamati do well to fill the shoes of Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart who last starred in the West End production 15 years ago
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Waiting for Godot review: Ben Whishaw finds joy in Samuel Beckett’s wondrous misery
Waiting for Godot has been called ‘the play of the century,’ but that accolade doesn’t make staging Samuel Beckett’s most significant piece easy. The Irish playwright, who died in 1989, banned tampering with the set or script in adaptations.
Waiting for owners: former Chelsea home of Samuel Beckett for sale for £5.5m
Paultons Square has been home to two Nobel Prize winners: dramatist Samuel Beckett, who lived there in 1934, and physicist Patrick Blackett from 1953 to 1969
Five stars for a stunning Waiting for Godot with Ben Whishaw and Lucian Msamati — theatre review
James Macdonald captures the play’s emotional depth and its political power at London’s Theatre Royal Haymarket
If you think you don’t like Waiting for Godot, Ben Whishaw will prove you wrong
It is thrilling to have the opportunity to study this incomparable and mercurial actor live once again, after the underwhelming 'Bluets'
Waiting for Godot at Theatre Royal Haymarket review: the best staging of this challenging classic I’ve ever seen
Written in the late Forties, premiered in Paris in 1953 and London in 1955 (where it won Most Controversial Play at the first ever Evening Standard Theatre Awards), Godot established Beckett as a major writer and a stickler for the sanctity of his text and stage directions.
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Samuel Beckett’s to host 10th annual Celtic Festival in Shirlington
Late September marks the halfway point to St. Patrick's Day, and in Shirlington, it also means the return of the neighborhood ...
Walking in Samuel Beckett’s footsteps: In some mysterious way, the landscape captures the soul of the artist
As Belaqua observes in Love and Lethe in More Pricks Than Kicks: ...
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Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter Reunite for Broadway Debut in ‘Waiting for Godot’: A Fresh Take on Beckett’s Classic
In an exciting development for theater enthusiasts, Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter are set to take the Broadway stage together ...
End of an era: After 61 years, OCP to hold final performance Oct. 15
In an auditorium at Ogdensburg City Hall in 1963, the Ogdensburg Community Players held their first production, a performance of Samuel Beckett's one-act play called "Endgame." Sixty-one years later, ...
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Waiting for Godot
The curtain rises on a barren landscape with a single tree, leafless. Rae Smith’s setting, a chopped-off piece of tree, ...
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Samuel Beckett and binaural sound
Drama on 3 is delving into the world of Samuel Beckett using the playwright’s avant-garde writing for an immersive drama recording using binaural sound. Sir Ian McKellen, Stephen Rea and a host ...
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Samuel Beckett and the Language of Subjectivity
214. Çameli, Muhammed Metin 2024. Beckett’s Not I as a Dramatic Rendition of Kristeva’s Notion of the Semiotic Chora. Cankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol. 18, Issue. 1, ...