Samuel Beckett
Who dares clown around with Waiting for Godot? | Letters
Letters: Sarah-Jane Watkinson, Brendan Mulcahy and Jude Emmet reply to a letter that called for adding circus stunts to Samuel Beckett’s play
09, Feb, 2024 @6:04 PM
Waiting for Godot to send in more clowns | Brief letters
Brief letters: Circussy classics | Secondhand clothes | Curtain calls | Cold showers
04, Feb, 2024 @5:20 PM
Krapp’s Last Tape review – Stephen Rea is hauntingly good in Beckett’s masterpiece
There isn’t a hint of sentimentality in Vicky Featherstone’s delicately calibrated production of Samuel Beckett’s monologue about mortality
Helen Meany
19, Jan, 2024 @12:17 PM
Ben Whishaw and Lucian Msamati to star in West End production of Waiting for Godot
Actors to make ‘merry mischief’ in Samuel Beckett’s play at Theatre Royal Haymarket in September
Chris Wiegand
07, Dec, 2023 @10:44 AM
Dance First review – the two faces of Samuel Beckett with Gabriel Byrne
Byrne is a good fit as the conflicted writer, but James Marsh’s crisp biographical film feels at odds with the passion of Beckett’s work
Wendy Ide
05, Nov, 2023 @12:30 PM
Making your mind up: the best descriptions of indecision in literature
The last word, our series about emotions and states of mind in books, focuses on depictions of dithering this month, from Hamlet to the ‘maybe-boyfriend’ of Anna Burns’s Milkman
Sophie Ratcliffe
02, Nov, 2023 @1:43 PM
Dance First review – Samuel Beckett’s life given the high gloss Hollywood treatment
Vivid portrait of the great playwright of inertia points up the contrast with his real-life romantic entanglements and daring work for the French resistance
Peter Bradshaw
01, Nov, 2023 @1:00 PM
The song that lifted the veil of dementia | Brief letters
Brief letters: Music and dementia | NHS no-show fines | Baseball cap etiquette | Imbeciles at No 10 | Keep it to yourself
24, Sep, 2023 @4:13 PM
‘A lot of biopics depend on likeness – this is braver’: Gabriel Byrne on playing Samuel Beckett
The actor talks about his new movie Dance First, in which he plays the Irish dramatist, the time he shared a drink with Richard Burton and why he had to leave Los Angeles
Claire Armitstead
22, Sep, 2023 @4:00 AM
The Guardian view on class in Britain: the government doesn’t want to talk about it | Editorial
Editorial: Social mobility is being redefined because the Conservatives need election-ready political narratives
Editorial
14, Sep, 2023 @5:56 PM
Prom 43: Endgame review – music brings compassion to Beckett’s austere drama
For its UK premiere, György Kurtág’s opera faced a challenge summoning the play’s claustrophobia in this venue, but performances and players were superb
Tim Ashley
19, Aug, 2023 @9:06 AM
Happy Days review – Siobhán McSweeney brings masterful touch to Beckett’s masterpiece
The Derry Girls star adds wonderfully subtle clowning and a beguiling naturalism to the absurd classic about a woman quite literally stuck in marital stasis
Arifa Akbar
02, Jul, 2023 @11:53 AM
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