The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Some work better than others. It's impossible to watch Rough for Theatre I, a two-hander featuring a pair of beggars - one lame, the other blind, both yoked together for eternity - without thinking of Beckett's most famous down-and-outs, Vladimir and Estragon. As if in reenactment of Waiting for Godot, this duo (Marcello Magni and Natour) squabble and talk longingly of tinned food and the elusive...
This is London (Free subscription) | yesterday
Beckett's uncompromising stage poetry is almost entirely wasted, replaced instead by a lot of offputtingly mannered acting in Fragments.
Atlantic Yards Report (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
This week AYR will look back at the 8/23/06 hearing on the Atlantic Yards Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS), drawing on the official transcript. There are more than a few places where the dialogue, at least as captured on the transcript, has echoes of absurdist playwright Samuel Beckett, notable for lines like “You must go on. I can't go on. I'll go on.” Anonymous voices inside...
Atlantic Yards Report (Free subscription) | yesterday
This week AYR will look back at the 8/23/06 hearing on the Atlantic Yards Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS), drawing on the official transcript. Yesterday I wrote how the August 23 hearing at times resembled an absurdist work by Samuel Beckett. But the end of the September 18 community forum devolved into a moment of pure farce, in which a not very well-informed young woman...
IndieLondon (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
Fragments , a Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord and Young Vic co-production, runs at the Young Vic until September 13, 2008. Roll your mouse over the left and right-hand sides of the image and then click to view more pictures. Kathryn Hunter, Marcello Magni and Khalifa Natour in Samuel Beckett's Fragments. Photo by ralphrapley/XMO4.com 1 of 3
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
... with windows and a garage but no door. However, it is the nobodies in the anonymous hotel room of Samuel Beckett's Worstward Ho intoning his mesmeric language like an incantation that are the most touching. These, along with other profound images and sounds in this slow-burning triumph, will seep into the memory for some time to come.
Junk for Code (Free subscription) | yesterday
... music, Norman Foster in architecture, Frank Stella in painting, Clement Greenberg in art theory, Samuel Beckett in literature, and the Pax Americana in politics. Modernist Office , originally uploaded by poodly . The dark side of modernism is the freeway, the brutal architecture and the bleak, windswept public spaces in our cities. The unintended consequences of the modernist ethos...
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | yesterday
... moments come in the final tableau, however. In a bedroom in a grand hotel, four businessmen sing Samuel Beckett's weirdly rhythmic Westward Ho, with all its surreal repetitions and nonsense format.The combination of music, texts and images provides a sensory overload, and while the addition of music and staging doesn't make the words any easier to understand, it opens them up to a...
Edinburgh Evening News (Free subscription) | yesterday
... moments come in the final tableau, however. In a bedroom in a grand hotel, four businessmen sing Samuel Beckett's weirdly rhythmic Westward Ho, with all its surreal repetitions and nonsense format.The combination of music, texts and images provides a sensory overload, and while the addition of music and staging doesn't make the words any easier to understand, it opens them up to a...
BLCKDGRD (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
... McCain, I Wouldn't Fuck You with Orson Welle's Dick , starring Jean-Paul Sartre, Eartha Kitt, and Samuel Beckett. Rustbelt points out the grading curve , but this question is, if the curve is crooked, why insist on playing exactly by the curve's rules? Photoshop of the day . Or is it this one ? Martin O'Malley, jetsam . Hey, why didn't I get a high school teacher like this ? Michael...
Shakespeare's Sister (Free subscription) | 08/24/2008
I'm just back in the US from four days and five plays at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ontario. Among the works we saw were plays by Lope de Vega, Eugene O'Neill, Samuel Beckett, and ... oh yeah, William Shakespeare. I have lost count of the number of times I've been to Stratford; I started going in 1970 and have been going practically every year since; it's one of...
Radio Netherlands English (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
... thoughts of a psychiatric patient and is clearly influenced by the Irish playwright and novelist Samuel Beckett. Baycili has also written a trilogy of plays under the collective title Reductio ad absurdum. Her journalistic work has appeared in Dutch newspapers and she writes an Internet column called 'Chicken and Egg without a Head.' Art of AgingSevtap Baycili's philosophical approach...
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 08/24/2008
... Classical Theatre of Harlem and Creative time, staged five free site-specific performances of Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot, in two New Orleanian neighborhoods destroyed by the flooding. The performances were part of the larger project which also consisted of a fund to help local rebuilding and reorganizing efforts, and a series of programs through the city. Chan will discuss...
