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Waiting for Godot

Waiting for Godot

2 Apr 2009

CLASSIC The prospect of Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen sharing a stage as the leads in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot is both thrilling and slightly intimidating. The two thesps have known each other since the mid-1970s when they were members…

Beckett double bill to be staged at The Citz

Beckett double bill to be staged at The Citz

Director Dominic Hill discusses his productions of Krapp's Last Tape and Footfalls

15 May 2012

Following on from the success of his productions of Harold Pinter’s Betrayal and Shakespeare’s King Lear, Dominic Hill concludes his inaugural season at Glasgow’s Citizens Theatre with a double bill of short plays by the great, Irish dramatist Samuel…

Samuel Beckett's 'The End' to be adapted by Gare St Lazare

Samuel Beckett's 'The End' to be adapted by Gare St Lazare

Conor Lovett and Judy Hegarty Lovett adapt absurdist short story

1 Feb 2012

A nameless man, ejected from an anonymous institution, lost in a city. ‘The End’, a short story written by Samuel Beckett in 1954, is one of Gare St Lazare’s favourite pieces of the Irish absurdist’s work. They are well placed to have a preference…

The Beckett Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable

The Beckett Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable

The Gare St Lazare Players perform trilogy as 3-hour solo performance

14 Jan 2011

Samuel Beckett may be better-known for iconic plays like Waiting for Godot and Endgame but Irish theatre outfit Gare St Lazare Players have proved over the last 14 years that his lesser-known prose works have as much to offer when performed on stage.

Krapp's Last Tape

Krapp’s Last Tape

14 Aug 2008

Beckett’s masterpiece of love, missed opportunities, old age and regret is regularly revived (including two productions at this year’s Fringe). The big selling point of this production is that it features Rick Cluchey (pictured), an actor who worked…

Alison Peebles

22 May 2007

Here’s something you may not know: Samuel Beckett is the only Nobel Prize winner to play first class cricket. This might only be of significance to a quiz master, but for the following story, possibly apocryphal, yet terribly plausible, that’s…

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