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Take a look at our new website: research.reading.ac.uk/staging-becket… As well as the database, it contains interviews, essays, learning materials, and blogs. #stagingbeckett

Staging Beckett has moved over to Bluesky @stagingbeckett.bsky.social please come join us there and share your news about Beckett theatre stuff especially upcoming productions!

🎉 Samuel Beckett and Artists’ Cinema Beckett’s work has inspired many contemporary visual artists. Join us on 23 June to see rarely screened work by several artists, including Stan Douglas’ ‘Vidéo’ and Duncan Campbell’s ‘O Joan No’. Register now: research.reading.ac.uk/beckett/screen…

🎉Screenings will be followed by a roundtable discussion and the launch of 'Samuel Beckett's Afterlives', the recent collection of essays edited by Jonathan Bignell, Anna McMullan and Pim Verhulst.

Be sure to check out the most recent issue of SBT/A which is edited by our wonderful PGRs Zoë Tweed and @RMaprayil. This excellent issue includes articles from Sarah Jane Scaife @companysjdublin, @Celia_GD, @hsimpson100, @ChloeDuane and @DunlaithBird. brill.com/view/journals/…

So pleased to have my first journal article, "Work-in-Progress: Collaborative Composing and Spectral Materiality in the 1990 Television Version of Samuel Beckett’s Footfalls" published. Thank you so much @RMaprayil and Zoe Tweed brill.com/view/journals/…

An excellent issue - some of the brilliant essays can be downloaded for free here (including Hannah's!): brill.com/view/journals/… #SamuelBeckett #StagingB

Final program of "Beckett in Central Europe. Staging and Reception beyond Censorship", in one month, at Charles University, Prague. Thanks for the invitation. @beckett_letters @beckettcentre @StagingB beckettineurope.wordpress.com

Anthony Minghella died OTD in 2008. James Knowlson wrote an obit focusing on his love of Beckett: 'There was a time for five years,' he said, 'when I read Beckett almost on a daily basis. The sense of language and poetry in his writing has been the single biggest influence on me'

Upcoming Beckett Conference and Seminar in Gdansk, Poland: Call for Papers – The Samuel Beckett Society 今年5月18−20日 応募は3月15日までに samuelbeckettsociety.org/2023/02/24/upc…

Upcoming Beckett Conference and Seminar in Gdansk, Poland: Call for Papers samuelbeckettsociety.org/2023/02/24/upc…

Alain Françon directs Godot at La Scala Paris till 8 April then tour: sceneweb.fr/alain-francon-…

Delighted that my book "Digital Scenography" was shortlisted for the Best Publication Award at the Prague Quadrennial: pq.cz/pq-2023-info/p…

My own page @beckettcentre! buff.ly/3XW50qw

Our new edited collection, Contemporary Performance Lighting: Experience, Creativity and Meaning, was published yesterday by @MethuenDrama @BloomsburyBooks. You can order your copy (and one for your library!) at bloomsbury.com/uk/contemporar… -- just £17.49 in paperback!

TOMORROW is the deadline for abstracts for this year's ISTR conference in Galway (@uniofgalway). Details below:

Join us this Friday, 3 March, from 6pm for First Fridays! The museum will be open late, until 9pm, with free admission and a range of programmed events. @TheCommonsMoLI is also open late! Book your ticket now at moli.ie/firstfridays @VKennefick

Get-in finished at @THTG @SligoRaincoats bring Happy Days by Samuel #Beckett to the Townhall Theatre Galway tomorrow night, one night only.

Out today! Beckett's afterlives bit.ly/415kF9M Edited by Jonathan Bignell, Pim Verhulst, Anna McMullan @StagingB The first study to analyse adaptations of #SamuelBeckett's work, with contributions from many #Beckett experts @DunlaithBird @DervalTubridy @davidhoustonjon

Sandra O Malley & John Carty in rehearsal for our upcoming TOUR of Happy Days by Samuel Beckett. Photos by Steve Rogers

Blog by Prof Jonathan Bignell on Beckett on Film and new book on Beckett and Adaptation: Beckett's Afterlives, Manchester UP:cstonline.net/adaptation-and…