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Dillane to Read and Discuss Beckett at 92nd Street Y...Dillane (The Real Thing, "John Adams") reading Beckett's poetry and prose. Dillane will also discuss the work of the late Endgame and Waiting for Godot playwright. The 92nd Street Y event is scheduled in anticipation of Lincoln Center's... In this article: Stephen Dillane, Judi Dench, Endgame, Waiting for Godot, The Real Thing, John Adams, and Samuel Beckett |
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Times Online | October 16, 2009
Endgame at the Duchess, London: theatre review
...immobile master of some post-apocalyptic cellar in Samuel Beckett's 1957 play. Endgame is the one-act, more mordant successor to Waiting for Godot. It is usually seen as the lesser piece, though I have always found its narrower,...
In this article: Simon McBurney, Complicite, Miriam Margolyes, Samuel Beckett, Tom Hickey, London, and Nihilism
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Telegraph.co.uk - Arts | October 16, 2009
Endgame at the Duchess Theatre review
...at the Duchess Theatre Photo: ALASTAIR MUIR Endgame is the masterpiece that sorts out the men from the boys when it comes to admirers of the bleak dramatic world of Samuel Beckett. Waiting for Godot, as the recent West End revival...
In this article: Samuel Beckett, Simon McBurney, Mark Rylance, Krapp's Last Tape, Waste, Global warming, and Happy Days
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Guardian Unlimited | October 15, 2009
Endgame
...how Beckett's plays have infiltrated the commercial theatre. No sooner does Waiting For Godot close than Endgame reappears in the West End: London's fourth revival in a decade. But, while Simon McBurney's Complicite production has its...
In this article: Tom Hickey, Simon McBurney, Miriam Margolyes, Bread, and Complicite
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Wikipedia | November 01, 2009
Samuel Beckett
Beckett went on to write a number of successful full-length plays, including 1957's Endgame '', the aforementioned ''Krapp's Last Tape (written in English), 1960's ''Happy Days '' (also written in English), and 1963's ''Play ''. In...
In this article: Samuel Barclay Beckett, James Joyce, Dante, Waiting for Godot, Suzanne Dechevaux-Dumesnil, Krapp, Thomas MacGreevy, Molloy, and Paris
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Guardian Unlimited | December 31, 2007
Theatre review: Bailegangaire / Arches, Glasgow
...to reach the end of it. When we laugh, it is at the futility of it all. In this, Murphy's play is like a domesticated version of Endgame or Waiting for Godot. If the grandmother gets to the end of her story, she will be able to get to...
In this article: Dog, Glasgow, Waiting for Godot, and Rockaby
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Wikipedia | October 09, 2009
The Actor's Nightmare
...Ellen tells him that it is a Samuel Beckett play called Checkmate (which seems to have elements of the plays Endgame, Happy Days, and Waiting for Godot). Literally forced on stage, George attempts to improvise his lines; however, the play...
In this article: George Spelvin, Hamlet, Private Lives, Ellen Terry, Henry Irving, Sarah Siddons, Christopher Durang, Edwin Booth, and Happy Days
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New Yorker: Everything | March 22, 2009
Anthony Lane: Samuel Beckett's life in letters.
...the writing life and becoming a pilot or a filmmaker. At the end of January, 1958, the first American production of Samuel Beckett's "Endgame" opened, at the Cherry Lane Theatre. The idea of Beckett playing on Commerce Street is rich in...
In this article: Samuel Beckett, Alan Schneider, Trinity College Dublin, Company, Portora Royal School, Waiting for Godot, The New Yorker, and Dream of Fair to Middling Women
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Newsday.com - Entertainment | December 27, 2008
'South Pacific,' 'Seagull' among Broadway's best in '08
...naked) in "Equus." Samuel Beckett has had a spectacular star-magnet of a year for a thorny dead playwright, attracting John Turturro in "Endgame," Liam Neeson and Ralph Fiennes in solos at the Lincoln Center Festival and Catherine...
In this article: Broadway, South Pacific, The Seagull, Sarah Kane, Arthur Miller, Coen brothers, Almost an Evening, Passing Strange, November, and Next to Normal
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TIME: Top Arts Stories | August 07, 2008
Samuel Beckett: Dead Laughing
"Gate Beckett," which ended a brief, triumphal run on Sunday, is a welcome addendum to the 1996 banquet of all 19 works he wrote for the stage, from the full-length Waiting for Godot, Endgame and Happy Days to the 40-second Breath. That...
In this article: Samuel Beckett, Ralph Fiennes, Eh Joe, Liam Neeson, First Love, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Happy Days, and Waiting for Godot
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Endgame, by Samuel Beckett, is a one-act play with four characters. It was originally written in French, entitled Fin de partie; as was his custom, it was translated into English by Beckett himself. Published in 1957, it is commonly considered, along with such works as Waiting for Godot, to be among Beckett's most important works.
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