The Thunder River Theatre Company opens their production of Endgame by Samuel Beckett on Feb. 16. Directed by Renee Prince at the TRTC, Beckett’s absurdist tragicomic play comes to Carbondale.
Waiting for Godot has been called ‘the play of the century,’ but that accolade doesn’t make staging Samuel Beckett’s most significant piece easy. The Irish playwright, who died in 1989, banned ...
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PITTSFIELD – On Jan. 5, 1953, a small four-character play written in French by an Irish playwright opened at the intimate Theatre de Babylone on Paris' Left Bank. Two years later, “En Attendant Godot” ...
No one ever goes gentle into the night of Samuel Beckett. No one jumps in excitement at the chance to see one of his plays. Calling his works “plays” is an oxymoron. They are bleak and dark, ...
Anyone plugging through life with the expectation that some well-deserved catharsis or epiphany--or even just a bit of clarity about what it all means--will be heading their way is bound to end up ...
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Having premiered in Paris in 1953, Samuel Beckett's masterpiece was first performed in English in London in 1955 – and was promptly named "Most Controversial Play" at the inaugural Evening Standard ...
When an obscure Irish writer living in Paris completed the draft of a play on Jan. 29, 1949, it was, he later remarked, little more than a “diversion” from the trilogy of novels on which he had been ...
(L-R): Greg Dean as Vladimir, Kyle Sturdivant as Pozzo, and Charlie Scott as Estragon in The Catastrophic Theatre’s 2013 production of Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot.” There are two things you ...
The wait begins! Two-time Tony Award nominee and multiple Olivier Award winner Jamie Lloyd returns to Broadway with a new production of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting For Godot starring Keanu Reeves and ...
At the top of the show, Keanu Reeves’ Estragon and Alex Winter’s Vladimir make a “1990s” reference to their past life together. No matter that “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure” came out in 1989.