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5) the corner of a photo of the house in foxrock where beckett was born

a.k.a. texts for nothing...

4) the back of a photo of the house in rousillon where beckett spent part of wwii

3) the back of a note identifying a photo written on the reverse of a seemingly unrelated library card

2) a photocopy of the verso of a page of beckett's typed manuscript for watt

1) the cover of a folio containing a single handwritten sheet of the draft for the unnameable, encased in plastic

i spent the last week in the beckett archive at reading university as this year's samuel beckett creative fellow. it was intense, confusing, sometimes disturbing, sometimes boring, strangely exhausting, none of which are bad things. i couldn't photograph beckett's handwriting/manuscripts so here's:

wow - honoured to be here

Whoever came up with the name “Ewok Powell” to describe Tommy Robinson should take the rest of the year off.

Caiwei Chen at MIT @technologyreview.com recommends Amateurs!

Complete with birthday card lineation

Patrick Magee, Becketts fave actor also in this one!

Theatre news: Kelly and Costigan wait for Godot in Glasgow, Liverpool and Bolton Citizens Theatre Artistic Director Dominic Hill will direct Beckett's Waiting For Godot starring Matthew Kelly and George Costigan.

Theatre news: Kelly and Costigan wait for Godot in Glasgow, Liverpool and Bolton

Citizens Theatre Artistic Director Dominic Hill will direct Beckett's Waiting For Godot starring Matthew Kelly and George Costigan.

www.britishtheatreguide.info/news/kelly-a...

SPIRITS is a year-long artwork designed to be experienced on your mobile browser. Irish artist john gerrard collected 96 plastic sandals and shoes from beaches across the world, each one carrying unknown stories of the people who wore them.

Check out our former Beckett Fellow John Gerrard’s immensely powerful ‘Spirits’ takeover at the LACMA website lacma.org

Congratulations🥳

Twenty Questions with Simon Okotie

What does a writing day look like for you? ‘I write fiction on Wednesday and Sunday mornings between 1 March and 31 October (inclusive).’

Twenty Questions with Simon Okotie

Acclaimed theatre director Walter D. Asmus visited Minghella Studies to talk about his collaborations with #SamuelBeckett at the 35th Beckett International Foundation research seminar

🔗 rdg.ac/3LspbMg

@uorspeccoll.bsky.social @beckettreading.bsky.social #theatresky

Please book in advance at the link in previous email.

Speakers for the BIF seminar on 1 Nov: Ros Maprayil: landscapes in Godot
Mark Taylor-Batty: Blin, Beckett and Godot
Trish McTighe and Kathryn White: ‘Godot at the Happy Days Enniskillen Beckett Festival’
Walter Asmus in conversation with Matthew McFrederick followed by audience Q&A.

The 2025 Beckett International Foundation seminar on 1 Nov at university of Reading is celebrating 70 years of Waiting for Godot with director Walter Asmus who worked closely with Beckett on several productions - more info to follow and you can book here: www.store.reading.ac.uk/conferences-...

New research 📖

'Glancing at Dramatists' Dialogue: From Shakespeare to Suzan-Lori Parks' by the late Ruby Cohn, edited by Hannah Simpson & Daniela Caselli, examines English-language dramatic dialogue, tracing verbal invention across four centuries.

https://bit.ly/4gKTWHC

Reading in Marseille on Wednesday and talking with Mary Fitzgerald - please come!

reminder: if you like cursed images, trash essays, Wiki aesthetic categories, shrimp Jesus & AI slop, book your ticket for the launch of Amateurs! How We Made Internet Culture and Why it Matters ( @versobooks.bsky.social ) at @burleyfisher.bsky.social with @nrolah.bsky.social, tues sept 23rd!

Last clause in Mark E Smith voice

"Can I read you some of my poetry?"

Tonight! Hope to see you there.

Paul Durcan wrote this, but I feel he had the soul of a hare as well