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Remembering Brenda Walker

Vale Brenda Walker, 1957–2024

The Conversation

Caspar David Friedrich: the racked Romantic painter who inspired Beckett and Bambi

His gloomy, gorgeous paintings have been described as so powerful that they have tempted viewers to oblivion – but many were lost or destroyed. Next year, a major exhibition will gather some 75 together

The Guardian - UK

The Pirates of Penzance at the London Coliseum review: bold, bright and inviting as a comic strip

4/5 Mike Leigh’s take on the production is comparatively sober, but don’t worry: there’s still humour in spades

Evening Standard

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Samuel Beckett smoking a French cigarette: John Haynes’s best photograph

‘One day, I was summoned to a pub near the Royal Court theatre where Samuel Beckett was looking at my work. “These are wonderful pictures,” he said’

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Gary Oldman announces his long-awaited return to the stage in Beckett classic

The Slow Horses star will perform the monologue Krapp’s Last Tape at York Theatre Royal in the spring

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Waiting for Godot; Coriolanus; A Face in the Crowd – review

Ben Whishaw and Lucian Msamati add star power to James Macdonald’s thoughtful Beckett; David Oyelowo’s Coriolanus is dwarfed by epic staging; and an Elvis Costello-scored musical has too few high notes

The Guardian - UK

James Joyce’s glorious lists and pop’s place at the Proms

Letters: Mary Adams says nobody compiled lists in literature quite like the Irish novelist. Plus a letter from Dr Richard Carter

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Waiting for Godot at Theatre Royal Haymarket review: the best staging of this challenging classic I’ve ever seen

Ben Whishaw and Lucian Msamati take this production to a whole new level

Evening Standard

Waiting for Godot review – Beckett’s classic tragicomedy is more comedic than tragic

James Macdonald’s production sacrifices tension for slapstick but ultimately delivers pathos

The Guardian - UK

Waiting for owners: former Chelsea home of Samuel Beckett for sale for £5.5m

48 Paultons Square has been home to two Nobel Prize winners: dramatist Samuel Beckett, who lived there in 1934, and physicist Patrick Blackett from 1953 to 1969

Evening Standard

Venice Dance Biennale: There Was Still Time; Folklore Dynamics review – full of ideas and intent

Hip-hop meets Samuel Beckett in one of two new commissions by Italian choreographers, while the other struggles under the weight of its ambition

The Guardian - UK

Bill And Ted To Star In Broadway Revival Of Waiting For Godot

Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter reunite for a Broadway production of Waiting for Godot, directed by Jamie Lloyd. Exciting stage reunion of iconic actors.

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Keanu Reeves set to reunite with Bill & Ted co-star Alex Winter on Broadway

The pair will appear together in a production of Samuel Beckett’s ‘Waiting for Godot’

The Independent UK

Keanu Reeves to make Broadway debut opposite Bill & Ted co-star Alex Winter

The actors will star in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot from award-winning British director Jamie Lloyd

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The waiting is over! Have the times finally caught up with Godot?

Samuel Beckett’s groundbreaking play is back again, this time starring Ben Whishaw and Lucian Msamati. Its tragicomic take on existence may match our cultural moment

The Guardian - UK

Can’t get you out of my head: why pop culture is still under Kafka’s spell

A century on from the author’s death, the word ‘kafkaesque’ has survived wrangles over his estate, calls for its banishment and being used on the Simpsons and misused as a meme. How did it gain such a hold over culture?

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Compagnie Maguy Marin: May B review – an absurdly beautiful dance translation of Samuel Beckett

The French choreographer’s 1981 interpretation of the playwright’s world rewards patience with its magic and precision

The Conversation

The Swimmer, Russian thugs, Jesus’ feet: Anne Carson’s lyrical, surreal new work strategically pricks literary seriousness

Wrong Norma, the latest collection of writings (and drawings and facsimiles) by the feted Canadian poet Anne Carson, is a work full of allusions, quotations, references, parody and other forms of stylised evocation.

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‘An exceptional experience’: Adrian Dunbar to curate Samuel Beckett festival in Liverpool

Line of Duty actor will oversee classic plays as well as new pieces inspired by the Irish author in Beckett: Unbound 2024

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‘A literary voice for the ages’: Paul Auster remembered by Ian McEwan, Joyce Carol Oates and more

The critically acclaimed American writer has died aged 77. Here, contemporaries pay tribute to his life and work

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‘She was trying to find herself’: the untold story of Peggy Guggenheim, Hampshire homemaker

A new exhibition shows another side of Peggy Guggenheim – the five years she spent in Hampshire and Sussex giving the ordinary life her best shot

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Knife by Salman Rushdie review – a story of hatred defeated by love

A book its author ‘would much rather not have needed to write’ ranges far beyond his attempted murder and recovery

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Women have found their voice in Turkey, and given hope to others fighting for democracy across the globe

Big opposition wins in last week’s elections reasserted the country’s liberal, secular values, says novelist Elif Shafak

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“Lyrically, it’s something that makes Samuel Beckett sound like Tommy Cooper." Tim Bowness and the story of Flowers At The Scene

Tim Bowness may explore morose subjects like murder and divorce on his new album, but this collection of “cinematic short stories”, featuring an impressive prog line-up, is certainly not all doom and gloom…

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Who dares clown around with Waiting for Godot?

Letters: Sarah-Jane Watkinson, Brendan Mulcahy and Jude Emmet reply to a letter that called for adding circus stunts to Samuel Beckett’s play

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