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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

The Guardian - UK

Krapp’s Last Tape review – Stephen Rea is hauntingly good in Beckett’s masterpiece

There isn’t a hint of sentimentality in Vicky Featherstone’s delicately calibrated production of Samuel Beckett’s monologue about mortality

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TV tonight: Dynamo escapes being buried alive during a live broadcast

Before he gets boxed in, the magician talks to Chris Martin, Tony Hawk and other celebrities about mental health. Plus, vets help pets give birth. Here’s what to watch tonight

The Guardian - UK

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny to Adaptation: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Harrison Ford returns for a final crack of the whip, and Spike Jonze’s classic meta comedy starring Nicolas Cage and Meryl Streep

The Guardian - UK

Ben Whishaw and Lucian Msamati to star in West End production of Waiting for Godot

Actors to make ‘merry mischief’ in Samuel Beckett’s play at Theatre Royal Haymarket in September

The Guardian - UK

Lydia Davis' amusing, insightful stories address the estrangements of everyday life – and resist the hollowing of language

Lydia Davis is known for her minimalist fiction – “economy, precision and originality” is how the author Ali Smith once described her style. Her shortest story, Index Entry, amounts to just four words:

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Tony Rohr obituary

Actor known for screen roles in The Long Good Friday and Harry’s Game, and as a stalwart of the Joint Stock Theatre Group

The Guardian - UK

Dance First review – the two faces of Samuel Beckett with Gabriel Byrne

Byrne is a good fit as the conflicted writer, but James Marsh’s crisp biographical film feels at odds with the passion of Beckett’s work

The Guardian - UK

Making your mind up: the best descriptions of indecision in literature

The last word, our series about emotions and states of mind in books, focuses on depictions of dithering this month, from Hamlet to the ‘maybe-boyfriend’ of Anna Burns’s Milkman

The Guardian - UK

Dance First review – Samuel Beckett’s life given the high gloss Hollywood treatment

Vivid portrait of the great playwright of inertia points up the contrast with his real-life romantic entanglements and daring work for the French resistance

The Guardian - UK

Gabrielle Carey's affectionate life of James Joyce is a story of contingency, vulnerability and sadness

Gabrielle Carey cast a distinctive shadow within Australian writing, one you miss acutely only when it is no longer bodily present, even as elements of her essence remain as words on the page.

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Nobel prize winner Jon Fosse: ‘It took years before I dared to write again’

In 2012, the Norwegian novelist and playwright collapsed. He gave up drinking, retreating from the public eye – then, earlier this month, he got a call from the Swedish academy. He discusses how it feels to win a Nobel prize

The Guardian - UK

Jon Fosse wins the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature for giving 'voice to the unsayable'

Jon Fosse has just been awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature for his “innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable”.

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Norwegian writer Jon Fosse awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

His name had long been on the list of potential Nobel laureates. This Thursday, the Swedish Academy named Norwegian playwright and author Jon Fosse the winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in 1959 on Norway's western coast, the 64-year-old's vast body of work includes plays, novels, poetry,…

The Independent UK

Sir Michael Gambon remembered as the ‘loveliest of legends’

The Dublin-born star of the stage and screen, who won four TV Baftas, died peacefully in hospital aged 82.

The Guardian - UK

Michael Gambon, star of Harry Potter and The Singing Detective, dies aged 82

The Olivier award-winning actor, whose major film roles included Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter series, has died

The Guardian - UK

‘A lot of biopics depend on likeness – this is braver’: Gabriel Byrne on playing Samuel Beckett

The actor talks about his new movie Dance First, in which he plays the Irish dramatist, the time he shared a drink with Richard Burton and why he had to leave Los Angeles

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Evening Standard

Prom 43 at Royal Albert Hall review: Samuel Beckett’s Endgame, reimagined

Many spellbinding moments, with a handful of dramaturgical hiccups

The Guardian - UK

New host, new set, same fiendish questions: behind the scenes with the all-new University Challenge

Forget the revamp, the quizshow is as tricky as ever. Scott Bryan plays along disastrously, then meets new anchor Amol Rajan to talk nerves, piña coladas and replacing Paxman

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Happy Days review – Siobhán McSweeney brings masterful touch to Beckett’s masterpiece

The Derry Girls star adds wonderfully subtle clowning and a beguiling naturalism to the absurd classic about a woman quite literally stuck in marital stasis

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: As You Like It; Tambo & Bones; Stumped – review

Seasoned actors turn Shakespeare’s romcom on its head in an enchanted RSC production; US race relations meet Waiting for Godot; and at the crease with Beckett and Pinter

The Guardian - UK

Juliet Fraser/Knussen Chamber Orchestra review – new works showcase soprano’s extraordinary repertoire

New music by Cassandra Miller, Newton Armstrong, Rebecca Saunders and Ryan Wigglesworth was brilliantly brought to life by Fraser and Roderick Williams

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Ukraine's long-awaited counteroffensive has finally begun - but why now and to what end?

A few days into the news that the Ukrainian army has recaptured territorities from the Russian occupying forces, Kyiv’s counteroffensive still has plenty to intrigue us. Announced in autumn 2022, this summer 2023 campaign has been a long time coming. So much so that it almost came to seem like…

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