Samuel Beckett News
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The streets of Enniskillen, the Northern Ireland town hosting the Group of Eight summit, were quiet as Leo McGreal stood outside his barber shop, smoking a pipe and laughing about the fuss caused by the preparations.
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Marian and David are sharing their lives, their thoughts, a bottle of wine and a bath.
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If there’s an actor who can do shambolic pathos better than the great Michael Gambon , he hasn’t appeared on the theater scene yet. If there’s a play better suited to exploit this quality than Samuel Beckett ’s short monologue “Krapp’s Last Tape,” now at London’s Duchess Theatre , it hasn’t surfaced on the theatrical radar either.
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The New Museum gathered cult followers of Christian Marclay’s 24-hour film “The Clock” to Cipriani Wall Street last night.
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On a Sunday morning in October, Simon Kelly sat in the breakfast room of Dublin’s Morrison Hotel, looking eager to chat. Simon, 38, and his father, Paddy Kelly, 66, were once among Ireland’s most audacious real estate developers. During the boom years, they borrowed about 700 million euros ($950 million) from Anglo Irish Bank Corp. to buy golf resorts and build hotels.
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Seventy years after issuing his call for France to defy the Vichy collaborationist regime, Charles de Gaulle is again dividing the French.
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Long-limbed and jowly, with animated eyebrows, the Irish actor Barry McGovern looks like the Samuel Beckett clowns he was born to play.
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Tonight at the Public Theater , the esteemed Irish actor Barry McGovern is scheduled to perform “Watt,” an adaptation of an early novel by Samuel Beckett .
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Godot isn’t likely to show up for the Republicans. Like the characters in Samuel Beckett’s play, the Republican establishment probably will wait in vain for a white knight -- Jeb Bush, Chris Christie and Paul Ryan are the most oft-cited -- to rescue the party’s presidential prospects.
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John Hurt picks up a banana, struggles with it and of course later slips on the peel.
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