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Pages in category "Plays by Samuel Beckett" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Samuel Barclay Beckett (/ ˈ b ɛ k ɪ t / ⓘ; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish-born writer of novels, plays, short stories and poems. His literary and theatrical work features bleak, impersonal, and tragicomic experiences of life, often coupled with black comedy and nonsense .
Samuel Beckett said that in his choice of character's names, he had in mind the word "hammer" and the word "nail" in English, French and German respectively, "clou" and "nagel". [ citation needed ] Beckett was an avid chess player, and the term endgame refers to the ending phase of a chess game.
Quad is a television play by Samuel Beckett, written and first produced and broadcast in 1981.It first appeared in print in 1984 (Faber and Faber) where the work is described as "[a] piece for four players, light and percussion" [1] and has also been called a "ballet for four people."
Play is a one-act play by Samuel Beckett. It was written between 1962 and 1963 and first produced in German as Spiel on 14 June 1963 at the Ulmer Theatre in Ulm-Donau , Germany, directed by Deryk Mendel , with Nancy Illig (W1), Sigfrid Pfeiffer (W2) and Gerhard Winter (M).
Waiting for Godot (/ ˈ ɡ ɒ d oʊ / ⓘ GOD-oh or / ɡ ə ˈ d oʊ / ⓘ gə-DOH [1]) is a play by Irish playwright Samuel Beckett in which two characters, Vladimir (Didi) and Estragon (Gogo), engage in a variety of discussions and encounters while awaiting the titular Godot, who never arrives. [2]
Manuscript of Embers from Trinity College Library. Embers is a radio play by Samuel Beckett.It was written in English in 1957.First broadcast on the BBC Third Programme on 24 June 1959, the play won the RAI prize at the Prix Italia awards later that year. [1]
Ohio Impromptu is a "playlet" [1] by Samuel Beckett. Written in English in 1980, it began as a favour to S.E. Gontarski, who requested a dramatic piece to be performed at an academic symposium in Columbus, Ohio, in honour of Beckett’s seventy-fifth birthday. Beckett was uncomfortable writing to order and struggled with the piece for nine ...