We are delighted to announce that Eimear McBride’s three short, characteristically powerful and disorientating texts depicting a fragmentary female experience, has been published in one collection, Mouthpieces, earlier this month….Read More >
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Beckett and War: recently published
William Davies, Beckett Research Centre Post-Doctoral Fellow has recently published a book and two articles on Beckett and his war writing. ‘Crawling in the Flanders mud’: Samuel Beckett, war writing…Read More >
Recently published: Samuel Beckett’s Philosophy Notes
Samuel Beckett’s Philosophy Notes, edited by Steven Matthews, Co-Director of The Samuel Beckett Research Centre, and Matthew Feldman, is a major new Beckett text that reveals major aspects of Beckett’s philosophical thought…Read More >
Beckett and Mediality: recently published articles
Members of the Samuel Beckett Research Centre have recently published a number of articles on Beckett and intermediality and transmediality. Mark Nixon, Co-Director of the Beckett International Foundation, was one…Read More >
Coming soon – Mouthpieces by Eimear McBride
We’re delighted to announce that Eimear McBride’s three short, characteristically brilliant texts depicting a fragment of female experience, will be collected in one work, Mouthpieces, and published in February 2021….Read More >
Samuel Beckett Summer School, TCD
The Samuel Beckett Summer School at Trinity College Dublin took place on 9 – 14 August 2015. Internationally renowned Beckett scholars gave lectures and seminars on a variety of subjects,…Read More >
Happy Days Enniskillen International Beckett Festival 2015
The 4th Happy Days Enniskillen International Beckett Festival took place between 22 July and 2 August 2015. Attended by internationally renowned scholars and theatre practitioners, as well as members of…Read More >
BBC Artsnight Programme
On Friday 31st July an Artsnight episode dedicated to Samuel Beckett was aired on BBC2. Presented by renowned actor and director, Richard Wilson, the programme included interviews with Jim Knowlson, as well…Read More >
Acquisition of the Billie Whitelaw Collection
The University of Reading and the Beckett International Foundation are delighted to announce the purchase of a unique archive of actor Billie Whitelaw’s work with playwright Samuel Beckett. The £35,000…Read More >