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The Minghella Building, University of Reading, Whiteknights campus, Reading.<\/b><\/p>\n

Thursday 3rd<\/sup> October 7.30pm. Doors open 6.30pm.<\/b><\/p>\n

Followed by wine reception. <\/b><\/p>\n

The University of Reading, the Staging Beckett project, and the Beckett International Foundation are delighted to present a conversation with acclaimed theatre director Ian Rickson, who will be talking about the challenges of directing the work of Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter, with Mark Taylor-Batty who has written extensively on both playwrights.<\/p>\n

The AHRC-funded Staging Beckett project, a collaboration with the University of Chester and the Victoria and Albert Museum, is developing the world\u2019s first comprehensive database of productions of Beckett\u2019s plays in the UK and Ireland which will be available in 2014. This is a pilot for a wider performings arts database.<\/p>\n

An exhibition will be open for the evening of the event to celebrate diverse productions of Krapp\u2019s Last Tape<\/i> in the UK and Ireland, including Rickson\u2019s production with Harold Pinter, and the premiere of the play at the Royal Court Theatre in 1957, starring Patrick Magee, directed by George Devine and designed by Jocelyn Herbert.\u00a0 The exhibition will showcase items in the University\u2019s collection related to Krapp\u2019s Last Tape<\/i>, and items from the Jocelyn Herbert Archive, housed at Wimbledon College of Art, University of the Arts, London (Wimbledon).<\/p>\n

Tickets are free but registration is essential. To book tickets visit: www.reading.ac.uk\/events <\/b><\/a>and follow the event link Enquiries: events@reading.ac.uk<\/b><\/p>\n

Ian Rickson was Artistic Director at the Royal Court from 1998 to 2006, during which time he directed Krapp\u2019s Last Tape, The Winterling, Alice Trilogy, The Sweetest Swing in Baseball, Fallout, The Night Heron, Boy Gets Girl, Mouth to Mouth<\/i> (also in the West End), Dublin Carol, The Weir<\/i> (also in the West End and on Broadway), The Lights, Pale Horse <\/i>and Mojo<\/i> (also at the Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago), Ashes & Sand, Some Voices <\/i>and Killers.<\/i>\u00a0His last production for the Royal Court, The Seagull<\/i>, transferred to Broadway. Other theatre includes Old Times <\/i>(West End), The River <\/i>(Royal Court), Hamlet <\/i>(Young Vic), Jerusalem<\/i> (Royal Court, West End and Broadway), Betrayal <\/i>(Comedy Theatre), The Children\u2019s Hour <\/i>(Comedy Theatre), The Hothouse<\/i> and The Day I Stood Still<\/i> (NT), Parlour Song<\/i> (Almeida), Hedda Gabler<\/i> (Roundabout Theatre, New York), The House of Yes<\/i> (Gate) and\u00a0Me & My Friend<\/i> (Chichester Festival Theatre). Film includes: Fallout, Krapp\u2019s Last Tape<\/i> and The Clear Road Ahead<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Mark Taylor-Batty is Senior Lecturer in Theatre Studies at the Workshop Theatre, School of English, University of Leeds. He is co-author with Juliette Taylor-Batty, of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot<\/i> and has produced a monograph on Beckett’s first director, Roger Blin: Collaborations and Metholodogies<\/i> (Peter Lang, 2007). He has written extensively on Harold Pinter, including About Pinter<\/i> (Faber and Faber, 2005) and the Forthcoming Theatre of Harold Pinter<\/i> (Methuen Drama, 2014). He is an executive member of the International Harold Pinter Society, and a co-editor, with Enoch Brater, of the new ‘Methuen Drama Engage’ series of monographs on modern drama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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