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Booker Prize 2021: Everything you need to know about Damon Galgut and his winning novel The Promise

Belfast Telegraph 03 Nov 2021
South African writer Damon Galgut has triumphed over the likes of Patricia Lockwood and Richard Powers to be crowned the winner of the 2021 Booker Prize for Fiction ... PA. / ... In an interview with the Booker Prize, Galgut said his literary inspirations include William Faulkner, Patrick White, Virginia Woolf and Samuel Beckett ... Enter email address ... Latest. .
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Synod O’Brien: Single Girlkind in

Swords Today 02 Nov 2021
Originally from Limerick, O’Brien’s works that transcend everyday and intermittent labels. Writing from his own observations, O’Brien’s influence on Mark E ... Reflected in Smith’s realism and in the works of literary geniuses such as Samuel Beckett, WB Yeats, Flan O’Brien, and Joan Didion. Albert Camus ... Harding Hansen.
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Stephentown, N.Y.: Players performing Samuel Beckett play

The Berkshire Eagle 01 Nov 2021
The Stephentown Players will stage Samuel Beckett’s "Krapp’s Last Tape" at 7 p.m. Saturdays, Nov ... Admission is free ... Modal ... Subscribe today. Cancel anytime ... ....
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“Broken Mirror – A Frankenstein Odyssey” Oct. 29-Nov. 7

Santa Monica Daily Press 01 Nov 2021
The Santa Monica College Theatre Arts Department is pleased to announce the return of live performances with the world premiere production of “Broken Mirror – A Frankenstein Odyssey,” by G. Bruce Smith and directed by Perviz Sawoski ... Performances are Oct ... Four Short Plays by Samuel Beckett,” “Flamenco Macbeth,” and “Cesar and Ruben.” ... Weekly ... .
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PRIME_TIME review — a shallow rant against the boss of Amazon

The Times/The Sunday Times 01 Nov 2021
★★☆☆☆ ... Made after winning the Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust award last year, PRIME_TIME is a howl of rage rather than a nuanced critique ... .
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Prime_Time review – memorably unsettling Amazon takedown

The Observer 31 Oct 2021
“Your package will arrive in 60 minutes,” announces the soothing voice of Alexa at the start of Prime_Time, a full-throttle, punk-techno disquisition on life in the age of Amazon ... It is there ostensibly as protection ... The couple’s motives seem harmless at first ... (Fittingly so, for a trio who won the 2020 Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust award.) ... .
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Beckett-inspired dance piece to headline pop-up winter festival

The Irish Times 30 Oct 2021
The company will present her iconic work, May B, an homage to Samuel Beckett, first produced 30 years ago, a type of homecoming with this Dublin premiere. Marin’s relationship with Beckett began when she was a young dancer with the Bejart Ballet in Brussels ... this trait in Beckett.
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Gate Theatre Artistic Director Selina Cartmell to step down

RTE 28 Oct 2021
The Gate Theatre has announced that Selina Cartmell will step down as Artistic Director and CEO in March of 2022, following the completion of her five-year term ... Christmas presentation Mabel’s Magnificent Flying Machine and a revival of Samuel Beckett's Endgame, set to star Robert Sheehan and comedian Frankie Boyle ... .
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Artistic director of Gate Theatre Selina Cartmell to leave after five years

Irish Independent 28 Oct 2021
The artistic director and chief executive of the Gate Theatre will leave her position after five years ... Ms Cartmell will stay on to deliver two more shows, namely Mabel’s Magnificent Flying Machine (Louise Lowe) and Endgame (Samuel Beckett) and to facilitate a search process for her successor. .
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‘Death’s Door’ comes to PlayStation and Nintendo Switch this November

NME 28 Oct 2021
READ MORE ... Previously only available on PC and Xbox, it’s a game that we described as “like Samuel Beckett meets Adventure Time, combining an abstract, tragic sensibility with juvenile humour and acid-tongued barbs.” Death’s Door offers an atmospheric mixture of great puzzles, exploration, and some challenging combat too ... .
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Theatrical night out – with the Treaty debates providing the drama

The Irish Times 27 Oct 2021
The last time I had seen him in anything was during the far-off days of 2019, when he was part of a group performing Samuel Beckett’s All That Fall at the Beckett family church in Foxrock ...  This time, in a world unimaginable then, we were wearing mouth and nose masks, to prevent another kind of contamination. And of course, we brought our own ... .
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Culture 5 - your cultural highlights for the next seven days

RTE 27 Oct 2021
Exhibition. Our Irish Chair. Tradition Revisited ... With its triangular seat and a narrow back that is immediately distinctive ... Chair made by Tom Durkan, Tourmakeady East, Co. Mayo. Screening. Dublin After Dark ... Event ... He's also coming to The Gate Theatre next February, starring alongside comic Frankie Boyle in a revival on Samuel Beckett's Endgame...
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Review: Odyssey Theatre’s ‘The Serpent’ resurrects a 1960s theatrical landmark

The Los Angeles Times 27 Oct 2021
Originally programmed as part of the Odyssey’s 50th anniversary “Circa ’69” season, “The Serpent” has returned in all its slithering strangeness ... Advertisement. My familiarity with Chaikin comes mainly from his productions of Samuel Beckett and Shepard that he directed late in his career, after a stroke had left him aphasic ... Entertainment & Arts.
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