Heute im @blnensemble
WARTEN AUF GODOT
von #SamuelBeckett
Das Jahrhundertwerk - philosophisch + komödiantisch mit den brillanten #MatthiasBrandt und #PaulHerwig in den Hauptrollen.
In Anbetracht der Absurdität des Lebens empfinde ich das Stück als gar nicht so absurd, sondern eher radikal. Viel Stoff zum Denken...
obligatory link to billie whitelaw's interpretation of beckett's 'not i'. grab a spliff if you've got one.
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=16rSsThMDiU
#samuelBeckett #billieWhitelaw #drama #monologue #literature
so...if you fancy waiting for godot, i can recommend allee samuel beckett in montparnasse. you can while away the hours watching billie whitelaw absolutely smash 'not i'.
ps: you should also know that sam worked as a courier with the french resistance & was nearly caught by the gestapo when his unit was betrayed.
#billieWhitelaw #samuelBeckett #montparnasse #author #ireland #illustration
'i pause to record that i feel in extraordinary form. delirium, perhaps.'
dark as was his perspective on human existence, you can feel the humour, pathos & compassion in beckett's words just as you can see them etched into his face of ancient clay. he can also teach us a lot about context. you've seen the motivational phrase 'fail again. fail better'? it's an extract from 'worstward ho' & it's not meant to be tech bro motivation. it's an acceptance of life's utter absurdity.
#samuelBeckett
even though it's likely apocryphal, my favourite story about samuel beckett is that he played chauffeur to a 12-year-old andre the giant. how did this situation arise? well, (if indeed there's any truth to the anecdote) sam was a member of andre's papa's card-playing group & andre's acromegaly meant he was too big for the local school bus. it's perfectly normal that a famous irish poet & playwright would don the hero's cape, non?
#samuelBeckett #andreTheGiant #art #literature
#art #history: double the beckett, double the...fun? well, 'my mistakes are my life', so that's what you're getting: two sams.
his birth (#otd in 1906) was the death of him & it'll come for the rest of us just as surely.
i've written more about 'quiff of the year (1906-1989)' below my scribbly tributes (if you're at all interested in why his words were just as important as his hair).
#samuelBeckett #ireland #poet #literature #illustration #frenchResistance #france
Rugadh Samuel Beckett ar 13 Aibreán 1906 i gCarraig an tSionnaigh, Contae Bhaile Átha Cliath. Bronnadh Duais Nobel na Litríochta ar Beckett sa bhliain 1969. Ba rí "Théatar na hÉigéille" é.
Samuel Beckett claimed that he was born on 13th April 1906, Good Friday, in Foxrock, County Dublin. His birth certificate says that he was born on 13th May.
He was awarded the the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969 "for his writing, which - in new forms for the novel and drama - in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation."
Jack Butler Yeats, brother of WB Yeats and a painter who developed an intensely expressionist style, died on 28th March 1957. He was a close friend of Samuel Beckett.
"If only he had been able to think of her, he would not have needed to dream of her." —Samuel Beckett, Murphy
'Whether reading a koan or a passage from Malone Dies, one has a sense of glimpsing The Absolute through a letterbox.'
Jonny Pelham on the challenge of designing #book covers for #SamuelBeckett
https://www.faber.co.uk/journal/book-cover-design-jonny-pelham-on-beckett
#books #reading #writing #publishing #design #bookstodon @bookstodon
Kaum hat es begonnen, ist es auch schon wieder vorbei. In „Atem“ reduziert #SamuelBeckett das Existenzielle auf 35 Sekunden. Um ein Stück, das #Theatergeschichte schrieb, geht es im Artikel des Tages https://www.dwds.de/wb/minimalistisch
Vladimir and Estragon should have been suspicious when Godot asked to meet them here.
‘In Finland you just ignore everyone you don’t know. Even people you know sometimes’ – The Irish Times https://www.byteseu.com/797691/ #Finland #NewToTheParish #SamuelBeckett #UniversityOfGalway
I'm just thinking of Samuel Beckett today because it's that part of winter where it's gone on for what seems like a long time now.
Rehearsing for "Endgame" in London in 1964, Jack MacGowran wondered how to deliver the line: "If I knew the combination of the safe, I'd kill you."
He asked Samuel Beckett for advice, and Beckett said: "Just think that if you knew the combination of the safe, you would kill him."
Waiting for Godot was first performed at the Théâtre de Babylone, Paris on 5 January 1953.
“Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It's awful.”
Samuel Beckett died on 22nd December 1989. He and his wife Suzanne were interred together in the cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris and share a simple granite gravestone that follows Beckett's directive that it should be "any colour, so long as it's grey".
Your thought for the day:
"Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness."
Samuel Beckett
