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"Samuel Beckett" (27 results)
Samuel Beckett has fascinated Adrian Dunbar since he was a young student. Now, 30 years after Beckett's death in Paris, Du...
Lenny Henry sets out to rectify his lack of appreciation of the work of Samuel Beckett, with the help of actors Simon Mc...
Play by Samuel Beckett, starring Billie Whitelaw, his foremost interpreter. Introduced by Martin Esslin.
Filmed in five countries, this film - made with co-operation of relations, friends and artistic collaborators - traces Samue...
Filmed by celebrated filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker, the program follows Billie Whitelaw as she prepares for her latest Beckett role.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of the author of Waiting for Godot, who lived in Paris and wrote in French as he found that mo...
Richard Eyre looks at influence of political and poetic dramas of Berthold Brecht and Samuel Beckett on British playwrights f...
In the current production of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot at The Theatre Royal Haymarket in London, Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart play...
One of the great literary figures of the century, Samuel Beckett, died in Dec 1989. Tonights prog opens a season of classic performances made over the years f...
A rare opportunity to see Samuel Beckett interpret his own work. Starring Billie Whitelaw and Leonard Fenton, the play follows Winnie, buried to h...
Broadcasts for Schools: Waiting For Godot by Samuel Beckett: a commentary by Martin Esslin.
The first-ever British production of Samuel Beckett's Waiting For Godot with a cast of black actors is about to open at the West Y...
Anne McElvoy presents the arts and ideas programme. Including a review of the new production of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot starring I...
Playwright Gabriel Gbadamosi reviews a new production of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, featuring an all-black cast, at the...
How Samuel Beckett's existentialist masterpiece revolutionised the theatre 60 years ago.
A previous incumbent of the bridge of the Enterprise, Patrick Stewart, can currently be found at the ...
This evening's programme is an experiment in expressing on television some of Mr. Beckett's central themes and ideas as they occur not only in his...
Two acts from ''Waiting for Godot'' with Max Wall, Leo McKern, Graham Crowden and Basil Clarke.
Lauren Elkin, Lisa Appignanesi and biographer Ben Moser debate Susan Sontag's life and ideas with prese...
Sir Ian McKellen discusses taking on the role of Estragon in Waiting for Godot - a play voted the most significant English language play of the 20th...
Stories and reflections from actors across the world who have all played the same part about what the roles mean to them. This week: Vladimir an...
Novelist Jake Arnott believes narrative is a powerful force. He thinks the instinct to create stories is innate within us, an...
Allan takes internationally acclaimed theatre director Haris Pasovic back to the Youth Theatre in Sarajevo where he invited Susan Sontag...
Waiting for Godot - the play without a plot that shocked audiences but then changed theatre forever...
With Alan Howard, Michael Maloney, Stratford Johns, Simon Russell Beale and Geraldine McEwan. Directed by Peter Wood. A Catherine Bailey Ltd product...
16 March 2020, the PM advises us not to visit theatres. 17 March 2020, on stage, the cast of Waiting for Godot wait to find out if...
It's a play where famously ''nothing happens''. Vladimir and Estragon are bowler-hatted tramps standing on a country road waiting for s...
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