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His name being mentioned in another thread reminded me that there are alot of celebrations going on around this time for his 100th birthday. I went to go and see Waiting for Godot at the Barbican the other day, and it was wonderful. Next Friday i'm going to see Endgame. What have you been doing to celebrate this wonderful man? |
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I dont know his work well but Ill go to a pub called the Beckett later if you like, but its named after Thomas im afraid |
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i guess that's a round-about way, sure, why not. |
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As mentioned in that self same thread I have been listening to the plays broadcast on Radio 3 which are available for another few days over . I recommend all the programmes on there, especially "Krapp's last tape" (about man who makes a tape every birthday, here he's an old man making a new tape and listening to his old self) and "Not I" with the ceasless stream of words from a woman in some kind of hell being compelled to gabble out her life. YEAH. |
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I wanted to go and see Krapp's last tape at the Barbican, John Hurt plays Krapp very well, i heard. I must get round to listening to the radio plays. I would love to read some more of his fiction, i've read half of Murphy and really enjoyed it. |
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Oh excellent, I love his novels. Especially the BIG triliogy Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable. Oh I like it all. |
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reading Beckett's plays made me want to become a playwright myself. how's that? eh? eh? "Krapp's last tape" is my favourite play. I'd love to make a new translation of that play, but it isn't allowed. you can only use the official translations. some of the Beckett On Film films are really excellent - case in point being "Krapp's last tape" with John Hurt and directed by Atom Egoyan. also "Play" directed by the creepy Antony Minghella is very, very good (it's an incredible play anyway). the dvd set of Beckett On Film is pretty expensive but well worth it. |
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Molloy is probably my favourite book, it's just really super. |
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talking about "Not I", you can get the whole 150Mb avi from ubuweb. also an mp3 of "Krapp's last tape" as a radioplay: . |
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Good calls! All of them. I keep forgetting about that ubu web, they have so many gems. So many. |
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it's ridiculous the amount of stuff on there. you can never buy another record in your life and just listen to stuff downloaded from there. Beckett was an incredible writer, such an incredible feel for drama in text. |
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'Play' is mental. That's one of my favourites. Endgame is good too. Its funny reading the Complete Dramatic Works. It gets so obscure towards the later pieces. I think 'Breath' should have won a best screenplay award, chortle. |
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I saw a production of "endgame" last year that was incredibly funny - not at all heavyhanded. I think Beckett suffers from the same preconception that Kafka suffers from - that they have written serious pieces that should be done/read seriously. both Beckett and Kafka are very funny writers, albeit in a bleak, nihilistic way. |
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Yes, for sure, there is a lot of humour, in the same surreal way that there's humour in David Lynch, kinda. Waiting for Godot is almost slapstick - its Laurel and Hardy in purgatory! |
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