Samuel Beckett
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Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish playwright, novelist, and poet. Written in both English and French, his literary and theatrical works feature bleak, impersonal, and tragicomic episodes of life, co
Beckett in 1977
Beckett's residence at Trinity College Dublin, pictured in 2021
Samuel Beckett Walk in Paris
Portrait of Samuel Beckett by Reginald Gray, painted in Paris, 1961 (from the collection of Ken White, Dublin)
Endgame (play)
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Endgame is an absurdist, tragicomic one-act play by the Irish playwright Samuel Beckett. First performed in London in 1957, it is about a blind, paralysed, domineering elderly man, his geriatric paren
Samuel Beckett
…of Waiting for Godot opened up a career in theatre for its author. Beckett went on to write successful full-length plays, including Fin de partie (Endgame) (1957), Krapp's Last Tape (1958, written in English), Happy Days (1961, also written in English), and Play (1963). In 1961, Beckett received the…
Berliner Ensemble, 2016 directed by Robert Wilson
The Roger Blin production at Studio des Champs-Elysées, 26 April 1957
Gustavus Adolphus College production with Thomas Buan and Samuel Keillor, directed by Amy Seham, 2016