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A Writer’s Diary by Toby Litt review – birth, death and pencil sharpenings

This stimulating genre-blurring account of a year in the life of a writer asks how we weigh and value our days

The Guardian - UK

The Banshees of Inisherin reunites Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson in darkly comic allegory for Irish Civil War

The Banshees of Inisherin, from the Oscar-winning director of Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, uses the violent end of a friendship as an allegory for Ireland's Civil War.

ABC News

‘I threw my arms around Beckett!’ – electrifying first nights, by Ciarán Hinds, Eileen Atkins and more

The author of a new book about the greatest openings in theatre history asks stars of stage to recall their most thrilling first nights – and the occasional disasters that befell them

The Guardian - UK

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Sandbag sculpture: how Kyiv is shielding statues from Russian bombs

Target of bombs is unclear, with some speculating Russia is trying to destroy key Ukrainian monuments

The Guardian - UK

Robert Wilson: ‘We shouldn’t make theatre if we can’t laugh’

As his new version of Alfred Jarry’s scandalous Ubu Roi is staged in Spain, the innovative director considers the collision of the terrifying and the comic

The Guardian - UK

London theatre is officially back with a vengeance

And we’re back. Founded in 1955, the Evening Standard Theatre Awards are the UK’s oldest dramatic accolades, an annual recognition by London’s newspaper of the excellence of London’s theatre. Across seven decades, the awards honoured the great and the good both on and off stage in acting, writing, musical performance,…

Evening Standard

Textplay review – Beckett and Stoppard SMS comedy is short on lols

A virtual exchange imagined between two theatrical greats is full of literary references, mannered jokes and inconsequential chatter

The Guardian - UK

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Critics lament cuts to BBC radio drama – seedbed of UK talent

Stoppard, Pinter and Orton are among playwrights to have cut their teeth on a service that’s being cut back because of budget restraints

The Guardian - UK

The Ukrainian play caught in lunchtime limbo

EVER since it was founded by the late, great David MacLennan back in 2004, the lunchtime theatre A Play, A Pie And A Pint (PPP) has been…

The National (Scotland)

Big-toothed David Attenborough’s emergency debut: 100 years of the BBC, part four

The BBC overcomes its objection to Attenborough’s teeth, the flower pot men strike gibberish gold, Blue Peter sets sail, Samuel Beckett is silenced – and a ‘dee jay’ plays some pop

The Guardian - UK

Stumped review – at the crease with Beckett and Pinter

Shomit Dutta’s play imagines the two cricket-obsessed Nobel prize winners as waiting batsmen in an enjoyable spin on Waiting for Godot and The Dumb Waiter

The Guardian - UK

Heiner Goebbels: A House of Call review – fascinating work, mesmerisingly performed

Beckett, Rumi and first-world-war prisoners are referenced in Heiner Goebbels’ diverse score that incorporates chanting, jazz-rock, rhythmic dislocations and delicate solos

The Guardian - UK

The best theatre to stream this month: Beckett batting, Henry VI and a South African dance-off

Our roundup of drama to watch at home includes an intelligent political drama, a reimagined As You like It and a play about Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter’s passion for cricket

The Guardian - UK

Batting for Godot: the play about Beckett and Pinter teaming up for a game of cricket

The two titans of modern drama were both cricket obsessives. What if they had faced the fast bowlers together? Playwright Shomit Dutta explains why he made it happen – with darkly comic drama Stumped

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Belfast Live

Adrian Dunbar to star in new Emily Brontë biopic

It's set to be released in October 2022

Belfast Live

Adrian Dunbar: Line Of Duty star returns to home town to direct play on monastic island

“I’m very proud to have come from Enniskillen."

The Independent UK

Line Of Duty star returns to home town to direct play on monastic island

Adrian Dunbar is a long-time supporter of the Happy Days festival in Enniskillen that celebrates the work of playwright Samuel Beckett.

Belfast Live

Beckett festival returns for 10th year as Adrian Dunbar to direct Devenish Island performance

A packed schedule sees a number of famous faces making an appearance

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The Independent UK

Toby Jones excited to immerse himself in Beckett during boat act in Fermanagh

The actor is set to perform readings from Samuel Beckett in a graveyard, as well as on a boat on Lough Erne.

The Guardian - UK

Gabriel Byrne: ‘I was never not conscious of being Irish’

The actor discusses the stage adaptation of his memoir Walking With Ghosts, playing Samuel Beckett in a new film, and making peace with being an exile

Los Angeles Times

Appreciation: The radical majesty of British theater director Peter Brook

I've been fortunate to have met a number of geniuses in my years as a theater critic but only one who was a true sage.

The Conversation

The case of the acclaimed South African novel that 'borrows' from Samuel Beckett

Pereant qui ante nos nostra dixerunt: may those who utter our words before us perish. This lighthearted Latin curse speaks a truth many readers and writers have felt: to have our thoughts articulated by someone else.

Belfast Live

East Belfast Samuel Beckett mural restored after being vandalised

Artist Glen Molloy created the mural as part of a series of projects promoting positivity in East Belfast

The Guardian - UK

The Big Hit review – feelgood prison comedy as convicts do Beckett

A curmudgeonly actor helps prisoners put on a production of Waiting for Godot in Emmanuel Courcol’s predictable drama

The Guardian - UK

Yell, Sam, If You Still Can by Maylis Besserie review – Beckett’s last days

A remarkable debut that imagines the Irish writer communing with lost loved ones in a Paris nursing home

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