Samuel Beckett: centenario della nascita

Samuel Beckett nasce a Foxrock nell'aprile del 1906; probabilmente il 13, Venerdì di Pasqua (Good Friday).
Laureato al Trinity College.
E' drammaturgo, scrittore e poeta.
Nel 1952 scrive la sua opera più famosa, quella che lo ha reso noto: Aspettando Godot.
Nel 1969 riceve il premio Nobel per la Letteratura.


Dublino si prepara a festeggiare il centenario della sua nascita con il Beckett Centenary Festival.

Qui il calendario:
>www.beckettcentenaryfestival.<

Sono previste mostre sull'autore in diversi istituti.

Il Trinity College ospita un simposio e una mostra dei suoi manoscritti.

La National Gallery presenta una mostra dal titolo "Samuel Beckett: A Passion for Paintings".

Film e fotografie sull'autore si potranno trovare rispettivamente all'Irish Film Institute e al National Photographic Archive.

Al Gate Theatre per tutto il mese di aprile saranno rappresentate opere di Beckett.
Qui il >programma<


"This April, the Beckett Centenary Festival will be opened again in Dublin. The Gate Theatre will play a dominant role in the celebrations. New stage productions of Beckett's plays will be performed at the Gate theatre and at the Barbican Festival in London.

Some of Beckett's real gems will be performed at the Gate Theatre in Dublin. Highlights include; Waiting for Godot and new productions of Endgame, Rockaby, Ohio Impromptu, Play, Catastrophe, Footfalls and Come and Go. Directors Loveday Ingram, Charles Sturridge, Atom Egoyan, Robin Lefèvre, Alan Gilsenan, Walter Asmus and Michael Caven will all take part in this Dublin Festival.

The Dublin Beckett festival will include lots of outdoor events. Street performers and animators will perform Motion Images inspired by Becketts plays. American artist Jenny Holzer will cast projections of quotations from Beckett's writings onto Dublin landmarks.

This is a jampacked festival with other events including art exhibitions at the Royal Hibernian Academy and the Douglas Hyde Gallery; photography exhibitions; a film festival at the Irish Film Institute; an Academic Symposium at Trinity College; music recitals at the National Concert Hall; radio and television documentaries and plays on RTÉ.

In April 2006, Dublin will experience a unique celebration of one of Ireland's foremost writers, Nobel Laureate Samuel Beckett. At the end of February full details of the programme of celebrations in the Beckett Centenary Festival will be announced. "

fonte: >www.dublinks.com<


Anche in Italia ci saranno delle manifestazioni per celebrare il centenario.
Il programma completo si trova >qui<


Sicuramente ci sarà qualche altro evento in altri Paesi o in giro per l'Irlanda. Chi lo segnala?

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Samuel Beckett: His Life and Work

with

Barry McGovern

Wednesday, March 8th, 2006 at 5.45 pm
Merrion Room, RDS
Ballsbridge


As part of the celebration to mark the centenary of the birth of Samuel Beckett the RDS is delighted to host a talk by the renowned actor Barry McGovern who is regarded by many as the leading interpreter of the work of Beckett.
In April he will play Vladimir in Waiting for Godot at the Gate Theatre which also be part of the Beckett Centenary celebrations.

This talk is an event that will have informative views for both the regular theatre goers and those who have in the past found Beckett difficult or forbidding.

Admission is free and open to the public.

Bono launches Beckett Centenary Festival
The festival programme to mark the centenary of the birth of Samuel Beckett was launched in Dublin Castle last night by U2 singer Bono and the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism, John O'Donoghue.

Numerous events will take place in April to celebrate the work of the Nobel Prize winner.

Bono was at the Beckett Centenary Festival launch at the invitation of Michael Colgan, Director of the Gate Theatre and the Chairman of the Beckett Centenary Committee.

Before the event Colgan asked Bono to perform a pastiche of Beckett and the singer was presented with a signed edition of Beckett's book 'Murphy'; Bono gave Beckett a copy of U2's 'The Unforgettable Fire' in 1985.

For more details on RTÉ's programmes for the Beckett Centenary Festival visit: www.rte.ie/beckett100

For more details on the festival visit:
www.beckettcentenaryfestival.ie.

Bono era presente alla inaugurazione del Beckett Centenary Festival al Dublin Castle e per l'occasione ha recitato questo pezzo (scritto da Bono stesso) sullo stile di Beckett.


"Un homage du Bono au maestro Samuel Beckett, starring un homage du Mannix Flynn à Barry McGovern - or a piece what I wrote called

WAITING FOR COLGAN

I’m so tired, I’m so tired of the telephone…
The telephone rings…
The sound of cigar… a booming voice in a booming town
Shattering the glasses of the drinking classes
1995 Puligny Montrachet, 400 quid a bottle… glug glug glug...
Good buy… good boy

One hundred years, one hundred bum steers, one hundred and seventeen thousand black beers before your peers
One hundred years
One hundred ears flappy happy happy clappy ears
It’s hard not to be happy when you feel the sappy in someone elses veins
As they kick a banana ball through the splits
On your birthday
And Ireland
Wins the triple crown on your birthday
It’s your birthday, it’s your birthday

I’ve been waiting
Waiting a long time
One hundred years
It gets tiring all this velvety blackness
that’s what Le Brocquy calls it…
Velvety blackness but there’s no nothingness
Oh no, just everythingness and judgment
The judgment of your peers…
Where’s Gaybo? Who’s Ryanair? Where are the trolly dollys? It’s not dollys on the trollies now
It’s the living and the dead clogging up the arteries of the health service
oh yes late to the late… late to the Late Late Show
Isn’t Brendan Gleeson the business
The pricks
The celts
Waiting, waiting for the tiger to catch its tail,
I’m waiting for the phone to ring
Michael Colgan
The sound of cigar
Booming town, booming voice, shattering the glasses of the drinking classes
Puligny Montrachet 1995
400 quid a bottle
Glug glug glug
One hundred years
I’m so tired

Louis and Anne, remember you gave me a signed copy of the unforgettable fire?
I told you I loved it? I lied, I never listened to it

Too busy
Waiting
Waiting for language to turn to liquid
Waiting for language to be our own again

Oh, Joyce had his revenge on they that put it in our mouth
His revenge
Was to chew it, bite into it, masticate and masterbate it
Make chewing gum of it
Spit it into hand and stick it on the bottom of a schoolboy’s desk

Me… I shrank it, swallowed it, made a fart out of it, made a fart out of everyone who didn’t like the smell of it
Such confusion caused by ignoring the obvious
Metaphor… I only met her for a drink... ha ha that’s what Simon says
Black Bush. George Bush the da says
The bombs are dropping closer, the Brudder, Nikki Sudden
Shattering the glasses of the drinking classes
Puligny Montrachet 1995 glug glug glug

Mother’s milk
I never had the mother’s tongue…
Just the father’s cranky aloof and lofty voice
That language was always there growing like teeth in the gum, like Chomsky says
I got closer to the brain than anyone before or after

I could hear you thinking,
I can hear you thinking now
Blinkin’ phone rings… sound of cigars
Michael Colgan birthday parties
Puligny Montrachet, 1995, 400 quid a bottle
glug glug glug

I’m so tired
All those PhDs
All those questions
Where’s Godot
Who’s Godot…
Everyone knows that
phone rings, sound of cigars
Table at the Unicorn
Puligny Montrachet
Glug glug glug
Big smoky voice shattering the glasses of the drinking classes
Birthday party sort it out…
Tell them death isn’t funny but eternity is a laugh
Tell the tiger not to eat its tale
Ah to win the triple crown on your birthday
Parties, it’s great to have them and not be there…
But don’t leave people waiting for too long
One hundred years, it’s a long time
The table is set, it looks great Michael
The sound of cigar, booming town, booming voice
Shattering the glasses of the drinking classes
Puligny Montrachet, glug glug glug
Waiting, waiting, waiting… to be fuckin’ understood
Waiting waiting waiting… for Colgan
Good boy, goodbye.’ "


Per gli amanti di Bono: se volete sentire Bono recitare questo pezzo, ascoltate il suo Pastiche of Beckett

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Per i corconiani: ci sono attività celebrative per Beckett anche a Cork, organizzate dal Triskel:
www.triskelart.com/floatingpage.htm

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Scritto da: nadiaidi 17/02/2006 1.58
Samuel Beckett nasce a Foxrock nell'aprile del 1906; probabilmente il 13,

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BUON COMPLEANNO SAMUEL!!!



Ed oggi è anche il compleanno di un altro premio nobel irlandese per la letteratura: Seamus Heaney, nato il 13 aprile 1939. Curiosa coincidenza.

La scorsa settimana Repubblica ha dedicato ben 2 pagine a Beckett : mi spiace non avere conservato il tutto e soprattutto di non averlo segnalato.

Se qualcuno recupera lo speciale, lo scansoniamo e lo pubblichiamo in questo topic.

Concludo con una curiosità : sulle colline astigiane, in un casolare gestito dalla Compagnia degli Alfieri, da molti anni esiste una piccola sala teatrale dedicata al grande drammaturgo.

Per l'occasione Dublino e' piena di poster con slogan molto divertenti.... uno recita qualcosa tipo: "iniziate pure senza di me. Godot."

se li trovo li posto (ma non li trovo )

"Start without me. Godot."

"One hundred years on. Still no sign of him"