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Working with Samuel Beckett

By rhystranter on | From apieceofmonologue.com
Billie Whitelaw, Jean Martin and others share their memories of the renowned modern playwright I'll never cease to be amazed by the wealth of material freely available on Youtube. Yesterday afternoon I chanced upon the above clip, a nine-minute excerpt from a documentary where a number of Samuel Beckett's friends and colleagues are interviewed. Samuel Beckett with the original cast of En attendant Godot (Waiting for Godot) The first, lengthy part of the clip begins with Jean Martin, who...Read Full Story

Samuel Beckett: Works for Radio

By rhystranter on | From apieceofmonologue.com
In a 2007 issue of Hyperion , Mark Daniel Cohen discusses the British Library release of Samuel Beckett's Works for Radio: The Original Broadcasts : Samuel Beckett: Works for Radio: The Original Broadcasts is a four-CD set of recordings of the five works Beckett wrote specifically for radio performance: All That Fall , Embers , Words and Music , Cascando and Rough for Radio . It includes as well a recording of The Old Tune , Beckett’s translation of Robert Pinget’s La Manivelle , and a...Read Full Story

Disjecta: This week's links

By rhystranter on | From apieceofmonologue.com
Your guide to this week's best cultural links There Will Be Blood , shown as part of the Rolling Roadshow film festival Literature: Penguin Books celebrates 75 years J. D. Salinger :  A rare photograph of the reclusive American author, erm, putting on his socks Fyodor Dostoyevsky : Quoted on politics and personal vanity Oxfam Used Books : Summer Sale begins Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg : A collection of their correspondence is published Gabriel Josipovici : Criticism of British novelists...Read Full Story

Billie Whitelaw on Beckett and Play

By rhystranter on | From apieceofmonologue.com
In an autobiography that chronicles twenty-five years as Samuel Beckett's favourite actress, Billie Whitelaw remembers meeting the Irish playwright for the first time: What happened next went like this, but I have to say that I'm taking more than a little poetic licence in reconstructing this event. George Devine had a friend in Paris, a fairly bizarre writer called Samuel Beckett. A play of his had just opened in Germany which had parts for two women and one man. The perfect substitute...Read Full Story

Waiting for Beckett Documentary

By rhystranter on | From apieceofmonologue.com
Rare feature-length documentary on the Nobel Prize-winning writer Samuel Beckett This incredibly rare television documentary includes interviews with a number of Beckett's friends, colleagues and followers. Among those interviewed are: Raymond Federman, Hugh Kenner, Steve Martin, Edward Albee, Stanley Gontarski, John Calder, Barney Rosset and, in a round-a-bout way, Samuel Beckett himself. The film also includes footage of a number of Beckett productions, including Steve Martin and Robin...Read Full Story
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Spiegel OnlineHollywoods HorrorhortSpiegel OnlineBillie Whitelaw, die im Film ein unheimliches Kindermädchen spielte, das sich zum Schutz des Antichrist in dessen Adoptivfamilie einschleicht, war im realen Leben weit weniger auf den Schutz des Jungen bedacht: "Ich wollte ihn einfach erwürgen", ...  
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'The Omen'
'The Omen'WireEven creepier is Mrs. Baylock, who, as portrayed by Billie Whitelaw, has one of the eeriest smiles in cinematic history. It's these subtle touches, in the absence of excess blood and gore, that make “The Omen” so memorably scary. ...  
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