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DARK SECRETS: 4 - The Real Truth

Stephen Tompkinson stars as playwright Samuel Beckett in first show since trial

The British actor was cleared of inflicting GBH earlier this month.

The Independent UK

Brickbats: June 2023

News of politicians, police, and bureaucrats behaving badly from around the world.

Reason

The week in theatre: August in England; Blue Now; The Vortex – review

Lenny Henry draws his audience deep into the life – and its shattering – of a Windrush evictee; Derek Jarman’s final film is reverentially revisited; and Lia Williams and son ignite Noël Coward at his darkest

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Man 'mortified' as hotel restaurant refuses to let him in because of his outfit

Samuel Beckett and Samantha Hyde were staying at the Lifehouse Spa and Hotel near the Essex coastal town of Frinton-on-Sea over the Coronation weekend when the incident occured

Daily Mirror

Dennis Potter script discovered that casts new light on The Singing Detective

Unknown work The Last Television play found in writer’s archive features scenes that later appeared in BBC series

The Guardian - UK

Happy Days review – Judith Lucy is wonderfully disturbing in Samuel Beckett’s masterpiece

Sumner Theatre, Melbourne Theatre CompanyThe former stand-up is a natural fit for the role of Winnie, a tragic woman attempting to stave off hopelessness in the face of great horror

The Guardian - AU

Judith Lucy draws upon parents' dysfunctional relationship to bring to life Samuel Beckett's Happy Days at Melbourne Theatre Company

Having quit stand-up last year, the comedian is making her theatre debut — playing a character she understands on a 'gut level', because she reminds her of her mother.

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Brickbat: Wait a Little Bit Longer

A production of "Waiting for Godot" at the University of Groningen, a public university in the Netherlands, has been canceled after university officials found out only men had been auditioned for the cast. All of the characters in the play are men. A university spokesperson acknowledged that author Samuel Beckett…

Reason

Pelé’s name, Greta’s email and Wednesday’s song – take the Thursday quiz

Fifteen questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes every Thursday. How will you fare?

The Guardian - UK

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

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

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Evening Standard

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,…

The Guardian - UK

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

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 National (Scotland)

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…

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The Guardian - UK

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

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."

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