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Samuel Beckett: A Twentieth-Century Masters Tribute/An Evening of Fiction and Theater. Presented by: PEN American Center Monday, December 9, 2002, at 8 p.m. The Town Hall, featuring: Maria Aitken, Edward Albee, Paul Auster, Tom Bishop, Katherine Borowitz, Peter Carey, Mel Gussow, Israel Horovitz, Bill Irwin, Rosaleen Linehan, Christopher Ricks, Richard Seaver, Marian Seldes, John Turturro. Curated by Mel Gussow.
Rorschach Productions presented four plays by Beckett and Sam Shepard. In its inaugural offering, Rorschach staged Catastrophe, Breath, (Beckett), Red Cross, and Cowboys #2 (Shepard) at the Buntport Theatre, Denver. Beginning November 29th and running through December 22nd.
Post Theatre Company presented Oh les beaux jours (Happy Days), Beckett's translation of the play from his original English language version, directed by Jon Fraser, November 22-24, 2002. Little Theatre, C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University, 720 Northern Blvd., Brookville, New York.
Dramo Dramaturgy and Movement, a dance theater in Caracas, Venezuela, developed a choreographic version of En attendant Godot/Waiting for Godot, in November in Caracas. For information, contact, Leyson Ponce, Choreographer at leyson@telcel.net.ve
Centro Dramátivo de Évora (Évora Dramatic Centre - Portugal) performed three plays by Beckett, directed by Julio Castronuovo: Rockaby, Act without words II, Not I. From november 7 to november 22.
The Arena Theatre on the campus of CSULA presented Cliff DeYoung in the Works of Samuel Beckett, an anthology of 17 excerpts from Beckett's drama and fiction woven into a coninuous 80-minute monologue. Originally compiled by Jack MacGowran in 1962, and it had not beenseen in the U.S. for over 30 years. It ran from November 1-16.
The Cherry Lane Theatre, home of the world premiere of Happy Days (on September 17th, 1961), staged a reprise September 29 through October 27. Director Joseph Chaikin, and actors Joyce Aaron and Ron Faber. The Cherry Lane Theatre website is www.cherrylanetheatre.com.
Company of Fools presentedWaiting for Godot, October 10 through November 3rd at the Liberty Theatre in Hailey. The cast, under Rusty Wilson's direction and assistant direction by Laine Satterfield, featured Andrew Alburger, Paul Bauman, Anthony Henderson, Richard Rush and Manny Santiago. Set Design by Dennis Rexroad, who designed the Company's production of Dinner With Friends, James Joyce's The Dead, True West, Side Man and The Seagull. This was a Back Alley Production.
California University of Pennsylvania's Department of Theatre and Dance presented Catastrophe. Performance with installation video, directed by Ryan Gialames. October 25th and 26th.
Theatre UCF at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida, presented Waiting for Godot on Stage 2. October 3 through 13.
The Gare St Lazare Players presented, in The Royal National Theatre's Platforms Series, ... Lessness by Samuel Beckett, directed by Judy Hegarty, performed by Olwen Fouéré. Opened in the Cottesloe Theatre on Friday 25 September (previewed 24 September) to Oct. 4
Kitchen Dog Theater presentedHappy Days at The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas. Production directed by Bobbi Masters, featuring Shelley Tharp-Payton and David Middleman. Opened Sept. 14, closed Sunday, October 13.
Broken Umbrella/Uninvited Guests in association with Our Shoes are Red, a theater laboratory and Muhlenberg College presented Waiting for Godot August 24-27, 2002, in the Trexler Pavillion for Theater and Dance at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Sons of Beckett Theatre Company presented Waiting For Godot at the Raven Playhouse In North Hollywood, Ca. The show is directed by J. Wienckowski and ran from August 2 - September 1, 2001. Admission is $15.00.
Bare Cheek Theatre Company presented the Irish première of A Is for Everything, a play featuring two women in Beckett's life, Lucia Joyce and Suzanne Deschevaux-Dumesnil. The play is by Caitlin Murphy and directed by Tony McCleane-Fay with Gemma Poole, Rose Marie van Gaalen. Opened at the WEXFORD ARTS CENTRE the 17th to the 20th of July and the 27th of JULY to the 3rd of August @ 8:15PM. The 26th of July is Lucia Day, a Special Gala in aid of "Schizophrenia Ireland" a Project Supported by the Arts Council of Ireland. The piece will also be available to tour internationally from Aug. 2002. For information, call (01)6796622.
Gare St Lazare Players continue The Beckett Trilogy:Molloy, Malone Dies & The Unnamable. The shows are made up of extracts from the novels performed by Conor Lovett and directed by Judy Hegarty. www.garestlazareplayers.com for details. The Trilogy will tour Europe, theUSA & Canada in the next 18 months and are currently seeking bookings. Founded in Chicago in 1983 the international company now divides its time between France and Ireland. For info, write loverty@lineone.net
Fugue theatre, through special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service and Chasama, presented Waiting for Godot at Chashama Experimental Theatre in New York City from July 6, 2002 through July 28, 2002. Richard Hutzler is Artistic Director of fugue theatre, an off-off-Broadway independent theatre company dedicated to performing classic works of the 20th Century.
The English Drama Group of the Technical University of Dresden premiered Waiting for Godot on July 4. The play wasgiven every day until (and including) July 14. Performances took place at the "bühne," the small student's theatre of the Technical University of Dresden.
The Brown Cow Company, Peter Pazmany University, Hungary finished a successful spring 2002 series of performances Play. The company won Best Actress & second Best Performance awards, was nominated for the Best Actor and Special Award for Lighting Technician at the Let`s Rock the Stage Festival in Poland. They also won Best Performance, Third Best Actor, Special Award for Light Technician, & two nominatons for Best Actress at the Central European English Theatre Festival of Universities in Debrecen, Hungary.
Ohio University¿s Forum Theatre presented Circus Beckett, May 15-18, and 25, 2002. The production was directed by Andrew Manly and featured many of Beckett's works, performed under a circus theme.
Seattle Repertory Theatre presented Texts For Nothing with Bill Irwin, through May 26th. This is the same production as was mounted by ACT.
HERE Arts Center at 145 Sixth Avenue (bet. Spring & Broome Sts.), NYC, presented ... and then you go on. An Anthology of the Works of SAMUEL BECKETT for 4 weeks between April 24th and May 19th, 2002. Adapted and performed by Bob Jaffe and directed by Peter Wallace, this anthology had its premiere in January, 2000 at the Perishable Performing Arts Center in Providence, RI and a subsequent run in May/June, 2001 in the Unicorn Theatre at the Berkshire Theatre Festival, Stockbridge, MA.
Auros Group for New Music, a non-profit chamber ensemble in the midst of its tenth season, and as the final concert of this anniversary celebration, held a Beckett celebration with a pre-concert screening of Beckett's Film with Buster Keaton. The concert included a performance of Quad as well as MIT Composition Professor Peter Child's chamber opera Embers. The event took place on May 17 beginning at 7:30 at Pickman Concert Hall at the the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, MA.
Antoine Reeves performed Krapps Last Tape at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in the Round on 1st May, 2002, at 7.45.
Waiting for Godot was at the Gateway Theatre in Chester in April.
Beckett in Die. In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the premiere of Catastrophe, the play that Beckett wrote for Vaclav Havel, Rick Cluchey's San Quentin Drama Workshop, in collaboration with Jacques Coutureau's Les Oiseaux de Passage company, performed three of Beckett's short plays on April 2, 2002, in the town of Die, in the Drôme. Cluchey himself both directed and performed in all three plays, including a staged version of Dis Joe, Ohio Impromptu (with Cluchey as Listener and Charles Krance as Reader), and Catastrophe, in which Rick wasjoined by two members of Les Oiseaux de Passage. This performance was sponsored by the Association Festival Est-Ouest in Die.
The Menlo School in Atherton, CA. (50 Valparaiso Ave, Atherton, CA, 94027) presented Waiting for Godot April 4-8, 2002. The show was directed by Tripp Robbins in partial fulfillment of his Master of Arts in Theatre Directing through the Chicago College of Performing Arts.
The Vagabond Acting Troupe presented Desinence: Nothing is More Real than Nothing - six plays by Beckett (Rockabye, Footfalls, Come and Go, Catastrophe, Act Without Words II, and Ohio Impromptu) at Second Stage at the Adrienne Theatre, Philadelphia, March 8-23, 2002.
Syzygistic Ink presented Lucia Mad by Don Nigro, March 14-24 2002 at the 24th Street Theatre in L.A. [The play is about James Joyce and Sam Beckett]
PHILIFOR & PHILIMOR presented Endgame,directed by Jeff larson, at Walkerspace, 46 walker st.,in Manhattan. Danny Brink-Washington (Nagg), Alex Gedeon (Hamm), Michelle Rosenfield (Nell), Zachary Steel (Clov) from March 20-30th.
Center for Contemporary Performance at Clark University, Worcester, MA presented: "Triptych: Three works by Samuel Beckett": Krapp's Last Tape, Footfalls, Ohio Impromptu, directed by Ray Munro. January 25 and 26, Little Center Theatre,Clark University.
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