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Samuel Beckett

SAMUEL BECKETT   (1906 - 1989)

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Plays by Samuel Beckett

SAMUEL BECKETT

Act Without Words (Acte Sans Parole)

1st Produced:

Royal Court Theatre Sloane Square, London SW1W 8AS >>>

02 Apr 1957

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Grove Press, New York, 1958

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Mime playlet

Parts:

Male

1

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

A man alternates success and failure whilst attempting certain actions

Further Reference:

Wearing 57.60


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SAMUEL BECKETT

Act Without Words II

1st Produced:

New York

1959

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

in "Krapp's Last Tape and Other Dramatic Pieces", Grove Press, New York, 1960

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Mime One Act

Parts:

Male

2

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Contrasts actions of the two actors as they attempt certain actions

Further Reference:

-


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SAMUEL BECKETT

All That Fall

1st Produced:

Santa Barbara, California

1965

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Grove Press, New York, 1957

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

6

Female

2

Parts other:

1b 1g

Notes:

broadcast 1957

Synopsis:

Old woman visiting railway station imagines the worst when the train is delayed.

Further Reference:

-


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SAMUEL BECKETT

Breath

1st Produced:

Eden Theatre, New York City

16 Jun 1969

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

in "Breath and Other Shorts", Faber, London, 1971

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

25 second Review

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Breath is a notably short stage work by Samuel Beckett. An altered version was first included in Kenneth Tynan's revue Oh! Calcutta!, at the Eden Theatre in New York City on June 16, 1969. The UK premiere was at the Close Theatre Club in Glasgow in October 1969; this was the first performance of the text as written. The second performance, and the English premiere, was at a benefit held at the Oxford Playhouse on March 8, 1970. The first accurate publication appeared in Gambit 4.16 (1969): 59, with a manuscript facsimile.

Synopsis:

It consists of the sound of an instant of recorded vagitus (a birth-cry), followed by an amplified recording of somebody slowly inhaling and exhaling accompanied by an increase and decrease in the intensity of the light. There is then a second identical cry, and the piece ends. No people are seen on stage, but Beckett states that it should be "littered with miscellaneous rubbish." He did specify however that there were to be no verticals, the rubbish was to be all scattered and lying.

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SAMUEL BECKETT

But The Clouds

1st Produced:

BBC2

17 Apr 1977

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

in "Ends and Odds: Plays and Sketches", Faber, London, 1977

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

television play

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

part od Shades

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

-


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SAMUEL BECKETT

Cascando

1st Produced:

London

1970

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

in "Play and Two Short Pieces for Radio", Faber, London, 1964

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

2 unidentified characters

Notes:

broadcast in French 1963

Synopsis:

An individuals increasing isolation with old age portrayed by two voices and music

Further Reference:

-


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SAMUEL BECKETT

Catastrophe

1st Produced:

Avignon

1982

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

in "Collected Shorter Plays", Faber, London, 1984

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

n/a

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

-


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SAMUEL BECKETT

Come And Go

1st Produced:

Dublin

1968

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Calder & Boyers, London, 1967

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

-

Female

3

Parts other:

-

Notes:

aka Kommen und Gehen (Berlin,1966), as Va et vient (Paris, 1966)

Synopsis:

Three women reminisce about their times at school and rekindle and affirm old friendships

Further Reference:

-


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SAMUEL BECKETT

Eh Joe

1st Produced:

New York

1978

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

in "Eh Joe and Other Writings", Faber, London, 1967

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

1

Female

1

Parts other:

-

Notes:

televised 1966

Synopsis:

The thought of the nearness of death brings on feelings of remorse in a man in his late fifties.

Further Reference:

-


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SAMUEL BECKETT

Embers

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Faber and Faber, London, 1959

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

3

Female

1

Parts other:

-

Notes:

broadcast 1959

Synopsis:

During ramblings of an old couple a mundane situation is transformed into a drama.

Further Reference:

-


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SAMUEL BECKETT

Endgame

1st Produced:

Royal Court Theatre Sloane Square, London SW1W 8AS >>>

02 Apr 1957

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Grove Press, New York, 1958

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Fantasy One Act

Parts:

Male

2

Female

2

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Fin de partie: suivi de Acte sans paroles (London 1957); music by John Beckett. As Endgame New York 1958

Synopsis:

The four characters of the play are trapped in a room where they await their deaths.

Further Reference:

Wearing 57.61; 58.272


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SAMUEL BECKETT

Film

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

in "Cascando and Other Short Dramatic Pieces", Grove Press, New York, 1969

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Screenplay

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

2characters

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

-


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SAMUEL BECKETT

First Love

1st Produced:

Etcetera Theatre, London >>>

1997

Company:

Theatre Dark

1st Published:

I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

55 min One Act

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

First Love is one of Samuel Beckett's earliest post-war novellas and contains much of the author's special brand of black humour and uncomfortable truths. The narrator, expelled on the death of his father from his room, takes refuge on a bench by a canal and meets a woman who takes him home. The events that follow are hilariously terrible

Further Reference:

-


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SAMUEL BECKETT

Footfalls

1st Produced:

London

1976

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Faber and Faber, London, 1976

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

n/a

Parts:

Male

-

Female

1

Parts other:

voice

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

-


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SAMUEL BECKETT

Ghost Trio

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

in "Ends and Odds: Eight New Dramatic Pieces", Grove Press, New York, 1976

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

T.V. Play

Parts:

Male

1

Female

1

Parts other:

voice

Notes:

televised as Tryst, 1976

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

-


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SAMUEL BECKETT

Happy Days

1st Produced:

New York

1961

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Grove Press, New York, 1961

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Tragi Comedy Tragedy

Parts:

Male

1

Female

1

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

While Gogo and Didi are only psychologically unable to leave the appointed rendezvous site and while Hamm is confined to his wheelchair in a closed room, Winnie is actually buried to the waist in earth that seems to be drawing her downward. Elaborately constructed routines occupy her time and her mind and make it possible for her to endure the hopelessness of her situation. In the second act Winnie is buried to her neck and must rely solely on the resources of her mind. The situation grotesquely echoes Descartes' famous "Cogito ergo sum" ("I think, therefore I am"). In Act I, Winnie is buried to the waist in earth; a scorching sun beats down. A bell summons Winnie to her day's activities, which begin with a prayer. As a defence against the infinitude of time, she has devised a series of routines: making an inventory of her possessions, doing her toilette, recalling the past, inventing stories, trying to remember snatches of poetry, and conversing with the generally unresponsive Willie, who dwells in a nearby hole just within her range of vision. Successful efforts of memory or an occasional word extracted from Willie convince her that it has been a happy day after all. The climax of this particular day comes when the sight of an ant stimulates Willie to a pun on "formication," making the couple laugh. In Act II, Winnie is embedded up to her neck, and her all-important physical routines are now impossible. Her memory seems to have deteriorated, but she perseveres in fabricating stories and prattles on to the now-absent Willie. Because Winnie can no longer turn her head to see him, she may be unaware that he is gone, but soon he reappears dressed in morning clothes and crawling toward her. Winnie joyfully begins humming the "Merry Widow" waltz, but whether Willie means to kiss her or is merely groping for the revolver that lies on the nearby ground remains undisclosed as the curtain falls.

Further Reference:

Theatre Record Volume XXXI (2011) Issue 11 Page 598


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SAMUEL BECKETT

Kid, Le

1st Produced:

Dublin

1931

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

-


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SAMUEL BECKETT

Krapp's Last Tape

1st Produced:

Royal Court Theatre Sloane Square, London SW1W 8AS >>>

28 Oct 1958

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Faber and Faber, London, 1959

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Play One Act

Parts:

Male

1

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

A man listens to a tape recording of his memories as he reflects on the meaning of life.

Further Reference:

Wearing 58.273


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SAMUEL BECKETT

Lessness

1st Produced:

Cottesloe Theatre, National Theatre, London >>>

2002

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

-


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SAMUEL BECKETT

Molloy

1st Produced:

Riverside, London >>>

1998

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

n/a

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Conor Lovett From Beckett

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

-


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SAMUEL BECKETT

Noho Theatre Co In Kyogen

1st Produced:

Tricycle Theatre, London >>>

1982

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

-


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SAMUEL BECKETT

Not I

1st Produced:

New York

1972

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Faber and Faber, London, 1973

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Sketch

Parts:

Male

1

Female

1

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

this eloquent and haunting short play has been hailed as a masterpiece of its genre. Employing a stream of consciousness technique, it combines seemingly disjointed fragments of memory and poetic resonances into a rich and revealing mosaic of the longings, doubts, and frailties underlying the human condition

Further Reference:

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SAMUEL BECKETT

Oh Les Beaux Jours

1st Produced:

Riverside, London >>>

1997

Company:

French Theatre Season

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

n/a

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Revival

Further Reference:

-


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SAMUEL BECKETT

Oh! Calcutta!

1st Produced:

Eden Theatre, Off Broadway, NY

1969

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#67626

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Genre:

Musical

Parts:

Male

8

Female

5

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Conceived by Kenneth Tynan; Contributions by Samuel Beckett, Jules Feiffer, Dan Greenburg, John Lennon, Jacques Levy, Leonard Melfi, David Newman, Robert Benton, Sam Shepard, Clovis Trouille, Kenneth Tynan and Sherman Yellen; Music and Lyrics, The Open Window: Robert Dennis, Peter Schickele and Stanley Walden; Musical Director: Norman Bergen

Synopsis:

Oh! Calcutta! was a long-running avant-garde theatrical revue, created by British drama critic Kenneth Tynan. The show, consisting of various sketches on sex-related topics, debuted in Off-Broadway in 1969. It proved, once again, that sex sells, running in London for over 2,400 performances, and in New York for over 1,600. The show sparked considerable controversy at the time, because it featured extended scenes of total nudity, both male and female. The title is taken from a painting by Clovis Trouille, itself a pun on "O quel cul t'as!", French for "What an ass you have!". Tynan had hoped that Harold Pinter would direct the production, in order to give it avant-garde legitimacy, but Pinter declined. (The original director was Jacques Levy, remembered by most now as the songwriting partner of Bob Dylan on his album Desire.) Most of the sketches (written, amongst others, by Nobel prize winner Samuel Beckett, John Lennon, Sam Shepard, Edna O'Brien, Jules Feiffer, and Tynan himself) featured the cast naked (including Bill Macy). Peter Schickele (aka 'PDQ Bach'), Robert Dennis and Stanley Walden were the revue's composers, known as The Open Window. A pay-per-view video production played on closed-circuit TV in select cities in 1971, and in 1972 a motion picture version was also released - in both cases many cities and municipalities banned its showing. A 1976 Broadway revival at the Edison Theatre ran for thirteen years, briefly becoming the longest-running play in Broadway history, with a total of 5,959 performances.
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SAMUEL BECKETT

Ohio Impromptu

1st Produced:

Columbus Ohio

1981

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

in "Rockaby and Other Short Pieces", Grove Press, New York, 1981

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

n/a

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

-


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SAMUEL BECKETT

Old Tune, The

1st Produced:

Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, UK >>>

1964

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Minuit, Paris, 1960

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#2554

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Genre:

40 min One Act

Parts:

Male

2

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Original Playwright - Robert Pinget (La Manivelle); Broadcast 1960

Synopsis:

two old timers run into each other, as the traffic roars around them, they get talking about their youth. The point is that their memories conflict, the past they long to hang onto is fragile, and they are neither comfortable in the present nor secure in the past

Further Reference:

-


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SAMUEL BECKETT

Piece Of Monologue, A

1st Produced:

New York

1980

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

in "Rockaby and Other Short Pieces", Grove Press, New York, 1981

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Monologue Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

1

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

-


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SAMUEL BECKETT

Play

1st Produced:

New York

1964

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

in "Play and Two Short Pieces for Radio", Faber, London, 1964

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

One Act

Parts:

Male

1

Female

2

Parts other:

-

Notes:

aka Spiel (Ulm-Donau, 1963)

Synopsis:

A couple and the man's mistress, in funeral urns, recall their marriage triangle

Further Reference:

-


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SAMUEL BECKETT

Quad

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

in "Collected Shorter Plays", Faber, London, 1984

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

n/a

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

televised 1982

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

-


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SAMUEL BECKETT

Rockaby

1st Produced:

Buffalo, New York

1981

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

in "Rockaby and Other Short Pieces", Grove Press, New York, 1981

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

n/a

Parts:

Male

-

Female

1

Parts other:

recorded voice

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

-


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SAMUEL BECKETT

Rough For Radio

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

in "Ends and Odds: Eight New Dramatic Pieces", Grove Press, New York, 1976

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Short Sketch One Act

Parts:

Male

1

Female

1

Parts other:

-

Notes:

broadcast 1976, aka Radio II

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

-


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SAMUEL BECKETT

Rough I

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page.

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#2560

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Genre:

Short Play One Act

Parts:

Male

1

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

part of Roughs For Theatre I & II

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

-


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SAMUEL BECKETT

Rough II

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#2561

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Genre:

Short Play One Act

Parts:

Male

2

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

part of Roughs For Theatre I & II

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

-


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SAMUEL BECKETT

Roughs For Theatre I & II

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

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ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

Two Short Plays

Parts:

Male

2

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

Rough I and Rough II

Synopsis:

an exchange between a blind man and a cripple.

Further Reference:

-


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SAMUEL BECKETT

That Time

1st Produced:

London

1976

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Faber and Faber, London, 1976

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#2563

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Genre:

n/a

Parts:

Male

-

Female

1

Parts other:

3 voices

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

-


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SAMUEL BECKETT

Theatre I And II

1st Produced:

London

1985

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

in "Ends and Odds: Eight New Dramatic Pieces", Grove Press, New York, 1976

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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#2564

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Genre:

n/a

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

-

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

-


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SAMUEL BECKETT

Waiting For Godot

1st Produced:

Arts Theatre Club, London

03 May 1955

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

Grove Press, New York, 1954

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

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Genre:

TragiComedy Tragedy

Parts:

Male

4

Female

-

Parts other:

1b

Notes:

En Attendant Godot (Babylone, Paris, 05 Jan 1953)

Synopsis:

The NY World-Telegram describes: "GODOT cannot be compared to any other theater work, because its purpose is so different. Two dilapidated bums fill their days as painlessly as they can. They wait for Godot, a personage who will explain their interminable insignificance, or put an end to it. They are resourceful, with quarrels and their dependence on each other, as children are. They pass the time 'which would have passed anyway.' A brutal man of means comes by, leading a weakling slave who does his bidding like a mechanical doll. Later on he comes back, blind, and his slave is mute, but the relationship is unchanged. Every day a child comes from the unknown Godot, and evasively puts the big arrival off until tomorrow. . .It is a tragic view. Yet, in performance, most of it is brilliant, bitter comedy. . .It is a portrait of the dogged resilience of a man's spirit in the face of little hope."

Further Reference:

Wearing 55.157


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SAMUEL BECKETT

What Where

1st Produced:

New York

1983

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

in "Collected Shorter Plays", Faber, London, 1984

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

doollee no

#2566

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Genre:

n/a

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

-

Notes:

as Was Wo (Graz, Germany, 1983)

Synopsis:

Further Reference:

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SAMUEL BECKETT

Words And Music

1st Produced:

- - -

- - -

Company:

n/a

1st Published:

in "Play and Two Short Pieces for Radio", Faber, London, 1964

ISBN/ASIN:

-

Music:

-

doollee no

#2567

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Genre:

Play/Drama

Parts:

Male

-

Female

-

Parts other:

2 unidentified characters

Notes:

broadcast 1962, music by John Beckett

Synopsis:

Old ages inherent loneliness is dramatised using two voices

Further Reference:

-


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