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Krapp's Last Tape by Samuel Beckett, Gate Theatre
(Irish Theatre Magazine, 2010)
It took Samuel Beckett about three weeks to write Krapp’s Last Tape. During that time, the play went through seven
distinct stages which, according to the scholarship, involved a gradual stripping away of sentimentality: ...
Oenone and Colin Clout
(Edinburgh University Press, 2016-11)
Spenser's Shepheardes Calender was still a new work, not even yet publicly acknowledged by its author, when George Peele made the rather surprising decision to co-opt its central character and reanimate Colin Clout onstage ...
The Last Summer by Declan Hughes: programme note for Gate Theatre, Dublin
(Gate Theatre, 2012)
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All that Fall by Samuel Beckett, Pan Pan Theatre Company
(Irish Theatre Magazine, 2011)
The first thing to say about Pan Pan’s performance of Beckett’s 1956 radio play is this: if you’re planning on going to it, please don’t
read this review – it would be a shame to spoil the surprise that awaits you.
And ...
Shakespeare and the Irish Writer edited by Janet Clare and Stephen O Neill
(Irish Theatre Magazine, 2010)
Shakespeare, wrote Ben Jonson, was both the “soul of the age” and “for all time”. His work, that is, encapsulated the life of
his society – but it also transcended space and time, acquiring universal importance. That ...