Barry's Heritage ; Robert Glenn's adaptation of John Steinbeck's The Long Valley ; Tom Rothfield's Chekov in Love ; and in 1984, her highly acclaimed production of Samuel Beckett's new plays Ohio Impromptu, Catastrophe, and What Where, directed by Alan Schneider, which later she presented at The 1985 Edinburgh Festival and in London.

In 1984, she starred opposite Donald Davis in Beckett's one act play Catastrophe at the Edinburgh International Festival.

The script calls for Estragon to sit on a low mound but in practice – as in Beckett's own 1975 German production – this is usually a stone.

Much of Beckett's work – including Godot – is often considered by philosophical and literary scholars to be part of the movement of the Theatre of the Absurd, a form of theatre which stemmed from the Absurdist philosophy of Albert Camus.

Much can be read into Beckett's inclusion of the story of the two thieves from Luke 23: 39 – 43 and the ensuing discussion of repentance.

* January 5 – Samuel Beckett's play Waiting For Godot has its first public stage première in French as En attendant Godot at the Théâtre de Babylone in Paris.

His career included running the Arts Theatre between 1956 – 1959 — where he directed the English language première of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot.

Beckett's 2 – 0 record and 1. 93 ERA against the Cleveland Indians in the ALCS earned him the 2007 ALCS MVP Award, and he started and won the first game of the 2007 World Series against the Colorado Rockies, pitching 7 innings, allowing 1 run on 6 hits, and striking out 9 batters.

In 1980 – 81, David honed his craft touring the country with John Houseman's The Acting Company in productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream and Samuel Beckett's Waiting For Godot.

Roger Blin ( Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, 22 March 1907 – Évecquemont, France, 21 January 1984 ) was a French actor and director notable for directing ( and starring in ) the first production of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot.

Chaikin performed the piece in San Diego, Atlanta, and Parma, Italy, Samuel Beckett's last poem, What Is the Word ?, was written for and dedicated to Chaikin.

Comparisons have also been drawn to Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, for the presence of two central characters who almost appear to be two halves of a single character.

Looking at Beckett's entire œuvre, Mary Bryden observed that " the hypothesised God who emerges from Beckett's texts is one who is both cursed for his perverse absence and cursed for his surveillant presence.

The American poet Sylvia Plath, who was married to Ted Hughes from nearby Mytholmroyd, is buried in the new St. Thomas a ' Beckett's churchyard.

* John Minihan who was Samuel Beckett's official photographer, and was originally from Athy, took a series of world famous photographs of the town.

Miller, who is admittedly homophobic and knows little about AIDS, initially declines to take the case and immediately visits his doctor to find out if he could have contracted the AIDS through shaking Beckett's hand.

In the course of testimony, it is revealed that the partner who had noticed Beckett's lesion had previously worked with a woman who had contracted AIDS after a blood transfusion and so would have recognized the lesion as relating to AIDS.

He played the psychotic killer Jim Beckett, who after his escape from prison sets out on a killing spree that ends with a final showdown with Dacascos and Beckett's ex-wife, played by Missy Crider ; a confrontation that leads to Beckett's ultimate demise.

In the novel Molloy ( 1950 ), Beckett's eponymous character describes himself as " I who had loved the image of old Geulincx, dead young, who left me free, on the black boat of Ulysses, to crawl towards the East, along the deck ".

An early example is the group Mei-no-kai, consisting of kyōgen, Noh, and shingeki actors, who staged Beckett's Waiting for Godot in 1973 ; the kyōgen acting was best received.

* Wraith Queen 2 ( played by Andee Frizzell ) The Queen of a Hive Ship who offers an alliance with Atlantis in " Allies ", having taken in Michael and learned of Carson Beckett's Wraith retrovirus.

McKay, who had developed a close friendship with Beckett, tells Beckett's mother himself.

In " Outsiders ", cloned Beckett hopes to make up for the horrible deeds Michael performed using Beckett's research, and he begins to help humans in the Pegasus Galaxy who were infected with the Hoffan plague.

There is some similarity between the characters A and B and the protagonists of Beckett's Waiting for Godot, Vladimir and Estragon who spend their time in much the same way, engaged in pointless tasks to amuse themselves and while away the time, though ultimately never leading to anything of significance.

This latter chapel became known as the " Corona " or " Beckett's Crown ".

* Carl " Alfalfa " Switzer ( joined in 1935, became Scotty Beckett's replacement in 1936 )

While Harold would eventually be relegated to the role of a background player, Carl, nicknamed " Alfalfa ," eventually became Scotty Beckett's replacement as Spanky's sidekick.

Miller visits Beckett in the hospital after the verdict and overcomes his fear enough to touch Beckett's face.

In 1985, Beckett's longtime American publisher, Barney Rosset, was fired after a buyout of Grove Press.

The medical facilities were under the command of Dr. Carson Beckett, though after Beckett's death, he was replaced by Dr. Jennifer Keller.

Producer Joseph Mallozzi regretted killing off Dr. Beckett after seeing the fans ' reactions, and claimed there was a ' clue ' in a late-season 3 episode that hinted at Beckett's re-introduction.

In 1954 Grove published Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot after it was refused by more mainstream publishers.

After Beckett's death in 1989, Rosset set out to publish Eleutheria in English.

* 1989 Samuel Beckett's Wake & Other Uncollected Prose

Under Ms Lortel's guidance The White Barn premiered plays ( many of which enjoyed successful transfers to commercial theatres ) such as: George C. Wolfe and Lawrence Bearson's Ivory Tower with Eva Marie Saint ( 1947 ); Sean O ' Casey's Red Roses for Me ( 1948 ); Eugene Ionesco's The Chairs ( 1957 ); Archibald MacLeish's This Music Crept by Me Upon the Waters ( 1959 ); Edward Albee's Fam and Yam ( 1960 ); Samuel Beckett's Embers ( 1960 ); Murray Schisgal's The Typists ( 1961 ); Adrienne Kennedy's The Owl Answers ( 1965 ); Norman Rosten's Come Slowly Eden ( 1966 ); Paul Zindel's The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds ( 1966 ); Terrence McNally's Next ( 1967 ); Barbara Wersba's The Dream Watcher starring Eva Le Gallienne ( 1975 ); June Havoc's Nuts for the Underman ( 1977 ); David Allen's Cheapside starring Cherry Jones ( which Ms. Lortel later co-produced at the Half Moon Theatre in London ); and Margaret Sanger's Unfinished Business, starring Eileen Heckart ( 1989 ).

Beckett's only explanation was that he was " fed up with Catullus ".

Beckett's advice to the American director Alan Schneider was: " is a hypomaniac and the only way to play him is to play him mad.

On May 25, 1992 he was featured on the cover of Time with the title " Waiting for Perot ," an allusion to Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot.

The film drew heavily on the ideas of Jan Kott, in particular his observation that King Lear was the precursor of absurdist theatre: in particular, the film has parallels with Beckett's Endgame.

The idea for Bottom was spawned when, in 1991, Edmondson and Mayall co-starred in the West End production of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot at the Queen's Theatre.

In comparison to Sartre's concepts of the function of literature, Samuel Beckett's primary focus was on the failure of man to overcome " absurdity "; as James Knowlson says in Damned to Fame, Beckett's work focuses " on poverty, failure, exile and loss — as he put it, on man as a ' non-knower ' and as a ' non-can-er '.

" Beckett's own relationship with Sartre was complicated by a mistake made in the publication of one of his stories in Sartre's journal Les Temps Modernes.

* Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot was first performed on 5 January 1953 at the Théâtre de Babylone in Paris.

* Beckett's Happy Days was first performed at the Cherry Lane Theatre in New York on 17 September 1961.

Like many of Beckett's works, the play was originally written in French ( Acte sans paroles I ), being translated into English by Beckett himself.

However, according to Percy Birtchnell, one of the reasons for Beckett's fall from grace and assassination was his overspend on Berkhamsted Castle which stretched the kings finances.

The filmed version differs from Beckett's original script but with his approval since he was on set all the time, this being his only visit to the United States.

About a month later, Beckett came under fire for not responding quickly enough to the 2006 Lebanon war, which saw Israel invade the country, although some reports suggested that the delay was caused by Cabinet division rather than Mrs Beckett's reluctance to make a public statement on the matter.

A somewhat more mixed ( comedy / dramatic ) role was his portrayal of the philosophical ( yet hapless ) tramp, Vladimir, in a notable TV production of Beckett's Waiting for Godot with Zero Mostel and Kurt Kasznar.

Beckett's major league debut was on September 4, 2001, against the Chicago Cubs, in which he gave up one hit over six shutout innings.

However the final choice of design was determined by a storm during which the " Swiss Roll " was washed away and the " Hippos " were undermined while Beckett's floating roadway ( subsequently codenamed ' Whale ') survived undamaged.

Beckett's design was adopted and 10 miles of Whale roadway were manufactured under the management of J. D. Bernal and Brigadier Bruce White, under the orders of Churchill.

The Navy was dismissive of Beckett's claims for his anchor's holding ability so Kite anchors were not used for mooring the Bombardons.

It was inspired by Beckett's experience of listening