" Fear no more the heat of the sun " is the line that Winnie and her husband are trying to remember in Samuel Beckett's Happy Days as they sit exposed to the elements.

Even Kenneth Tynan, one of the saviours of Godot, felt that Happy Days was " a metaphor extended beyond its capacity ",; nevertheless, he admitted Beckett's strange, insinuating power and urged his readers to buy tickets for the play.

He made his directorial debut with a double bill of Samuel Beckett's Play and Happy Days.

* In 1873, controversy over the depiction of William Ewart Gladstone, Robert Lowe, 1st Viscount Sherbrooke, and Acton Smee Ayrton in W. S. Gilbert and Gilbert Arthur à Beckett's The Happy Land led to the play's licence being revoked by the Lord Chamberlain.

Chaikin directed a number of Beckett's plays, including Endgame at the Manhattan Theatre Club and Happy Days at Cherry Lane Theater.

* Beckett's Happy Days, 2008

Happy Days is part of The Beckett Film Project ( a project aimed at filming all of Beckett's plays ), which includes work by directors David Mamet, Neil Jordan, Anthony Minghella and Atom Egoyan.

She starred as Winnie in Samuel Beckett's Happy Days on stage and on screen as part of the Beckett on Film project, having already played the role in a 1996 production at The Gate Theatre opposite Barry McGovern.

In addition to being a close friend and confident of Artaud during the latter's nine years of internment, he directed the first performances of Beckett's Waiting For Godot, Happy Days and Endgame as well as directing the initial performance of Genet's The Blacks and the controversial The Screens.

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 Catastrophe – dedicated to then-imprisoned Czech dissident playwright Václav Havel, who became president of Czechoslovakia after the 1989 Velvet Revolution – was first performed at the Avignon Festival on July 21, 1982 ; the film version ( in Beckett on Film ) was directed by David Mamet and performed by Harold Pinter, Sir John Gielgud, and Rebecca Pidgeon.

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.

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.

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

In the 1930s, in addition to further major works by Faulkner, Samuel Beckett's published his first major work, the novel Murphy ( 1938 ).

* 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.

This collection featured Samuel Beckett's first commissioned work, the essay " Dante ... Bruno.

It is a mime, Beckett's first ( followed by Act Without Words II ).

* Samuel Beckett's first novel, Dream of Fair to Middling Women, is rejected by several publishers.

* Samuel Beckett's first completed novel Murphy is published.

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.

His first professional theatre production was a musical version of Charles Dicken ’ s Hard Times which he co-wrote and directed at the Belgrade Theatre Coventry, since then occasional theatre work includes in 1985 The Seagull ( also co-translator ) with Vanessa Redgrave, Natasha Richardson and Jonathan Pryce and Samuel Beckett's Endgame ( 2006 ) with Kenneth Cranham and Peter Dinklage which opened at the Gate Theatre, Dublin on Samuel Beckett's 100th birthday and later transferred to the Barbican.

He was also Samuel Beckett's first literary agent.

The first three books from the press, Reavey's own Nostradam ( 1932 ) and Signes d ' Adieu and Beckett's Echo's Bones and Other Precipitates ( both 1935 ).

Selections from Samuel Beckett's novel Molloy appeared in the fifth issue, one of his first publications in English.

* Samuel Beckett's first novel, Dream of Fair to Middling Women, is finally published.

* 23 August-Samuel Beckett's play The Old Tune ( a translation of Pinget ’ s La Manivelle into a Dublin setting ) is first broadcast, by the BBC.

* Samuel Beckett's monologue Krapp's Last Tape first performed by Patrick Magee at the Royal Court Theatre, London ( 28 October ).

* January 5-Samuel Beckett's play Waiting For Godot has its first public stage première in French as En attendant Godot in Paris.

) Michael is the result of the first successful test of Dr. Carson Beckett's retrovirus, which suppresses iratus bug DNA in the Wraith genome.

The first B-side is a cover of British progressive rock band Beckett's " Rainbow's Gold ".

Born without the ATA gene, McKay volunteers to be the first human subject for Dr. Beckett's gene therapy and becomes the carrier of an artificial ATA gene of his own.

Though always commercially minded, his spirit of adventure endured with the first London production of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot and sponsorship of Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop.

It also included a story of Samuel Beckett's Dante and the Lobster, the first of his many appearances in Evergreen's pages ; these continued through the last issue published.

He appeared onstage in the original production of Brendan Behan's The Quare Fellow, and gained his first major career attention in Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape at the Dublin's Abbey Theatre in 1959.