Influenced especially by Jerzy Grotowski's teaching and Beckett's work, Mabou Mines went on to produce experimental theater pieces like Breuer's Red Horse Animationpieces that resulted from intense collaboration and improvisation, and incorporated elements of visual art, dance, mime, puppetry, and music.

Other notable examples include Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d ' Urbervilles, in which Tess is destined to the miserable death that she is confronted with at the end of the novel ; Samuel Beckett's Endgame ; the popular short story " The Monkey's Paw " by W. W. Jacobs.

Other postmodern examples of poioumena include Samuel Beckett's trilogy ( Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable ); Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook ; John Fowles's Mantissa ; William Golding's Paper Men ; and Gilbert Sorrentino's Mulligan Stew.

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

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

But to me Beckett's writing had seemed permeated with love for human beings and with a kind of humor that I could reconcile neither with despair nor with nihilism.

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.

Waiting for Godot is Beckett's translation of his own original French version, En attendant Godot, and is subtitled ( in English only ) " a tragicomedy in two acts ".

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.

Dukore finally sees Beckett's play as a metaphor for the futility of man's existence when salvation is expected from an external entity, and the self is denied introspection.

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.

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.

Foucault would subsequently experience a groundbreaking self-revelation when watching a Parisian performance of Samuel Beckett's new play, Waiting for Godot, in 1953.

He has also appeared in Seán O ' Casey's Juno and the Paycock at Gaiety Theatre, Dublin, and fulfilled a lifetime ambition when taking to the stage of the Irish capital's Abbey Theatre in 1970 to perform in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot alongside Donal McCann.

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.

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

Many of Beckett's plays devalue language for the sake of the striking tableau.

Much of the dialogue in Absurdist drama ( especially in Beckett's and Albee's plays, for example ) reflects this kind of evasiveness and inability to make a connection.

In many of Beckett's later plays, most features are stripped away and what's left is a minimalistic tableau: a woman walking slowly back and forth in Footfalls, for example, or in Breath only a junk heap on stage and the sounds of breathing.

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.

In recent years, films such as Dancing at Lughnasa ( 1998 ), Plunkett & Macleane ( 1998 ), and Sleepy Hollow ( 1999 ), as well as television appearances in series such as Wives and Daughters ( 1999 ) ( for which he won another BAFTA ), a made-for-TV adaptation of Samuel Beckett's Endgame ( 2001 ) and Perfect Strangers ( 2001 ) have revealed a talent for comedy.

In 2006 he played Henry in Stephen Rea's play about Samuel Beckett's Embers for Radio 3.

Similarly, Esslin cites early film comedians and music hall artists such as Charlie Chaplin, The Keystone Cops and Buster Keaton as direct influences ( Keaton even starred in Beckett's Film in 1965 ).

In 2005 he composed the original music for a stage production of Samuel Beckett's Cascando.

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

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

Due to Dr. Carson Beckett's efforts in treating many Genii of radiation sickness, including Ladon's sister, his new Genii government is more favorable towards Atlantis.

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.

McKay takes Dr. Beckett's death in " Sunday " quite badly.

Dr. Beckett's character arc begins in the pilot episode " Rising ".

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.

When Beckett's name came into the discussion, the priest grew loud and told me that Beckett `` hates life ''.

Beckett's appearance is rough-hewn Irish.

Beckett's own work is an example.

A childhood friend ( and distant relative ) of W. S. Gilbert, Beckett briefly feuded with Gilbert in 1869, but the two patched up the friendship, and Gilbert even later collaborated on projects with Beckett's brother.

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.

Unlike elsewhere in Beckett's work, no bicycle appears in this play, but Hugh Kenner in his essay " The Cartesian Centaur " reports that Beckett once, when asked about the meaning of Godot, mentioned " a veteran racing cyclist, bald, a ' stayer ,' recurrent placeman in town-to-town and national championships, Christian name elusive, surname Godeau, pronounced, of course, no differently from Godot.

This, some feel, is an inevitable consequence of Beckett's rhythms and phraseology, but it is not stipulated in the text.

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.

" 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.

He played the central role in Samuel Beckett's Film ( 1965 ), directed by Alan Schneider.