News about Samuel Beckett

MARMION TRAIL: Sophia Chetin-Leuner's latest play, This Might Not Be It, is sadly timely after this week's sad news of a growing crisis affecting children's mental health care services. It is, on the other hand, a sweetly hopeful, broom cupboard drama set in a children's and adolescent outpatient department. Angela and Jay, a double act of an old-lag receptionist and a young idealist, are in the spotlight. 'Refer, refer, refer' is Angela's personal filing scheme.'

MAIL COMMENT: Samuel Beckett, the nigma and enigmatic Irish playwright, called to announce on the coming year, but they say no one was happy.' Zero.' He probably knew that optimism was a risky strategy at the best of times as a wartime French Resistance courier and lifelong cricket fan. Can we, should we say the same for 2024? We certainly don't have that luxury. Thousands of us will have the ability to influence events in the coming year, a major source of pride due to the tense choice between two fundamentally different branches of government, which we will be able to make at the ballot box. In fact, this year is especially pivotal for the English-speaking world, as both Britain and the United States face high-stakes general elections. This hasn't happened since 1992, when John Major pulled off his surprise defeat of Neil Kinnock in the same year that Bill Clinton denied George Bush senior the second term.

EXCLUSIVE: An enraged visitor told how she and her partner were refused admission to a luxurious hotel's restaurant because he was wearing open toe sandals. Samantha Hyde, 34, said she was left'mortified and ashamed' after the establishment's'scruffy restaurant manager' insisted that they were not allowed to dine with other guests due to partner Samuel Beckett's inappropriate footwear. Since the couple's 7.30pm dinner reservation was cancelled and hastily rescheduled for 6 p.m., he refused admission.

Waiting for Godot will be held at the University of Groningen's Usva student cultural center next month. The play, which was written in 1949, follows acquaintances Vladimir and Estragon as they wait for their mutual friend Godot to meet them. Vladimir and Estragon are joined by three other male characters in two acts - a feature that Samuel Beckett's estate specifically states cannot be performed by males. Oisn, a physics professor at the University of Groningen, described the past few weeks as 'completely ridiculous', according to the Irish Times. University of Groningen is the main attraction. Playwright Samuel Beckett is left inset. Right inset: Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen pictured starring in a 2009 production of Waiting for Godot

On Thursday evening, Kathleen Turner made a rare appearance on a red carpet in New York City. In an all black outfit featuring a long-sleeved turtleneck top and loose slacks, the 68-year-old veteran Hollywood actress, who appeared in the 1984 film Romancing The Stone as well as 1994's campy hit Serial Mom, was fashionable. As she was elegantly made up in plum tones, her trademark golden hair was parted on the side and worn shoulder length. At the opening night, the award-winning spian was posing at the Irish Repertory Theatre's production of End Game, author Samuel Beckett's one-act play End Game about a blind man and his parents who live in a shack. The celebration was held at the Merchants New York New York.

EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Harry's shaming of William and Kate for reportedly endorsing his wearing of a Nazi uniform didn't just upset the Prince and Princess of Wales. Surely it also exposes Harry's incapacity for independent thought and his lack of a sense of history? At a fancy dress party hosted by William, he wore the offensive costume at a fancy dress party that had set the 'colonials and natives' theme. Prince Philip had disciplined both brothers over the affair.

Quantum Leap's cast and creative team received a Season 2 renewal in December. On Monday, NBC announced that the series premiere episode had attracted 10.8 million viewers on linear, digital, and streaming platforms like NBCUniversal's Peacock. According to a NBC press release, the show has the largest launch on Peacock to date and is currently the second most popular television show in the all-important 18-49 age group.

After 35 years on the road, Judith Lucy has announced that she will no longer be doing stand-up comedy. The 54-year-old funny woman said she was 'done' with the constant travel and needs to prioritize other aspects of her life. "I started doing comedies before I lost my virginity,' she told ABC Everyday. 'Houses, boyfriends, unions, and my hymen have all passed and gone.'

On Thursday evening, the Palace selected a simple, black-and-white photograph of the Queen smiling to announce Her Majesty's death. The photograph was shot in 2006 by late Fleet Street turned celebrity photographer Jane Bown, who died in 2015. The Queen had adored Bown's demeanor and her basic camera skills. Bown was 81 when she stepped behind the camera to photograph a photo that is now immortalized in England's history. (Pictured from left: Jane Bown, the image of the late Queen released on Thursday to announce her death at 96)

RICHARD EDEN: She's the willowy beauty who grew up in the flamboyant billionaire arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi's super-yacht world. She was the father, according to her. However, Petra Khashoggi, 18, discovered she was the niece of Jonathan Aitken, the ex-Cabinet minister who fell from grace but found redemption as a prison chaplain, despite being a prisoner. Now I can reveal that she has married a man with whom her father has not met.