SAMUEL

BECKETT
SUMMER
SCHOOL

PROGRAMME
of the 2015 Samuel Beckett Summer School

9 - 15 August 2015
TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN
The School of English & The School of Drama, Film and Music

Beckett Summer School Venue Guide

Lavazza Vaults:
Daily Lunch

Front Gate of
Trinity College

Graduate
Memorial
Building (GMB)

Nassau Street
Gate (campus
access to Arts
Building)

Old Library
(Launch Event)

Players Theatre
and Samuel
Beckett Theatre

Arts Building
Dunne &
Crescenzi

Trinity Long
Room Hub
(Lectures)

Pearse Street
DART Station

Kennedys
Pub

Table of Venues
SUMMER SCHOOL ACADEMIC PROGRAMME:
Graduate Memorial Building (GMB) Arrival Registration, Welcome Event
Trinity Long Room Hub (First Floor) Morning Lectures, Manuscripts Seminar, Plenaries
Samuel Beckett Centre (Players Theatre) Performance Workshop / Beckett Laboratory
The Old Library (The Long Room) Monday Launch Event
Arts Building: Beckett & Poetry (3051), Beckett & Visual Arts (3106), Reading Group (4019)
SUMMER SCHOOL PUBLIC PROGRAMME AND PERFORMANCES:
Graduate Memorial Building (GMB) Eoin OBrien & Gerald Dawe / Barry McGovern
Samuel Beckett Centre (Samuel Beckett Theatre) Pan Pan and Gare St Lazare Ireland
Irish Museum of Modern Art (Royal Hospital Kilmainham) Derval Tubridy & exhibit

Table of Venues (continued)

MEETING POINTS for OFF-CAMPUS EVENTS:
NASSAU GATE (next to Arts Building) 11:00 Wednesday for IMMA bus
IMMA (main parking lot) 2:30 Wednesday for Tour of Beckett Country
NASSAU GATE 7:15 Friday for Howth Yacht Club bus
SUMMER SCHOOL SOCIAL PROGRAMME & MEALS:
Kennedys Pub (Lincoln Place) Sunday Welcome Drinks / Wednesday Pub Quiz
The Buttery (The Lavazza Vaults) Daily Lunch (on campus) except Wednesday (IMMA)
Dunne & Crescenzi (South Frederick Street) Monday Dinner (optional)
Howth Yacht Club (Howth Harbour) Friday Banquet

Schedule/Venue Quick Reference

Sunday 9 August

Monday 10 August

Tuesday 11 August

Wednesday 12 August

Thursday 13 August

Friday 14 August

FULL SCHEDULE
SUNDAY 9 AUGUST 2015
REGISTRATION & WELCOME
4.30pm - 6.00pm, Graduate Memorial Building (GMB):
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Summer School registration opens
WELCOME EVENT and RECEPTION
6.00pm - 7.00pm, Graduate Memorial Building (GMB):
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Publication celebration of The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett (ed. Dirk
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Van Hulle) and Deleuze and Beckett (eds. S. E. Wilmer and Audron
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ukauskait), with remarks by Benjamin Keatinge
7.30pm onward, Kennedys Pub, Lincoln Place (entrance off Westland Row):
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All students, staff, and friends of the Summer School welcome

MONDAY 10 AUGUST 2015

8.45am - 9.30am, Graduate Memorial Building (GMB): Registration continues
LECTURE 1 C. J. ACKERLEY
9.30am - 11.00am, Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub (First Floor):
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Samuel Beckett and Physics
COFFEE BREAK 11.00am - 11.30am, Ideas Space, Trinity Long Room Hub (Second Floor)
LECTURE 2 PAUL STEWART
11.30am - 1.00pm, Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub (First Floor):
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as innocent as the sperm unspilt: Sex and Power in Becketts Works
LUNCH 1.00pm - 2.30pm, Lavazza Vaults, The Buttery, Dining Hall, Front Square
SEMINAR SESSIONS
2.30pm - 5.30pm, Various Locations:
Trinity Long Room Hub (Seminar Room, first floor)
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Becketts Manuscripts / led by Mark Nixon and Dirk Van Hulle
Arts Building (Room 3051)
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Beckett and Poetry / led by David Wheatley
Arts Building (Room 3106)
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Beckett and the Visual Arts / led by Derval Tubridy
Arts Building (Room 4019)
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Beckett Reading Group: Three Novels / led by Sam Slote
Samuel Beckett Centre (Players Theatre)
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Beckett Performance Workshop / Samuel Beckett Laboratory 2015
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Led by Jonathan Heron and Nicholas Johnson

BECKETT SUMMER SCHOOL OFFICIAL LAUNCH

6.00pm, The Long Room, The Old Library
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Remarks by Nicholas Johnson, co-director of the Beckett Summer School
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Reading by Stephen Brennan from Imagination Dead Imagine
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Launch of 50th Anniversary letterpress edition of Imagination Dead Imagine by
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the Salvage Press, typographic design by Jamie Murphy, illustrated through
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lithographs by David OKane and introduced by S. E. Gontarski
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Opening of the Beckett Manuscripts special display
Optional Dinner Arrangement: Dunne & Crescenzi, South Frederick Street

TUESDAY 11 AUGUST 2015

LECTURE 3 AMANDA DENNIS
9.30am - 11.00am, Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub (First Floor):
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Beckett, Sensation and Agency
COFFEE BREAK 11.00am - 11.30am, Ideas Space, Trinity Long Room Hub (Second Floor)
LECTURE 4 DAVID WHEATLEY
11.30pm - 1.00pm, Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub (First Floor):
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Aspermatic Days and Nights: Samuel Beckett and an Anti-Genealogy of
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Contemporary Irish Poetry
LUNCH 1.00pm - 2.30pm, Lavazza Vaults, The Buttery, Dining Hall, Front Square
SEMINAR SESSIONS
2.30pm - 5.30pm, Various Locations:
Trinity Long Room Hub (Seminar Room, first floor)
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Becketts Manuscripts / led by Mark Nixon and Dirk Van Hulle
Arts Building (Room 3051)
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Beckett and Poetry / led by David Wheatley
Arts Building (Room 3106)
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Beckett and the Visual Arts / led by Derval Tubridy
Arts Building (Room 4019)
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Beckett Reading Group: Three Novels / led by Sam Slote
Samuel Beckett Centre (Players Theatre)
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Beckett Performance Workshop / Samuel Beckett Laboratory 2015
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Led by Jonathan Heron and Nicholas Johnson
PUBLIC PROGRAMME EOIN OBRIEN and GERALD DAWE
6.00pm - 7.30pm, Graduate Memorial Building:
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Eoin OBrien and Gerald Dawe in Conversation, on Beckett and The Weight of
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Compassion and Other Essays, with a reading by Barry McGovern
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Reception to follow for registered Summer School participants.

TUESDAY 11 AUGUST 2015 (continued)

PUBLIC PROGRAMME A Lecture-Demonstration of QUAD by SAMUEL BECKETT
8.30pm - 10.00pm, Samuel Beckett Theatre
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Presented by Pan Pan Theatre Company and Irish Modern Dance Theatre
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Direction: Gavin Quinn / Choreography: John Scott / Design: Aedn Cosgrove
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Including a lecture by Conor Houghton and moderation by Nicholas Johnson.
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Please see separate event programme for full description and credits.
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Optional Evening Arrangements: Kennedys Pub
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Tables reserved after 10.00pm; kitchen open late for food orders till 10.15pm

WEDNESDAY 12 AUGUST 2015

MANUSCRIPT SEMINAR SPECIAL SESSION
9.30am - 11.00am, Henry Jones Room, Old Library
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*Note: only for participants in the Manuscript Seminar
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Meet at the side entrance of the Old Library at 9.20am for access
EXHIBIT VISIT: IRISH MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
11.15am - 12.15pm, Irish Museum of Modern Art, guided visit to Stan Douglas exhibition
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Meet at Nassau Street Gate at 11.00am for prompt bus departure
LUNCH 12.15pm - 1.00pm, IMMA Museum Caf
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*Note shorter lunch today for all those attending lecture
LECTURE 5 / PUBLIC PROGRAMME DERVAL TUBRIDY
1.00pm - 2.30pm, Lecture Hall, Irish Museum of Modern Art:
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The unthought and the harrowing: Samuel Becketts Necessary Art
OPTIONAL EXCURSION THE BECKETT COUNTRY
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Feargal Whelan guides a tour of the Beckett Country, sign-up required
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Meet at IMMA main parking lot at 2.30 for prompt departure
NO LACK OF VOID
2.30pm - 6.00pm, Open day in Dublin for those not on excursion no seminar meetings
PUBLIC PROGRAMME BARRY McGOVERN
7.00pm - 8.00pm, Graduate Memorial Building (GMB):
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Becketts Poems: The European Caravan and Other Precipitates
BECKETT PUB QUIZ
9.00pm - 11.00pm, Kennedys Pub, Lincoln Place:
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Questions, hypotheses, call them that.
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Honed and delivered by Quizmaster Mark Nixon; assessed by Nicholas Johnson.

THURSDAY 13 AUGUST 2015

LECTURE 6 LOIS OPPENHEIM
9.30am - 11.00am, Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub (First Floor):
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fMRI in Prose: Beckett and Neuroscience
COFFEE BREAK
11.00am - 11.30am, Ideas Space, Trinity Long Room Hub (Second Floor)
PLENARY SAMUEL BECKETT AND PEDAGOGY
11.30am - 1.00pm, Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub (First Floor):
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The loutishness of learning: A Roundtable on Beckett and Pedagogy
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Chaired and moderated by Jonathan Heron, with C. J. Ackerley, Amanda Dennis,
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Rodney Sharkey, Paul Stewart, Derval Tubridy, and David Wheatley
LUNCH
1.00pm - 2.30pm, Lavazza Vaults, The Buttery, Dining Hall, Front Square
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SEMINAR SESSIONS 2.30pm - 5.30pm, Various Locations:
Trinity Long Room Hub (Seminar Room, first floor)
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Becketts Manuscripts / led by Mark Nixon and Dirk Van Hulle
Arts Building (Room 3051)
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Beckett and Poetry / led by David Wheatley
Arts Building (Room 3106)
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Beckett and the Visual Arts / led by Derval Tubridy
Arts Building (Room 4019)
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Beckett Reading Group: Three Novels / led by Sam Slote
Samuel Beckett Centre (Players Theatre)
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Beckett Performance Workshop / Samuel Beckett Laboratory 2015
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Led by Jonathan Heron and Nicholas Johnson
PERFORMANCE GARE ST. LAZARE IRELAND presents THE BECKETT TRILOGY
7.00pm - 10.00pm, Samuel Beckett Theatre
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The Beckett Trilogy Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable
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Presented by Gare St. Lazare Ireland / Directed by Judy Hegarty-Lovett
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Performed by Conor Lovett / See event programme for full description.

FRIDAY 14 AUGUST 2015

INTERVIEW CONOR LOVETT
10.00am - 11.00am, Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub (First Floor):
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A post-show discussion with Conor Lovett, moderated by Nicholas Johnson
COFFEE BREAK
11.00am - 11.30am, Ideas Space, Trinity Long Room Hub (Second Floor)

FRIDAY 14 AUGUST 2015 (continued)

SEMINAR SESSIONS
11.30pm - 1.00pm, Various Locations:
Trinity Long Room Hub (Seminar Room, first floor)
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Becketts Manuscripts / led by Mark Nixon and Dirk Van Hulle
Arts Building (Room 3051)
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Beckett and Poetry / led by David Wheatley
Arts Building (Room 3106)
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Beckett and the Visual Arts / led by Derval Tubridy
Arts Building (Room 4019)
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Beckett Reading Group: Three Novels / led by Sam Slote
Samuel Beckett Centre (Players Theatre)
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Beckett Performance Workshop / Samuel Beckett Laboratory 2015
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Led by Jonathan Heron and Nicholas Johnson
LUNCH
1.00pm - 2.00pm, Lavazza Vaults, The Buttery, Dining Hall, Front Square
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*Note shorter lunch today
PLENARY SEMINAR GROUP PRESENTATIONS
2.00pm - 4.00pm, Neill/Hoey Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub (First Floor):
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Informal report on weeks work from four seminar groups (excluding Performance)
PERFORMANCE PREPARATION
4.00pm - 5.00pm, Players Theatre, Samuel Beckett Centre
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Beckett Laboratory group works in theatre (*ONLY Performance Workshop attend)
PERFORMANCE WORKSHOP PRESENTATION
5.00pm - 6.00pm, Players Theatre, Samuel Beckett Centre
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Results from the Samuel Beckett Laboratory (all other seminar groups invited)
SUMMER SCHOOL GROUP PHOTO
6:00 - 6.15pm, outside Samuel Beckett Centre
FAREWELL BANQUET
From 7.15pm, The Howth Yacht Club (Howth Harbour):
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Meet at 7.00 at Nassau Street Gate for bus to dinner location, for fine dining and
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private bar; bus provided back to town, departing near midnight.
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Public transport options also available; see separate sheet provided for full details.

About the Seminars

Becketts Manuscripts (Mark Nixon and Dirk Van Hulle) During his lifetime, Samuel Beckett donated
several manuscripts to archives at universities such as Trinity College, Dublin, and the University of
Reading. By studying the marginalia in the books of his personal library, his reading notes on literature,
philosophy and psychology, his drafts and typescripts, we investigate how these manuscripts can contribute
to an interpretation of Becketts works. The methodological framework is the theory of genetic criticism,
which sets itself a double task: the genetic task of making the manuscripts accessible (ordering,
deciphering and transcribing), resulting in a genetic dossier; the critical task of reconstructing the genesis
from a chosen point of view (psychoanalysis, sociocriticism, narratology, etc.). Different methods of
transcription (diplomatic, linear, topographic) and encoding (markup languages, the Text Encoding
Initiatives guidelines) will be discussed and applied to Becketts manuscripts. The potential interpretive
consequences of this genetic research will be discussed in the second part of the seminar.
Beckett and the Visual Arts (Derval Tubridy) This series of four seminars will explore the intersections
between Becketts writing and the visual arts. Tracing lines of enquiry through ideas of the body, language,
subjectivity, performativity and identity, the seminars critically analyse the ways in which questions that are
key to Becketts prose, poetry and performance underpin significant moments in contemporary art.
Beckett and Poetry (David Wheatley) As his place on pub posters of Irish writers attests, Samuel Becketts
place in the Irish popular imagination is secure. While Beckett the poet remains understandably
overshadowed by the playwright and novelist, the poems have played their part both in Sen Mordhas
documentaries and Jack MacGowrans recordings in the popularisation of his work. Less well established,
however, is the nature of Beckett the poets relationship to the rest of the Irish poetic canon. A number of
competing trends can nevertheless be identified. The first brackets Beckett with his 1930s confrres Thomas
MacGreevy, Denis Devlin and Brian Coffey as an Irish modernist. The roots of this identification are twofold:
in Becketts Recent Irish Poetry (1934), his polemic against neo-Revivalist verse, and in subsequent revivals
of these 30s poets. A second trend is to find Beckettian traces in contemporary poets, but not in the form of
Becketts own poems: in his Beckett and Contemporary Irish Writing, Stephen Watt devotes a chapter to
Beckett and Derek Mahon and Paul Muldoon, while making only cursory reference to Becketts poetry. A
third trend is the responses of contemporary poets themselves to Becketts work: here again, Muldoon and
Mahon stand out, while other poets (Heaney, Boland) appear to have little or no use for him in their personal
canons. In these seminars we will examine Becketts own poetry, and attempt to trace a genealogy of the
Beckettian in Irish poetry from the 30s to the present day. Among the writers whose work we will consider
are: Thomas MacGreevy, Denis Devlin, Brian Coffey, Sen Rordin, Blnaid Salkeld, Thomas Kinsella,
Derek Mahon, Ciaran Carson, Paul Muldoon, Eavan Boland, Catherine Walsh, and Justin Quinn. The
required text is solely Samuel Becketts Collected Poems.
Beckett Reading Group: Three Novels (Sam Slote) Over the course of the week we will slowly and patiently
make our way through Becketts Trilogy (Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable), which, along with Waiting for
Godot, forms the heart of Becketts frenzy of writing from 1946 to 1953. We will address issues of narrative,
style, humour, repetition and seriality. While some previous familiarity with either the novels of the Trilogy
or its predecessors (Murphy and Watt) is recommended, it is not necessary.
Beckett Performance Workshop / Samuel Beckett Laboratory (Jonathan Heron and Nicholas Johnson) The
Samuel Beckett Laboratory, in partnership with DU Players, provides a space and occasion for fundamental
research into Samuel Becketts work in through performance. Working in a black-box theatre space over five
days, we create an ensemble of students, scholars, performers, directors, designers, and technicians to
explore problems, processes, and philosophies in the practice of Becketts theatre. The 2015 Summer School
meeting constitutes our fifth experiment as the Beckett Lab, in which performance is viewed not only as an
end in itself, but also used as a research method. The textual focus of this work is not limited to Becketts
plays, but will extend to a variety of Beckettian voices, voids, fragments, and fizzles, to discover what occurs
when these are embodied in a specific time and space. Interest in performance as a praxis is the sole
prerequisite, and this laboratory is absolutely open to non-professionals. Our focal texts this year will be the
novel The Unnamable, including some manuscript materials available through the BDMP, and the play Not I.

About the Performance

GARE ST. LAZARE IRELAND presents

THE BECKETT TRILOGY

Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable
performed by Conor Lovett / directed by Judy Hegarty Lovett
Just as his 1953 play Waiting for Godot changed the way we look at theatre, Samuel Becketts novels have also
had a profound influence on modern literature. At the centre of what he considered the important work
are the three novels Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable. Written in French shortly after World War II,
these novels are seen by many as Becketts literary masterpiece.
The Irish theatre company Gare St. Lazare Players Ireland has made an exploration of Becketts prose works.
Director Judy Hegarty Lovett and actor Conor Lovett have worked together on over 18 Beckett titles
covering drama, radio drama, short stories and novels. In 2010 they produced their tenth Beckett prose piece.
They are hailed for making these works fresh and accessible, while highlighting the humour, humanity, and
integrity that is the hallmark of Becketts work. A three-hour tour de force, The Beckett Trilogy cemented Gare
St Lazares reputation as they capture the essence of each of these novels.
Gare St. Lazare Players precise and elegant work has made Beckett accessible to a whole new audience and
earned the company a reputation around the world. Conor Lovetts mesmerising performance in The Beckett
Trilogy has been unanimously hailed as nothing short of outstanding. ! !
(Below: Conor Lovett, Dylan Vaughan)

Venue: The performance is at the Samuel Beckett Theatre, beginning

promptly at 7.00pm on Thursday, 13 August. There are two intervals.
Ticketing: Fully registered members of the Summer School staff and
student body may attend this exclusive performance free of charge.
Remaining tickets will be made available to the public. A sign-up sheet
will circulate on the Thursday morning lectures for that evening;
persons not signed up may not be able to enter the performance, as
unclaimed tickets from the Summer School allocation may be sold.
Support: The company is grateful for funding and ongoing support
from the Arts Council, Culture Ireland, and Dublin City Council. The
Beckett Summer School acknowledges the support of the Provost's
Fund for the Visual and Performing Arts and the support of Larry and
Mary Lund, without whom we could not have presented this work.

About Gare St. Lazare (http://garestlazareireland.com)

Over the past 20 years Gare St Lazare Players Ireland have built a repertory of work that includes
over 18 Beckett titles as well as work by Michael Harding, Conor McPherson, Will Eno, and their
adaptation of Moby Dick by Herman Melville. The tendency has been to premiere work in Ireland
and then tour extensively. To date they have toured over 70 theatres in Ireland, while
internationally they have performed Beckett in 80 cities and 25 countries, across six continents.
Joint artistic directors Judy Hegarty Lovett and Conor Lovett are considered to be among the
leading interpreters of Beckett. Gare St Lazare Ireland has received funding from The Arts Council
of Ireland and are regularly supported by Culture Ireland, the Irish government agency for
promoting Irish cultural excellence abroad.

About the Public Programme

Following its expansion to include public events in 2012, the Beckett Summer School will
again programme a number of events that the wider public may attend. Access to all of
these events is free for registered students and staff members of the Summer School.
The Beckett Summer School gratefully acknowledges the support of the Provosts Fund for
the Visual and Performing Arts in this performance programme, as well as in-kind
support from the Trinity Long Room Hub, RT, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, the
Samuel Beckett Theatre, DU Players, and the Oscar Wilde Centre for Irish Writing.
EOIN OBRIEN in conversation with GERALD DAWE
On Beckett and The Weight of Compassion and Other Essays
with a reading by Barry McGovern
6:00 PM, Tuesday 11 August 2015 / Graduate Memorial Building (GMB), TCD
Eoin OBrien is Adjunct Professor of Molecular Pharmacology at the Conway
Institute of Bimolecular and Biomedical Research, University College Dublin. He is
a Past-President of the Irish Heart Foundation and is currently Chairman of the
Irish Skin Foundation. He has published many scientific papers on hypertension
research, and he is author of Blood Pressure Measurement and the popular ABC of
Hypertension. Professor OBrien has written an acclaimed study on the relevance of
time and place in the writings of Samuel Beckett: The Beckett Country: Samuel
Becketts Ireland, and he published Becketts first novel Dream of Fair to Middling
Women. He has also written books on literary subjects that include A.J. Leventhal
1896-1979: Dublin Scholar: Wit and Man of Letters and three books on the artist and
photographer Nevill Johnson, including Nevill Johnson: Paint the smell of grass;
Nevill Johnson: Artist, Writer, Photographer and Nevill Johnson: The Dublin Legacy. He
has published extensively on medical historical subjects, which include Conscience and Conflict: A Biography of
Sir Dominic Corrigan, and A Portrait of Irish Medicine: An Illustrated History of Irish Medicine. He has recorded
for posterity in text and photography the histories of three recently-closed Dublin hospitals: The Charitable
Infirmary (Jervis Street), St. Laurences Hospital (The Richmond) and the City of Dublin Skin & Cancer
Hospital (Hume Street). Prof. OBrien has a keen interest in international humanitarian affairs, and he is a
member of the Board of the Center for International Humanitarian Cooperation at Fordham University, New
York, and he is Chairman of the Committee on Blood Pressure Measurement in Low Resource Settings at the
World Health Organization in Geneva.
Gerald Dawe is an Irish poet, a professor of English and Fellow of Trinity College
Dublin. He was founder director of the Oscar Wilde Centre for Irish Writing
(1997-2015). He has published nine volumes of poetry with The Gallery Press,
including Selected Poems (2012) and Mickey Finns Air (2014). Recent essays have been
included in Oona Frawley (ed.) Memory Ireland: The Famine and the Troubles (Syracuse
University Press, 2014); Susan Schreibman (ed.) The Life and Times of Thomas
MacGreevy (Bloomsbury Academic, 2013) and Fran Brearton and Alan Gillis (eds.)
The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry (2012). Cork University Press will be
publishing in October Of War and Wars Alarms: Reflections on Modern Irish Writing.

Professor OBriens recent book The Weight of Compassion and Other Essays, published by Lilliput Press, will
be the focus of this event. Some readings by Barry McGovern will be included. A private reception for
members of the Summer School community will follow, including light snacks and beverages for
participants and staff of the summer school attending the Tuesday night events back-to-back.

A Lecture-Demonstration of QUAD by SAMUEL BECKETT

PAN PAN, IRISH MODERN DANCE THEATRE, and CONOR HOUGHTON
8:30 PM, Tuesday 11 August, Samuel Beckett Theatre, Trinity College Dublin
Mysterious, geometric and symmetrical, Quad is an
intricately choreographed movement sequence devised
by Samuel Beckett. Written originally as a television play
and broadcast in Germany in 1981, this is a rare
opportunity to see a staged lecture-demonstration of
what may be Becketts most formal work. Pan Pan
Theatre Company works with acclaimed dance company
Irish Modern Dance Theatre and with Conor Houghton,
a reader in mathematical neuroscience at Bristol
University and former Trinity College Dublin lecturer, to
demonstrate, discuss, and explore this riveting work. The
Samuel Beckett Summer School is proud to present this
highly original collaborative piece for only its second
showing in Dublin, following its premiere at the
Edinburgh International Festival in 2013 and a successful run at the Dublin Dance Festival in 2014.
Director: Gavin Quinn / Choreographer: John Scott / Lecturer: Conor Houghton
Designer: Aedn Cosgrove / Sound: Jimmy Eadie / Producer: Aoife White / Moderator: Nicholas Johnson
Dancers: Kevin Coquelard, Ryan ONeill, Sarah Ryan, Juan Ubana, and Deirdre Griffin (for Quin)
Running time: approximately 90 minutes, including Q & A
Pan Pan receives ongoing support from the Arts Council.
This presentation is supported by the Samuel Beckett Theatre and the Summer School theatre crew.

PUBLIC LECTURE by DERVAL TUBRIDY

The unthought and the harrowing: Samuel Becketts Necessary Art
In association with the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA)
1:00 PM, Wednesday 12 August, IMMA, Military Road, Kilmainham, Dublin 8
This lecture explores the intersections between Becketts writing and the visual
arts and poses questions that are key to Becketts prose, poetry and performance
which underpin significant moments in contemporary art. Derval Tubridy is
Senior Lecturer in Literature and Visual Culture Goldsmiths, University of
London. (see full bio under staff bios in programme). This talk draws on the
IMMA exhibition by Stan Douglas and the presentation of Sam Jurys All Things
Being Equal in the Project Spaces..
The Samuel Beckett Summer School is grateful to all at IMMA for their
collaboration on this free lecture, in particular Sophie Byrne, Christina Kennedy,
Johanne Mullen, and Catherine Marshall. We also acknowledge the support of
RT in publicising the event.

BARRY McGOVERN reads BECKETTS POEMS

The European Caravan and Other Precipitates
7:00 PM, Wednesday 12 August, Graduate Memorial Building (GMB), TCD
Barry McGovernis recognized by many as one of the leadinginterpreters of the work of Samuel Beckett.He
has played Vladimir, Estragon and Lucky inWaiting for Godot,Clov inEndgame,Willie inHappy Daysand

Krapp inKrapps Last Tape. On radio he has

played Henry in Embers, Fox in Rough for
Radio II and directed All that Fall. He has
also played WordsinWords and Music. He
played Vladimir in the Beckett on
FilmGodot. In 2012 he played Vladimir to
Alan Mandells Estragon in LosAngeles and
will play Clov to his Hamm inEndgamethere
next
year. His
two
one-man
BeckettshowsIll Go OnandWatt,produced
by the Gate Theatre, havetoured worldwide.
He frequently lectures on, and gives readings
of, Becketts work. His recordings of the
complete Three Novels (Molloy,Malone DiesandTheUnnamable) are available from RT.In August he will
spend a semester teaching Joyce and Beckett at NotreDame University in Indiana.
.

Special Book Launch: Imagination Dead Imagine

The Beckett Summer School is honoured to launch a new edition of Samuel Becketts Imagination Dead
Imagine in the Long Room at the official launch of this years Summer School, and to feature not only the
artists involved in its creation, but also noted actor Stephen Brennan to read from the text. This new edition
of loose sheets celebrates the 50th anniversary of the original publishing in 1965. The project is a
collaboration between typographic designer Jamie Murphy & visual artist David O'Kane. The work is
introduced with an essay by renowned Beckett scholar Stanley E. Gontarski. The text has been hand-set &
letterpress printed at Distillers Press, NCAD by Jamie Murphy in 18 point Caslon Old Face, supported by
newly drawn ten line grotesque characters by Bobby Tannam, cut from maple by Thomas Mayo. The
exacting text shapes are designed to symbolise time and the morphing of space. David OKane has supplied
two lithographs inspired by the prose text, editioned by Thomas Franke at Stein Werk Lithography studio in
Leipzig. The work is printed on 250 gsm French made Venin Cuve BFK Rives mouldmade. The edition is
limited to 50 copies, 40 of which make up the standard format, ten accounting for the deluxe. The bindings
were executed by Tom Duffy in Dublin. The standard is housed in a cloth covered portfolio, protected inside
a slipcase. The deluxe is presented in a clam-shell box accompanied by a typographic triptych based on the
text. The standard copies are numbered 11 50; the deluxe are numbered 1 10. Each copy has been signed
by the collaborators. The standard presentation is priced at 1100. The deluxe presentation is priced at
1500.
The two images included in this edition were made using a lithography
technique called 'Schablithografie'. This lithography technique is highly
labour intensive and involves scratching away at a surface of the
blackened litho stone to form the image; literally scraping light forms
out of darkness, reinforcing the constructed nature of the text, which
Beckett goes to great lengths to emphasize. The first image is a kind of
schematic. It is not fully formed and harkens back to Greek and Roman
style images, suggesting a metaphorical excavation. The letters and
image turn it into a kind of logotype (literally word-imprint in Greek)
or emblem and form a bridge between the text and the image. The
second image is larger. The unusual format of the image echoes the
formatting of the prose text as it appears in this edition. There are
noticeable discrepancies between what Beckett describes and what is
depicted in the image. The image is in fact a failed attempt to portray
what is fabricated in the story. What interested the artist in staging it is
the fact that the positions and space Beckett describes are anatomically
impossible without gross distortion of the human body.Beckett would
have known this, as he also sketched the space out in his notes. So he

deliberately stresses the cramped nature of the scenario. The fact remains that in the artist's mind's eye the
extreme positions were not exactly related to what is described in the story. The spatial discrepancies are
only revealed completely when the space is mapped out point for point. The finalised lithographs are a
combination of the mental image conjured up during the initial reading of the text and the interpretation of
the physical reenactment made in the studio.
David OKane studied from 2007 until 2012 in Leipzig under professor Neo Rauch at the Academy of Visual
Arts in Leipzig. He was awarded a Diploma Degree with distinction in 2009 and a Meisterschler Degree in
2012.OKanes studies in Germany were funded by an extended DAAD Scholarship. He also holds a 1st
Class Joint-Honours Degree in Fine Art from NCAD in Dublin (2006). In 2014 he won the Golden Fleece
Award in Dublin. This year will also see the publication of an extensive artists book, which will provide an
overview of OKanes practice in recent years. The book is a collaboration between the artist, the Salvage
Press and Gallery Baton, with support from the Golden Fleece Award.OKane is currently an artist in
residence at the Fire Station Artists Studios in Dublin.
Jamie Murphy is an award winning typographic designer and letterpress printer based in Dublin. His
interests lie where contemporary graphic design meets traditional production techniques. Devoted to
preserving, promoting and pursuing excellence in design, typography & letterpress printing, since 2012 he
has produced his books and broadsides under the imprint of The Salvage Press. Following his MA at NCAD,
studying under Master Printer Sen Sills,Jamie has served as designer in residence at Distillers Press since
2013 where he works with students of Visual Communication.His letterpress printed work is held in many
of the world's most distinguished private, institutional and academic collections.
The Beckett Summer School wishes to thank S. E. Gontarski, the staff of the Long Room and the Old Library,
and all at Salvage Press for the opportunity to launch this remarkable book in 2015.

Lecturer, Performer, and Staff Biographies

C. J. Ackerley was, until his recent retirement, Professor of English at the University of Otago, in Dunedin,
New Zealand. His speciality is annotation. Over the past four years he has been part of a team editing and
annotating several previously unpublished works by Malcolm Lowry, including a lost novel, In Ballast to
the White Sea (U Ottawa P, 2014). He has published Demented Particulars: the Annotated Murphy (1996) and
Obscure Locks, Simple Keys: the Annotated Watt (2005); and he has written, with Stan Gontarski, the Grove
Press and Faber Companion to Samuel Beckett (2005 & 2006). He has recently published Sweets of Sin, an
attempt to render the complexities of Ulysses and the Joyce industry into eighteen limericks. His major
current work is a study of Samuel Beckett and Science, of which the Trinity College presentation of Samuel
Beckett and Physics is part.
Amanda Dennis earned her PhD from Berkeley, where she focused on Becketts relationship to 20thcentury
French philosophy. Her current book project, Bodying Space: Beckett and the Question of Agencyis a study of
Merleau-Ponty and Beckett that traces theories of embodied agency in Becketts prose, theater and television
work. She has published on modernism, Nietzsche and aesthetics, and an article on sensory poetics in
BeckettsWattwill appear this winter inThe Journal of Modern Literature.She has taught in England, France,
Spain and the US and is currently a visiting scholar at Columbia University in New York.
Jonathan Heron is the Artistic Director of Fail Better Productions and IATL Senior Teaching Fellow at the
University of Warwick. His recent work as a theatre director has included Diary of a Madman/Discords
(Warwick Arts Centre), The Nativity (Pegasus Oxford), Stasis: Beckett Shorts (Oxford Playhouse) and Play
without aTitle (Belgrade Coventry).Jonathan is a co-author of Open-space Learning: A Study in Transdisciplinary
Pedagogy (Bloomsbury, 2011) and a contributor to Performing Early Modern Drama Today (CUP, 2012). He has
co-edited a special edition of the Journal of Beckett Studies (23.1, 2014) with Nicholas Johnson, with whom he
also co-facilitates the Samuel Beckett Laboratory. He is a founding member of the AHRC Beckett and Brain
Science working group and a co-convenor of the IFTR Performance-as-Research working group.

Nicholas Johnson is Assistant Professor in Drama at TCD, as well as a performer, director, and writer.
Current practice-based research projects on Beckett include Nos Knife with Lisa Dwan (Lincoln Center 2015)
and Ill Seen Ill Said (ATRL 2015). In 2012 he directed Ethica: Four Shorts by Samuel Beckett, presenting Play,
Come and Go, Catastrophe, and What Where in Bulgaria, Dublin, the Enniskillen Festival 2013, and ras an
Uachtairin for World Human Rights Day. He has contributed to The Plays of Samuel Beckett (Methuen, 2013)
as well as Theatre Research International, the Journal of Art Historiography, and Forum Modernes Theater, and coedited the Journal of Beckett Studies special issue on performance (23.1, 2014) with Jonathan Heron. In 2014 he
adapted and directed The Brothers Karamazov and translated/directed Ernst Tollers Machinewreckers, both at
the Beckett Theatre. He is co-director of the Beckett Summer School and co-convenor of the Beckett Working
Group at the International Federation for Theatre Research.
Barry McGovern is a Dublin-born actor who has performed to international acclaim in many Beckett plays
for stage and radio. He was a board member and actor in the Beckett Festival which the Dublin Gate Theatre
launched in 1991 in partnership with Trinity College and Radio Telefs Eireann, and which toured to New
York in 1996 and London in 1999. His award-winning one man show Ill Go On, from the novels Molloy,
Malone Dies and the Unnamable, was originally presented by the Gate Theatre at the Dublin Theatre Festival
in 1985 and has toured all over the world; it was presented along with his performance of Watt at the 2013
Edinburgh International Festival. In August he will spend a semester teaching Joyce and Beckett at Notre
Dame University in Indiana. This marks his fifth appearance at the Beckett Summer School.
Mark Nixon is Associate Professor in Modern Literature at the University of Reading, where he is also
Director of the Beckett International Foundation. With Dirk Van Hulle, he is editor in chief of the Journal of
Beckett Studies and Co-Director of the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project. He is also an editor of Samuel
Beckett Today / Aujourdhui and the current President of the Samuel Beckett Society. He has published widely
on Becketts work; recent books include the monograph Samuel Becketts German Diaries 1936-37 (Continuum,
2011), the edited collection Publishing Samuel Beckett (British Library, 2011) and Samuel Becketts Library,
written with Dirk Van Hulle (Cambridge UP, 2013). His critical edition of Becketts short story Echos
Bones was published by Faber in April 2014. He is currently preparing critical editions of Becketts Critical
Writings (with David Tucker; Faber) and Becketts German Diaries (with Oliver Lubrich; Suhrkamp), as
well as The Bloomsbury Companion to Modernist Literature (with Ulrika Maude; Bloomsbury, 2015).
Lois Oppenheim is University Distinguished Scholar, Professor of French, and Chair of the Department of
Modern Languages and Literatures at Montclair State University. She is also Scholar Associate Member of
the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and Honorary Member of the William Alanson White
Society. Dr. Oppenheim has published more than 90 papers and authored or edited twelve books, the most
recent being Psychoanalysis and the Artistic Endeavor: Conversations with Literary and Visual Artists; Imagination
from Fantasy to Delusion (awarded the 2013 Courage to Dream Prize from the American Psychoanalytic
Association), and A Curious Intimacy: Art and Neuro-Psychoanalysis. Dear Mr. Beckett: A Barney Rosset
Scrapbook, edited by Dr. Oppenheim and curated by Astrid Mysers Rosset, is currently in production.
Sam Sloteis Associate Professor in English at Trinity College Dublin and a co-director of the Samuel Beckett
Summer School, as well as a Fellow of Trinity College. His essays on Beckett have appeared in The Journal of
Beckett Studies, Publishing Samuel Beckett (ed. Mark Nixon), Samuel Beckett in Context (ed. Anthony Uhlmann),
The Edinburgh Companion to Samuel Beckett and the Arts (ed. S. E. Gontarski), and the 2015 revised edition of
The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett (ed. Dirk Van Hulle). His most recent book is Joyce's Nietzschean
Ethics. In addition to his work on Beckett and Joyce, he has written on Modernists such Nabokov, Pound,
Borges, Woolf, and Elvis.
Paul Stewart is Professor of Literature at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus. He is the author of two book on
Beckett: Sex and Aesthetics in Samuel Becketts Works (Palgrave 2011) and Zone of Evaporation: Samuel Becketts
Disjunctions (Rodopi, 2006). He is a regular contributor to The Journal of Beckett Studies and Samuel Beckett
Today/ Aujourdhui. He is currently working on questions of narrative and ethics in Beckett and Coetzee, as
well as the radio and stage adaptations of Lessness. He is also a creative writer; his first novel Now Then was
published by Armida Press in 2014 and his first volume of poetry, And Other Elsewheres, appeared in 2009.

Derval Tubridyis Dean of the Graduate School, Associate Pro-Warden for Research and Enterprise, and
Senior Lecturer in Literature and Visual Culture at Goldsmiths, University of London. Author ofThomas
Kinsella: The Peppercanister Poems(2001), and editor of a special edition ofIrish StudiesReview(16/3, 2008), she
has published chapters inThe Oxford History of the Irish Book, Volume V: The Irish Book in English, 1891-2000;
Beckett and Nothing; A Companion to James Joyce; Contemporary Debates in Literature and Philosophy; Ireland:
Space, Text, Time; Seeing Things: Literature and the Visual,The Irish Book in the Twentieth CenturyandSamuel
Beckett: A Casebook,as well as articles inPerformance Research; The Irish University Review; Irish StudiesReview;
The Journal of Beckett Studies,andSamuel Beckett Today/Aujourdhui.She co-organised the 2006 conference on
Beckett and the visual arts,Beckett and Companyat Goldsmiths and Tate Modern. Her research has been
funded by the Fulbright Commission and by the British Academy. She is currently working on a book on
Beckett and contemporary art calledArt after Beckett.
Dirk Van Hulle is professor of English literature at the University of Antwerp (Centre for Manuscript
Genetics). Heis a trustee of the International James Joyce Foundation and an editor of Samuel Beckett Today /
Aujourdhui. With Mark Nixon, he is co-director of the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project (BDMP) and editor
in chief of the Journal of Beckett Studies. He is the author ofTextual Awareness (2004), Manuscript Genetics:
Joyces Know-How, Becketts Nohow (2008) and The Making of Samuel Becketts Stirrings Still and what is the
word (2011). He is co-author of Samuel Becketts Library(CambridgeUP, 2013) with Mark Nixon; editor of
Becketts Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, Worstward Ho, Stirrings Still(Faber and Faber, 2009); and with Shane
Weller he has co-edited a genetic edition of Beckett's LInnommable/The Unnamable (2013), the second module
of the BDMP (www.beckettarchive.org). His most recent publications are a monograph on Modern
Manuscripts: The Extended Mind and Creative Undoing (Bloomsbury, 2014) and the second edition of the
Cambridge Companion to Samuel Beckett (CambridgeUP).
David Wheatley is Senior Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen. He is the author of four collections of
poetry with Gallery Press: Thirst (1997), Misery Hill (2000), Mocker (2006) and A Nest on the Waves (2010), and
has edited the work of James Clarence Mangan for Gallery Press and Samuel Becketts Selected Poems
1930-1989 for Faber and Faber. His Contemporary British Poetry is published by Palgrave (2015), and other
critical work has appeared in The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry (2012), The Oxford Handbook of
Victorian Poetry (2013), The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry (2013), The Oxford
Handbook of British and Irish War Poetry (2007), The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney (2009)and The
Cambridge Companion to Contemporary Irish Poetry (2003). His articles and reviews have appeared widely, in
journals including London Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian and Dublin Review, and his
poetry has featured in various anthologies, including Identity Parade (Bloodaxe, 2010) and The Penguin Book of
Irish Poetry (2010). Among his prizes are the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the Vincent Buckley Poetry
Prize and the Poetry Ireland/Friends Provident National Poetry Competition.
Feargal Whelan is from Dublin and was awarded a Doctorate from University College Dublin in 2014 with a
thesis entitled Samuel Beckett and the Irish Protestant Imagination. He was co-organiser of the highly successful
Samuel Beckett and the State of Ireland conference which was held annually at UCD from 2011 to 2013
and is currently co-editing the conference proceedings. His work has been published in The Journal of Beckett
Studies among other journals, and he has presented papers on Beckett at conferences in Ireland, the United
Kingdom and Canada and will present at the Samuel Beckett Society panel at the MLA Convention in
Vancouver in January.

Social Programme and Meals

Kennedys Pub, one of Becketts favoured spots during his student days, is designated as the official pub of
the Beckett Summer School, in order to facilitate an informal space for students and staff to converse and
meet outside the bounds of the lectures and seminars. The pub serves food until 9:30 most evenings and
maintains a pleasant atmosphere until late. Tables are specially reserved this year for our Sunday welcome,
Tuesday post-Quad, and Wednesday for the second annual Beckett Pub Quiz. All students and staff are
encouraged to use Kennedys as the local hub of convivial evening activities, whether or not they consume
alcohol. All evening social arrangements are completely optional and are not paid for by the Summer School.
Daily lunch is included in the Summer School for staff and students, as is the closing nights banquet dinner.

There is a very large selection of restaurants near campus suitable for assorted budgets; if you are seeking
good guidance on local restaurants nearby, please approach any of the local volunteers, staff members, or
Trinity-based lecturers for advice!

Bursaries and Partner Universities

Each year since its inception, the Beckett Summer School has offered a competitive
international bursary for the full programme. Congratulations to our 2015 winner:
Brea Marks Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
In 2013, the Beckett Summer School formed partnerships with several universities and
other entities to offer joint bursaries, as part of our commitment to reducing attendance
costs for the most talented students from around the world. We gratefully acknowledge
the support of the following universities and organizations, listed with student winners:
University of Reading, Beckett International Foundation Samantha Morrish
Emory University, Laney School of Graduate Studies Alyssa Duck
University of Michigan, Department of English Language and Literature Gregory Ariail
U. of Antwerp, Centre for Manuscript Genetics, Dept. of Literature Lise Wouters
Hebrew University, Dept. of English & Irish Friends of Hebrew University Lasse Jensen
Florida State U., George Harper Travel Grant, Dept. of English Stephen Howard
University of York, English and Related Literature Nicholas Wolterman

Congratulations to student winners, and thank you to our supporters!

The School Committee and Volunteers

Patron: Edward Beckett
Directors: Nicholas Johnson and Sam Slote
Programme Coordinator: Seona MacRamoinn
Publicity and Marketing: Lucy McKenna
Administration: Alessandra Nania, Chris Morash, Florence Gribaudo, Kalli Ringelberg
Beckett Laboratory Resident Designer: Molly OCathain
Theatre Technical Support / Crew: Jude Barriscale, Dara Hoban, Colm McNally
School Administrator (Drama, Film & Music): Gail Weadick
School Administrator (English): Orla McCarthy
Volunteers: Bur dem Dinel, James Little, Karl Peters, Stephen Stacey
Look for 2016 dates, programme, and future announcements at

www.beckettsummerschool.com

(and join our Facebook and Twitter accounts for regular updates).

Good. I am alone. It is summer. Time passes.

What Where, 1983

SPONSORSHIP & SPECIAL THANKS

SPECIAL THANKS TO:
Our support staff and volunteers All staff at our venues, especially the Long Room Hub, Beckett
Centre, and IMMA Dean Darryl Jones Nicholas Grene, Christopher Morash, Eve Patten &
colleagues in the School of English Brian Singleton & colleagues in the School of Drama, Film,
and Music Bernard Meehan and Jane Maxwell at TCD Library Provost Patrick Prendergast
The Estate of Samuel Beckett Jrgen Barkhoff Curtis Brown David Abrahamson Douglas
Atkinson Ruben Borg Enoch Brater Stephen Brennan Michael Colgan Anne-Marie Diffley
Stan Gontarski Ben Keatinge Emilie Morin Simon Williams Steve Wilmer
Irish Friends of Hebrew University Cambridge University Press Mitchells Wines
Goldsmiths, University of London Vrije Universiteit Brussel

SUPPORTERS & PARTNERS of the SAMUEL BECKETT SUMMER SCHOOL 2015

PUBLICITY PARTNERS of the SAMUEL BECKETT SUMMER SCHOOL 2015

UNIVERSITY BURSARY PARTNERS 2015

MAJOR SPONSORS
The School of English and the School of Drama, Film, and Music, TCD
The Trinity Long Room Hub Research Institute for the Humanities
The Provosts Fund for the Visual and Performing Arts
Larry and Mary Lund