Samuel Beckett

Endgame (2023)

Endgame tells the story of Hamm, who is reduced to living in one room, in which he sits blind and chair-bound. His only escape from his solitary world is the company of his aging, legless parents, who live in garbage bins, and his shuffling servant, Clov, ...

Waiting for Godot (2021)

An experimental exploration of the storied play. Becket's vision of perpetual uncertainty, anxiety, and loneliness is refracted through our current moment. ...

Happy Days (2021)

Winnie is buried up to her waist. The merciless sun beats down. Her husband Willie barely speaks. And yet! - she proclaims – 'this will have been another happy day'. Defiant, determined and fiercely resilient, Winnie greets each day with humour and b ...

Beckett Double Bill (Krapp's Last Tape / The Old Tune) (2020)

Krapp's Last Tape: James Hayes uses his natural Irish accent to deliver the best known of these works, a meditation on ageing. He plays the eponymous Krapp, a sad, lonely man recollecting emotion in tranquility with the assistance of a reel to reel tape r ...

En attendant Godot (2019)

A French adaptation of Samuel Beckett's play "Waiting for Godot", staged by Marion Coutris et Serge Noyelle. ...

Beckett by Brook (2018)

With hindsight, we can see exactly how wrong the labels given to Samuel Beckett have been, since it has been said that his writing was sad, negative and desperate. Nowadays, it can be said that several of his pieces submerge us in the reality of human exis ...

Waiting for Godot (2018)

A famous tragicomedy "Waiting for Godot" by Samuel Beckett was premiered on the 3rd of February 2018 at the New Stage of the Vakhtangov Theatre. The play is staged by Vladimir Beldian, a graduate of Workshop of Rimas Tuminas. ...

Let Us Persevere in What We Have Resolved Before We Forget (2013)

On the island of Tanna, a part of Vanuatu, an archipelago in Melanesia, strange rites are enacted and time passes slowly while the inhabitants await the return of the mysterious John. ...

What Where (2013)

Four disembodied faces engage in a cycle of interrogation and torture. ...

Emancipation in the Brain (2012)

The play combines Beckett's true personality with his conflict with the two characters who make up the heroes of his two novels, "Malone Dies" and "Endgame," as well as how his influence on his heroes affects his personal life. ...

Fin de partie (2008)

Krapp's Last Tape (2007)

A 69 year old man sits alone on his last birthday and listens to the past. Krapp's Last Tape is an extraordinary study of mortality, creativity and memory. A television relay of the 2006 Royal Court Theatre production of Samuel Beckett's critically acclaim ...

Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film (2003)

Follows the "Beckett on Film" project, which produced film adaptations of Samuel Beckett's nineteen plays. ...

Ohio Impromptu (2002)

A reader tells a sad story to a listener, who only knocks in response. ...

Catastrophe (2001)

An autocratic Director (Harold Pinter) and his Assistant (Rebecca Pidgeon) put the final touches to the last scene of some kind of dramatic presentation, which consists entirely of a man (John Gielgud) standing still onstage. ...

A Piece of Monologue (2001)

As the rain patters outside, an old man talks to himself about birth, death, funerals, lamps, missing pictures and "loved ones" - a term he perpetually avoids using. ...

Act Without Words I (2001)

A hot, thirsty man in the desert is tormented when the things he needs drop from the sky only to disappear again or hover out of his reach. ...

Act Without Words II (2001)

On a strip of film exist a pile of clothes and two men in bags. The two men conduct their lives in isolation of each other: when one is awake, the other is asleep in his bag. ...

Play (2001)

The land is filled with people in urns chattering at top speed, but only to themselves, not to one another. The focus goes to three people: a man, his mistress and his wife. ...

Waiting for Godot (2001)

Two tramps wait for a man named Godot, but instead meet a pompous man and his stooped-over slave. ...

Breath (2001)

The camera swoops down on a circular area, seemingly suspended in space. It is filled with medical waste and other trash. A labored exhalation is heard. Then it stops. Then it starts again, culminating in a windy, dying sigh. ...

Endgame (2000)

Hamm is blind and unable to stand; Clov, his servant, is unable to sit; Nagg and Nell are his father and mother, who are legless and live in dustbins. Together they live in a room with two windows, but there may be nothing at all outside. ...

Krapp's Last Tape (2000)

In Krapp's Last Tape, which was written in English in 1958, an old man reviews his life and assesses his predicament. We learn about him not from the 69-year-old man on stage, but from his 39-year-old self on the tape he chooses to listen to. On the 'awful ...

What Where (2000)

There are five survivors in a futuristic library. Bam is their supreme dictator, and has the others interrogated and tortured, believing them to have said where. What Bam means is unclear, but he distrusts all. ...

Happy Days (2000)

An adaptation of Samuel Beckett's absurdist drama. An ordinary woman lives her humdrum life half-buried in a pile of dirt; her husband is partially visible behind her. She goes through her daily routines, ever hopeful that this is going to be a happy day. ...

Footfalls (2000)

May, wrapped in tatters, paces back and forth engaging in conversation with the disembodied voice of her mother. In the second scene, May's voice becomes subsumed into her mother's. ...

Not I (2000)

A young woman sits down in a chair. Only her mouth is visible as she begins to speak at a rapid clip, describing events that she insists did not really happen to her. ...

Come and Go (2000)

An adaptation of Samuel Beckett's short play from 1965. Three women meet on a bench; they reminisce about their old school days and whisper terrible secrets. ...

Rockaby (2000)

An old woman in a rocking chair listens to a disembodied voice (her own) that recounts her life and that of her mother's. When the voice stops, she calls for more. ...

Rough for Theatre I (2000)

An old blind beggar and an old cripple in a wheelchair meet on a desolate street corner. The latter proposes that the two form an alliance, but the men are not destined to get along together. ...

Rough for Theatre II (2000)

Two bureaucrats discuss the potential suicide of a man standing perfectly still in front of a door that opens into the night sky and a fatal drop. ...

That Time (2000)

The disembodied head of an old man with long white hair listens to three of his own voices: that of maturity, youth and old age. ...

Waiting for Godot in San Quentin (1998)

Documentary about the staging of 'Waiting for Godot' in prison. ...

NEKO-MIMI (1994)

Experimental film in which three girls and one boy lead playful lives. Just as a game, in which the course is determined from beginning to end by certain rules, can be played time and again, their lives are also endless repetition. This eventually results ...

Be Again (1994)

When it's sunset in Purgatory and dawn on the Ganges it's noon on the Irish Sea. Filmed on Killiney Hill outside Dublin with John Manning remembering Samuel Beckett. The text echoes the Purgatory. ...

En attendant Godot (1989)

Two vagabonds, Vladimir and Estragon, meet on stage in a non-place ("Country road with tree") at dusk to wait for "Godot". This man - who will never come - has promised them that he will come to the rendezvous; although it is not clear what he is supposed ...

Endgame (1989)

A performance of Samuel Beckett's 'Endgame', a play in which nothing happens, once - unlike Beckett's first play 'Waiting for Godot' in which nothing happens twice. It is not a play about chess, in any explicit sense, but it does feature a lovable if curmu ...

Godot in San Quentin (1988)

A documentary made at the set up of a theater production, of Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot", directed by Jan Jönson, played by prisoners, at San Quentin State Prison in California.The play is about two men who meet on a lonely country road, waiting ...

Beckett Directs Beckett: Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett (1988)

Two seemingly homeless men waiting for someone or something named Godot. Vladimir and Estragon wait near a tree on a barren stretch of road, inhabiting a drama spun from their own consciousness. ...

Beckett Directs Beckett: Krapp's Last Tape by Samuel Beckett (1988)

Sitting alone on his 69th birthday, Krapp reflects upon the last 30 years of his life as he listens to an old tape recording of himself he made on his 39th Birthday. ...

My Case (1986)

Manoel de Oliveira plays his film in three stages: the first part - a play, the second can be roughly defined as a silent film (with the behind the scenes read excerpts from Beckett works), but in the end the director brilliantly performs the same material ...

Was Wo (1986)

Samuel Beckett directs for German television for the last time. ...

Making Samuel Beckett's 'Rockaby' (1983)

The filmmakers accompany Alan Schneider, director of the American premieres of most of Beckett's plays, and producer Daniel Labeille to the home of Billie Whitelaw, whom Schneider, ironically, had never met previously, and takes us through the rehearsal pr ...

Night and Dreams (1983)

Nacht und Träume (Night and Dreams) is the last television play written and directed by Samuel Beckett and broadcast on 19th May 1983. It is a wordless play, the only sound that of a male voice humming, then singing, from the last seven bars of Schubert's ...

Quad I+II (1981)

Cloaked, cowled figures wander in patterns to rhythm instruments. First transmitted by the Süddeutscher Rundfunk in Germany on 8 October 1981. "Between the two parts there is an intermission of 100,000 years." -S.B. during the rehearsals. ...

Rockaby (1981)

A one-woman play written by Samuel Beckett at the request of Daniel Labeille. The piece was produced by Labeille on behalf of the State University of New York's Programs in the Arts for a festival and symposium in commemoration of Beckett's 75th birthday ...

Happy Days (1980)

Winnie, a woman in her fifties, is buried waist-deep in a mound of scorched earth, with just a large, black shopping bag and a collapsed parasol. Behind her and hidden from view sleeps Willie. ...

He Joe (1979)

A lonely man is taunted by the voice of a woman he once knew. ...

Film (A Screenplay by Samuel Beckett) (1979)

A man attempts to remain hidden from view from the camera and other eyes. ...

Ghost Trio (1977)

A man is waiting, reading a newspaper, looking out of the window, etc., seen first at distance, then again in close-up, and the close-up forces a very intense kind of intimacy. His face, gestures, little sounds. Tired of waiting he ends up getting into bed ...

... nur noch Gewölk ... (1977)

Samuel Beckett directs for German television. ...

Ghost Trio (1977)

A female voice identifies a lone man in a room. The shots cut closer, revealing he is holding a cassette recorder, playing Beethoven's "Ghost" Piano Trio no. 5. The film repeats the imagery, and then shows what he has been reacting to. ...

...but the clouds... (1977)

A woman left behind by a man. Based on a script by Samuel Beckett. ...

Warten auf Godot (1976)

Not I (1973)

Performed at the Royal Court Theatre on 16th January 1973 ...

Krapp's Last Tape (1972)

A 69-year-old man sits alone on his birthday and listens to his past through the form of tape reels he has recorded throughout his life. ...

Waiting for Godot (1971)

Somewhere sits two men, Vladimir and Estragon, waiting for a man named Godot. Internationally acclaimed Swedish TV dramatized version of the classic stage play. ...

Atto senza parole (1969)

Glauco Mauri was the first Italian performer of Acte sans paroles. A unique piece that renounces speech and deconstructs language, expressing itself through the suggestion of mime and grotesque gags reminiscent of early silent films. ...

Eh, Joe? (1966)

The first English broadcast of Eh, Joe? aired on BBC2 on July 4th, 1966 with Jack MacGowran, for whom the play was specifically written, playing Joe and Siân Phillips as Voice. It was directed by Alan Gibson with Beckett in attendance. ...

He Joe (1966)

A lonely man is taunted by the voice of a woman he once knew. ...

Atto senza parole secondo (1966)

Two men on a lonely island. Based on Beckett. ...

Comédie (1966)

a 22-minute French experimental short film directed by Marin Karmitz and Jean Ravel, based on Samuel Beckett's 1963 play. It features actors Eléonore Hirt, Michael Lonsdale, and Delphine Seyrig in a stark, black-and-white adaptation focusing on light and ...

Film (1965)

A man attempts to evade observation by an all-seeing eye. ...

Beginning to End (1965)

A recital of passages from the works of Samuel Beckett, performed by Jack MacGowran, as a raving old man. ...

Tous ceux qui tombent (1963)

A 1963 TV film directed by Michel Mitrani. ...

Waiting for Godot (1961)

Two derelicts occupy themselves as they wait for 'Godot' to make an appearance on Pozzo's estate. ...

Searching for Sam: Adrian Dunbar on Samuel Beckett (2019)

Samuel Beckett has fascinated Adrian Dunbar since he was a young student. Now, 30 years after Beckett's death in Paris, Dunbar explores what made the man who made Waiting for Godot. ...

Barney's Wall (2019)

What makes a rebel? This 78 minute documentary probes the psyche of bad-boy publisher and free speech warrior Barney Rosset, whose mid-century legal and cultural battles smashed sexual and political taboos in the United States — unleashing the counter-cu ...

Notfilm (2015)

NOTFILM is a feature-length experimental essay on FILM -- its author Samuel Beckett, its star Buster Keaton, its production and its philosophical implications -- utilizing additional outtakes, never before heard audio recordings of the production meetings, ...

Waiting for Beckett (1993)

Biography and in-depth look of Beckett and his work. ...

Samuel Beckett: Silence to Silence (1987)

The elusive author of Waiting for Godot cooperated in the production of this portrait, which traces Beckett's artistic life through his prose, plays, and poetry. Billie Whitelaw, Jack McGowran, and Patrick Magee—Beckett's great dramatic interpreters—ap ...

Making Samuel Beckett's 'Rockaby' (1983)

The filmmakers accompany Alan Schneider, director of the American premieres of most of Beckett's plays, and producer Daniel Labeille to the home of Billie Whitelaw, whom Schneider, ironically, had never met previously, and takes us through the rehearsal pr ...

Beckett in Berlin (1969)

Samuel Beckett walks in Berlin in 1969. ...

Samuel Beckett - Mute Interview (1969)

A wordless, silent interview with Samuel Beckett for Swedish Television after Beckett won the Nobel Prize in Literature. ...

If I Had Four Dromedaries (1966)

Composed entirely of still photographs taken by Chris Marker across 26 countries, If I Had Four Dromedaries presents a dialogue between three voices reflecting on the meaning of images and travel. Through this photo-essay form, Marker explores the relation ...