Beckett Brunches

Founded by Dúnlaith Bird in 2019, Beckett Brunches offer an informal opportunity for research and artistic creation to come together around Samuel Beckett’s legacy. In this Bordeaux iteration, researchers, students and artists will explore contemporary rewritings of his work, its transmission and its new forms on stage. Bringing critical reflection and artistic experience into dialogue, the discussions will connect translation, creation and new dramaturgies. A Beckettian brunch devoted to sharing—with croissants and chocolatines!

 

Friday 11 December – 9:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m.

Marché des Douves, Bordeaux

 

Morning 

Welcome 9.30 a.m.

  1. Performing after Beckett 1

Roundtable discussion 1  10 a.m. – 10.45 a.m.

Compagnie Koimété (Bordeaux) + playwrights

Students from the Bordeaux Montaigne University  S. Beckett seminar on Not Beckett, the plays and the performance

Roundtable discussion 2  10.45 a.m. – 11.30 a.m.

Matthieu Boisset and Daniel Strugeon (Bordeaux): Jouer et écrire après Beckett

Abdul Basit Mushtaq (Pakistan): Translating Waiting for Godot: Beckett, Urdu, and the Pakistani Stage

Rosanne Bezerra de Araújo (Brésil): Un monde à bout de souffle: le théâtre tardif de Beckett et l’Anthropocène

Coffee, croissants & chocolatines

  1. Translating after Beckett 1

Roundtable discussion 3  11:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Translators of Not Beckett on their experience of translating theatre

Bérengère Pont of L’Ire des Marges (Bègles)

Séverine Magois (France): on translating Daniel Keene after Beckett

Brunch

Afternoon

  1. Performing after Beckett 2. 2 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

ERAS Master’s students: presentation of Beckett-inspired work/playlets.

  1. Translating after Beckett 2

Roundtable discussion 4  2:30 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.

Alyson Polin (Bordeaux): La traduction chez Beckett comme outil de transmission : Entre communication, mémoire et trahison

Waqas Mirza (United Kingdom): Before Reading Endgame: Translating Fin de partie in the Bilingual Classroom

Vanesa Cotroneo (Argentina): Traduire Mittelalterliches Dreieck pour l’Argentine

Coffee break

3. Writing after Beckett

Roundtable discussion  3:30 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.

Elaine Dubourdieu (France): On writing plays after Beckett

Andrea Inglese and Chiara Montini (Italie): Pour continuer encore

Svend-Erik Engh (Denmark): The Stone, the Woman and the Two Becketts: Writing Back to a Theatrical Legacy

4:15 p.m.

Closing words