"does."" While Waiting for Godot While Waiting for Godot is a web series adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s play ""En Attendant Godot"". It is the winner of Best Cinematography at the 2014 Rome Web Awards, and an Official Selection of the 2014 Miami Web Fest. The screenplay is based on a 2013 translation (by director Rudi Azank), ""in order to restore the language of Beckett’s more risqué original French script (the English script of the play has always been heavily censored). Also more present in the original manuscript are strong Vaudevillian and Jewish aspects of Didi and Gogo, the two lead"
"Minuit, including the poioumenon ""trilogy"" of novels: ""Molloy"" (1951); ""Malone meurt"" (1951), ""Malone Dies"" (1958); ""L'innommable"" (1953), ""The Unnamable"" (1960). Despite being a native English speaker, Beckett wrote in French because—as he himself claimed—it was easier for him thus to write ""without style"". Beckett is most famous for his play ""En attendant Godot"" (1953) (""Waiting for Godot""). Like most of his works after 1947, the play was first written in French with the title ""En attendant Godot"". Beckett worked on the play between October 1948 and January 1949. His partner, Suzanne Dechevaux-Dumesnil, was integral to its success. Dechevaux-Dumesnil became his"
"be one of the greatest masters of comedy of the Western literature, wrote dozens of plays, including ""Le Misanthrope"", ""L'Avare"", ""Le Malade imaginaire"", and ""Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme"". His plays have been so popular around the world that French language is sometimes dubbed as ""the language of Molière"" (""la langue de Molière""), just like English is considered as ""the language of Shakespeare"". French literature and poetry flourished even more in the 18th and 19th centuries. Denis Diderot's best-known works are ""Jacques the Fatalist"" and ""Rameau's Nephew"". He is however best known for being the main redactor of the ""Encyclopédie"", whose aim"
"""""La Fin"""", or ""The End""), not realizing that Beckett had only submitted the first half of the story; Simone de Beauvoir refused to publish the second part. Beckett also began to write his fourth novel, ""Mercier et Camier"", which was not published until 1970. The novel presaged his most famous work, the play ""Waiting for Godot"", which was written not long afterwards. More importantly, the novel was Beckett’s first long work that he wrote in French, the language of most of his subsequent works which were strongly supported by Jérôme Lindon director of his parisian publishing house Les Éditions de"
"from 1822 to 1866. Jacques-François Ancelot Jacques-Arsène-Polycarpe-François Ancelot (9 January 1794 – 7 September 1854) was a French dramatist and litterateur. Born in Le Havre, Ancelot became a clerk in the admiralty, and retained his position until the Revolution of 1830. In 1816 his play ""Warwick"" was accepted by the Théâtre Français, but never produced, and three years later a five-act tragedy, ""Louis IX"", was staged. Three editions of the play were speedily exhausted; it had a run of fifty representations, and brought him a pension of 2000 francs from Louis XVIII. His next work, ""Le Maire du palais"", was"
"of simplifying his style, a change also evidenced in ""Watt"". After World War II, Beckett turned definitively to the French language as a vehicle. It was this, together with the ""revelation"" experienced in his mother's room in Dublin—in which he realized that his art must be subjective and drawn wholly from his own inner world—that would result in the works for which Beckett is best remembered today. During the 15 years following the war, Beckett produced four major full-length stage plays: ""En attendant Godot"" (written 1948–1949; ""Waiting for Godot""), ""Fin de partie"" (1955–1957; ""Endgame""), ""Krapp's Last Tape"" (1958), and ""Happy"
"Gascoyne starred in a staging of the play at both the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow and HOME in Manchester. Endgame (play) Endgame, by Samuel Beckett, is a one-act play with four characters. It was originally written in French (entitled ""Fin de partie""); Beckett himself translated it into English. The play was first performed in a French-language production at the Royal Court Theatre in London, opening on 3 April 1957. It is commonly considered, along with such works as ""Waiting for Godot"", to be among Beckett's best works. The play was premiered on 3 April 1957 at the Royal Court Theatre,"
"Nicolas-Julien Forgeot Nicolas-Julien Forgeot (July 1758, Paris – 4 April 1798) was an 18th-century French librettist, man of letters and playwright. At first Forgeot devoted himself to literature only as a pastime, and was almost entirely involved in the occupations that gave him a rather important job as an inspector of the postes. His first play, ""les Rivaux amis"" was a real trifle. The dialogue was so cut that there were not three tirades with six verse: everything rolled on words that skillful players argued. These kinds of plays, very fashionable some years before the Revolution, were canvasses on which"
"René de Chazet René de Chazet, full name René André Polydore Balthazar Alissan de Chazet, (23 October 1774 – 23 August 1844) was a French playwright, poet and novelist. The son of an annuities controller, parent of Mackau, the ambassador of Naples, he accompanied him to Italy in 1792 and returned to France only in 1797. He collaborated with many newspapers and became known for his numerous plays, many of which written in collaboration with Charles-Augustin Sewrin. These plays were given in the most important Parisian stages of the first half of the XIXe century: Théâtre des Variétés, Comédie-Française, Théâtre"
"Samuel Beckett Samuel Barclay Beckett (; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, poet, and literary translator who lived in Paris for most of his adult life. He wrote in both English and French. Beckett's work offers a bleak, tragicomic outlook on human existence, often coupled with black comedy and gallows humor, and became increasingly minimalist in his later career. He is considered one of the last modernist writers, and one of the key figures in what Martin Esslin called the ""Theatre of the Absurd"". Beckett was awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize"
"Complete Dramatic Works"" carries only three dedications from Beckett: ""Endgame"" is dedicated to Blin, while ""Come and Go"" is for John Calder, and ""Catastrophe"" is for Václav Havel. Roger Blin Roger Blin (Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, 22 March 1907 – Évecquemont, France, 21 January 1984) was a French actor and director notable for staging world premieres of Samuel Beckett's ""Waiting for Godot"" in 1953 and ""Endgame"" (play) in 1957. Blin was the son of a doctor; however, despite his father's wishes, Blin forged a career in the theatre. Initially part of the left-wing theatre collectives ""The Company of Five"" and ""The October"
"Endgame (play) Endgame, by Samuel Beckett, is a one-act play with four characters. It was originally written in French (entitled ""Fin de partie""); Beckett himself translated it into English. The play was first performed in a French-language production at the Royal Court Theatre in London, opening on 3 April 1957. It is commonly considered, along with such works as ""Waiting for Godot"", to be among Beckett's best works. The play was premiered on 3 April 1957 at the Royal Court Theatre, London, directed by Roger Blin, who also played Hamm; Jean Martin was Clov, Georges Adet was Nagg and Christine"
"three books in three years and so sold it to Barney Rosset in 1951 for three thousand dollars. Under Rosset's leadership, Grove introduced American readers to European avant-garde literature and theatre, including French authors Alain Robbe-Grillet, Jean Genet, and Eugène Ionesco. In 1954 Grove published Samuel Beckett's play ""Waiting for Godot"" after it had been refused by more mainstream publishers. Since then Grove has been Beckett's U.S. publisher. Grove is also the U.S. publisher of the works of Harold Pinter; in 2006 it published a collection called ""The Essential Pinter"", which includes Pinter's Nobel Lecture, entitled ""Art, Truth & Politics"".In"
"of An Taidhbhearc, a theatre dedicated to the Irish language. The Gate Theatre, also founded in 1928 under the direction of Hilton Edwards and Micheál MacLiammoir, introduced Irish audiences to many of the classics of the European stage. The twentieth century saw a number of Irish playwrights come to prominence. Samuel Beckett is probably the most significant of these. Beckett had a long career as a novelist and poet before his first play, ""Waiting for Godot"" (1953) made him famous. This play, along with his second, ""Endgame"", is one of the great works of absurdist theatre. Beckett was awarded for"
"Molière Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière (; ; 15 January 162217 February 1673), was a French playwright, actor and poet, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the French language and universal literature. His extant works includes comedies, farces, tragicomedies, comédie-ballets, and more. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed at the Comédie-Française more often than those of any other playwright today. His influence is such that the French language itself is often referred to as the ""language of Molière"". Born into a prosperous family and having studied at"
"Jacques-François Ancelot Jacques-Arsène-Polycarpe-François Ancelot (9 January 1794 – 7 September 1854) was a French dramatist and litterateur. Born in Le Havre, Ancelot became a clerk in the admiralty, and retained his position until the Revolution of 1830. In 1816 his play ""Warwick"" was accepted by the Théâtre Français, but never produced, and three years later a five-act tragedy, ""Louis IX"", was staged. Three editions of the play were speedily exhausted; it had a run of fifty representations, and brought him a pension of 2000 francs from Louis XVIII. His next work, ""Le Maire du palais"", was played in 1825 with"
"performance was cancelled due to lack of CAC funding, as well as controversy over the perceived imperialist messages of the play. A ""radical deconstruction"" entitled ""Sinking Neptune"" was performed as part of the 2006 Montreal Infringement Festival, despite the cancellation of the event it protested. Order of Good Cheer Marc Lescarbot Marc Lescarbot (c. 1570–1641) was a French author, poet and lawyer. He is best known for his ""Histoire de la Nouvelle-France"" (1609), based on his expedition to Acadia (1606–1607) and research into French exploration in North America. Considered one of the first great books in the history of Canada,"
"Jacques Pradon Jacques Pradon, often called Nicolas Pradon (1632 – 14 January 1698), was a French playwright. Early in his career, he was helped by Pierre Corneille and was introduced to the salons at the Hôtel de Nevers and the Hôtel de Bouillon by Madame Deshoulières. Pradon was born in Rouen and is the author of eight tragedies: ""Pyrame et Thisbé"" (1674) (see Pyramus and Thisbe), ""Tamerlan, ou la mort de Bajazet"" (1676), ""Phèdre et Hippolyte"" (1677), ""La Troade"" (1679), ""Statira"" (1680), ""Regulus"" (1688), ""Germanicus"" (1694) and ""Scipion"" (1697). His plays enjoyed a certain limited success, but were severely judged"
"Jean Poiret Jean Poiret, born Jean Poiré, (17 August 1926 in Paris – 14 March 1992) was a French actor, director, and screenwriter. He is primarily known as the author of the original play ""La Cage Aux Folles"". Poiret first rose to prominence in 1951 playing the role of Fred Transport, one of the heroes of Pierre Dac and Francis Blanche's radio series ""Malheur aux Barbus"". In 1952, he met his future co-star of ""La Cage"" Michel Serrault at the Sarah Bernhardt Theatre. Together, they starred in the sketch ""Jerry Scott, Vedette Internationale"" In 1961, Poiret, as a member of"
"aged 86. Jean Martin Jean Martin (6 March 1922 – 2 February 2009) was a French actor of stage and screen. Martin served in the French Resistance during World War II and later fought with the French paratroopers in Indochina. Theatrically, he is perhaps best known for originating two roles in Samuel Beckett's most famous plays: Lucky in ""Waiting for Godot"", and Clov in ""Endgame"". During the 1950s, he was a performer at the Théâtre National Populaire and also worked for radio plays. Making over eighty film and television appearances, Martin is probably best remembered by international audiences for his"
"Marc Almond and Michael Cashmore. Both poems were adapted and translated by Jeremy Reed. ""1960s"" ""1970s"" ""1980s"" Jean Genet Jean Genet (; – ) was a French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. Early in his life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but he later took to writing. His major works include the novels ""The Thief's Journal"" and ""Our Lady of the Flowers"", and the plays ""The Balcony"", ""The Maids"" and ""The Screens"". Genet's mother was a prostitute who raised him for the first seven months of his life before putting him up for adoption. Thereafter Genet"
"John Calder John Mackenzie Calder (25 January 1927 – 13 August 2018) was a Scottish Canadian writer and publisher who founded Calder Publishing in 1949. Calder was born in Montreal, Canada, into the Calder family associated with the brewing industry in Alloa, Scotland, and spent his childhood in Kinross, before studying economics in Zurich, Switzerland, in the late 1940s. He was a friend of Samuel Beckett, becoming the main publisher of his prose-texts in Britain after the success of ""Waiting for Godot"" on the London stage in 1955–56. During the 1950s, Calder published the translated work of Anton Chekhov, Leo"
"Roger Blin Roger Blin (Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, 22 March 1907 – Évecquemont, France, 21 January 1984) was a French actor and director notable for staging world premieres of Samuel Beckett's ""Waiting for Godot"" in 1953 and ""Endgame"" (play) in 1957. Blin was the son of a doctor; however, despite his father's wishes, Blin forged a career in the theatre. Initially part of the left-wing theatre collectives ""The Company of Five"" and ""The October Group"", Blin assisted Antonin Artaud in producing the latter's ""The Cenci"" at the Folies-Wagrams theatre in 1935. During the war, Blin was a liaison between the Resistance and"
"L'amant jaloux L'amant jaloux, ou Les fausses apparences (""The Jealous Lover, or False Appearances"") is a French comédie mêlée d'ariettes in three acts by André Grétry first performed at Versailles on 20 November 1778. The libretto is by the Irish playwright Thomas Hales (also known by the French name Thomas d'Hèle) with the verse passages provided by F. Levasseur. It was based on the play ""The Wonder: A Woman Keeps a Secret"" (1714) by Susannah Centlivre. The most famous arias in the opera include ""O douce nuit"", the tenor serenade ""Tandis que tout sommeille"" (recorded by Roberto Alagna, amongst others)"
"1834. Étienne Gosse Étienne Gosse (Bordeaux, 1773 – Toulon, 21 February 1834) was an 18th–19th-century French playwright, chansonnier, and journalist. In 1793 he volunteered in the army and quickly became an officer and secretary at the arsenal in Nantes. Wounded during the war in the Vendée in 1796, he retired from service. A proponent of liberal ideas in ""le Miroir"" and ""la Pandore"", his plays were presented on the most important Parisian stages of his time including the Théâtre de la Gaîté, the Théâtre Français, and the Théâtre des Variétés. He died from a stroke of apoplexy in Toulon 21"
"Louis Verneuil Louis Jacques Marie Collin du Bocage (14 May 1893 – 3 November 1952), better known by the pen name Louis Verneuil, was a French playwright, screenwriter, and actor. Born in Paris, Verneuil wrote approximately sixty plays and was best known for comedy. Many of his works were produced on Broadway including ""Monsieur Lamberthier"", adapted into ""Jealousy"" (1928) starring John Halliday and Fay Bainter, and subsequently adapted again in 1946 as ""Obsession"" with Eugenie Leontovich and Basil Rathbone; and ""Affairs of State"" (1950) which starred Celeste Holm and Harry Bannister. ""Affairs of State"" ran for 610 performances at the"
"and fifteen children, the youngest being only nine months old. On September 14, 2006, an epigraph, in memory of the composer, was affixed to the facade of the house he inhabited at 170 13th Street, in the Limoilou neighborhood of Quebec City. Joachim Ulric Voyer Joachim Ulric Voyer, was born on July 5, 1892 in Saint-Roch, Quebec City (province of Quebec) and died on January 8, 1935, at the age of 42, in the same city. He was a Canadian opera composer, whose opera L'Intendant Bigot, created in Montreal on February 5 and 7, 1929, is considered to be one"
"Sagnier. Molière Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière (; ; 15 January 162217 February 1673), was a French playwright, actor and poet, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the French language and universal literature. His extant works includes comedies, farces, tragicomedies, comédie-ballets, and more. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed at the Comédie-Française more often than those of any other playwright today. His influence is such that the French language itself is often referred to as the ""language of Molière"". Born into a prosperous family and having studied"
"on 22 May 1871, of the Théâtre des Menus-Plaisirs. Administrator dof the Théâtre Déjazet (1874–1875), general secretary of the Théâtre de la République (1897), he married the actress Eudoxie Laurent in 1862. He wrote more than two hundred plays which were presented on the most important Parisian stages of the 19th century: Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, Théâtre du Vaudeville, Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques etc. Amédée de Jallais Amédée de Jallais (17 December 1826 – 31 January 1909) was a 19th-century French playwright, operetta librettist and chansonnier. The son of a lieutenant colonel in the guards, he studied at the College Bourbon"
"S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award in 1993 for ""Les reines"". He has also translated a number of plays into French, including Friedrich Schiller's ""Mary Stuart"", Henrik Ibsen's ""Hedda Gabler"" and works by Shakespeare. As well, his translation of ""Romeo and Juliet"" was directed by Yves Desgagné as the 2006 film ""Roméo et Juliette"", He was named an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2004. Normand Chaurette Normand Chaurette (born July 9, 1954 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian playwright, best known as one of the first prominent writers of LGBT-themed plays in Quebec and Canada. Chaurette's career began in"
"de Mai."" The opera ""Andrea del Sarto"" (1968) by French composer Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur (1908–2002) was based on Musset's play ""André del Sarto"". ""Lorenzaccio"", which takes place in Medici's Florence, was set to music by the musician Sylvano Bussotti in 1972. Shane Briant plays Alfred de Musset in a ""Masterpiece Theatre"" production of ""Notorious Woman"" in 1974. In 2007, Céline Dion recorded a song called ""Lettre de George Sand à Alfred de Musset"" for her album ""D'elles"". Alfred de Musset Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay (; 11 December 1810 – 2 May 1857) was a French dramatist, poet, and novelist. Along"
"Harold Pinter Harold Pinter (; 10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008) was a Nobel Prize-winning British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. One of the most influential modern British dramatists, his writing career spanned more than 50 years. His best-known plays include ""The Birthday Party"" (1957), ""The Homecoming"" (1964), and ""Betrayal"" (1978), each of which he adapted for the screen. His screenplay adaptations of others' works include ""The Servant"" (1963), ""The Go-Between"" (1971), ""The French Lieutenant's Woman"" (1981), ""The Trial"" (1993), and ""Sleuth"" (2007). He also directed or acted in radio, stage, television, and film productions of his own and"
"sorts of country dances). After the death of Jules he continued to write novels alone. He bequeathed his entire estate for the foundation and maintenance of the Académie Goncourt. In honour of his brother and collaborator, Jules de Goncourt (17 December 183020 June 1870), each December since 1903, the Académie awards the Prix Goncourt. It is the most prestigious prize in French language literature, given to ""the best imaginary prose work of the year"". Marcel Proust, Simone de Beauvoir, Michel Tournier, Marguerite Duras, Romain Gary (who exceptionally won it twice) and Nobel Prize Patrick Modiano are among the best-known authors"