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Release date: Jan. 31, 2006 Emory Celebrates 100 Years of Samuel Beckett
Emory is joining with Atlanta area theaters that have been producing Beckett's plays for nearly 50 years since "Waiting for Godot" and "Endgame" had their debut at the Academy Theater in 1960. The 1987 festival, "Beckett/Atlanta," brought together Atlanta theaters to produce Beckett's plays in the common space of The Performance Gallery. Now, with a new generation of artists working along side those who have produced Beckett for years, productions of Beckett plays and related works will run from January through May, and September through November, with artists sharing spaces and audiences sharing views. Details about Atlanta productions, upcoming events, and even a study guide for teachers, students and book clubs are available on the Year of Beckett Web site. Events are planned for cities around the world, but Atlanta's "Year of Beckett 2006" celebrates its longstanding connection to the writer. Since 1990, the project to edit "The Letters of Samuel Beckett" has been based in Emory's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Edited by Martha Dow Fehsenfeld and Lois More Overbeck, the four-volume edition will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2007. EVENTS AT EMORY UNIVERSITY February 1-March 2: Residency of Marek Kedziersk Polish-born scholar, translator, and director. Co-sponsors are the Office of International Affairs and the Correspondence of Samuel Beckett project at Emory and Push Push Theater in Decatur, Ga. • February 2: Lecture by Marek Kedzierski: "Between Languages: Translation and Transposition," 4:30-5:30 p.m. Callaway Center, Room 202, Emory. Refreshments and conversation to follow. • February 19: Acting/Directing workshop with Kedzierski. 1-4 p.m. Push Push Theater, Decatur. Sponsored by Emory's Department of Theater Studies in cooperation with Push Push Theater. March 20-26: Residency of Michael Haerdter of Berlin. A dramaturg with Samuel Beckett's production of "Endgame" at the Schiller-Theater Werkstatt, Berlin in 1968, Haerdter was the founding director of Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, and co-director of Res Artis, the International Association of Residential Art Centers. • March 21: Talk and Roundtable: Michael Haerdter."The Peripetetic Artist in a Post-Modern World: Artists and Communities." The talk will be followed by a roundtable discussion featuring Emory faculty, Atlanta artists and guest artist (TBA). 4 -6:30 p.m. The Jones Room, Woodruff Library, Emory University. Co-sponsored by the Correspondence of Samuel Beckett, the Center for Public Scholarship and the Office of International Affairs at Emory and the Goethe Institut in Atlanta. • March 22: Directing/Acting Workshop: 7-10 p.m. Michael Haerdter workshop on Schiller at Push Push Theater. • March 23: Theater Studies Colloquium: Michael Haerdter, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, one of the first artists-residencies in post-war Europe and a model for artist communities throughout the world. Haerdter will speak about the cultural politics that influenced the development of the Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, and will present the Center and its program, and that of Res Artis (the global extension of this model) with slides/video. 4-5 p.m, Studio Theater, Schwartz Center, Emory. • March 26: Directing/Acting Workshops. Michael Haerdter workshop on Beckett. 1-4 p.m. Push Push Theater, Decatur. March 23: Center for Women at Emory Presents Brenda Bynum. "Mary Hutchinson Observed: From Bloomsbury to Beckett," a look at this extraordinary friend and advocate of many of the major avant-garde artists of the 20th century. Presented by the Center for Women at Emory and the Friends of the Emory University Libraries for the Women's History Month celebration of "Women in the Arts." Bynum's research was supported by the Heilbrun Distinguished Emeritus Research Fellowship. 6 p.m. The Jones Room, Woodruff Library, Emory University. April 13: Beckett's 100th Birthday. 6-8 p.m. 7 Stages, 1105 Euclid Ave., Atlanta. May-July: Emory University Theater Studies Department: "Samuel Beckett: From Page to Performance," a class taught by Lois Overbeck and Brenda Bynum, with guests from Atlanta area theaters and involvement with the Theater Communications Group national conference in Atlanta. September: Walter Asmus, Germany, director of Beckett's works internationally, and assistant director with Beckett in Berlin, Stuttgart and Paris. Asmus will be guest director with 7 Stages and Theatre du Ręve. Co-sponsored by the Goethe Institut of Atlanta. TBA: Acting/Directing Workshop at 7 Stages with Walter Asmus. September 30: Lecture, Comparative Literature conference (see below), Time and location TBA. Emory. September 29-30: Comparative Literature Symposium: "Samuel Beckett Between Languages and Genres: Bilingualism, Translation, Transposition." Time and location TBA. Emory. Mid-September to end of October: Film Festival: "Beckett and the Silent Film Tradition." Includes films with Karl Valentine, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Abbott and Costello, and by Serge Eisenstein, as well as of Beckett's direction of "Warten auf Godot" (Berlin). Co-sponsored by the Correspondence of Samuel Beckett, Film Studies, and German Studies at Emory and Atlanta's Goethe Institut, among others. 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