| Reception
Area
For information upon your arrival,
and throughout the course of the Festival, you are invited to
visit the Festival Reception Center in the Dome Rotunda of Memorial
Hall, third floor.
Thursday,
October 9
4:00 p.m. - Celebration
Inaugural Address:
Ruby Cohn, Professor of English Emerita, University of California,
Davis
Title: “Saint Sam
Beckett”
Location: 127 Memorial Hall
8:00 p.m.
- Pierre Chabert
Performance (in French): La Dernière Bande (Krapp’s
Last Tape).
Location: Hartshorn
Theatre
Friday, October
10
10:00 a.m. - Panel on Beckett
Criticism and Scholarship
Panelists:
Tom Cousineau Professor of English, Washington College,
Chestertown, MD
Paper: “Samuel Beckett and the Pursuit of Happiness”
S. E. Gontarski, Sarah Herndon
Professor of English, Florida State University
Paper: “Reading Beckett Through Beckett’s Reading”
Enoch Brater, Professor of English, University of Michigan
Paper: “The Globalization of Beckett's GODOT”
Location: Bayard
Sharp Hall
3:00 p.m. - Presentation
by the editors of the Correspondence of Samuel Beckett:
Lois Overbeck and Martha Fehsenfeld, Research Associates, Graduate
School of Arts and Sciences, Emory University
Lecture
title: "'The Correspondence of Samuel Beckett': Archival
Adventures"
Location: Morris
Library Reserve Room
4:00 p m. Reception in the
Morris Library Reserve Room
8:00 p.m.
Presentation by Ms. Billie Whitelaw, DLit, CBE
Title: “An Evening
With Billie Whitelaw”
Fellow of Reading University
Academy Award Nominee (The
Omen)
Annenberg Fellow
Patron of the Samuel Beckett Foundation
Location: Mitchell
Hall Theatre
Tickets
Tickets for Billie Whitelaw's performance are NOT available
through the website. To obtain tickets:
• Call the Hartshorn Hall box office, beginning September
2, 2003, at (302) 831-2204. The box office is open Monday through
Friday, from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
• Visit the Hartshorn
Hall box office at the corner of Academy Street and East
Park Place in Newark, DE, beginning September 2, 2003.
• Ticket fee may be
waived on the basis of financial need, as per arrangements with
the Delaware Humanities Forum. For information, please call
831-2202.
Ticket Price: $15 general admission
*Because of the demand for tickets
and their limited availability, please purchase them early.
Saturday,
October 11
9:00 -
10:15 a.m. Panel on Translation
Panelists:
Lois Oppenheim,
Professor of French, and Chair Dept. of French, German, and
Russian, Montclair State University
Paper: "Me/Not Me:
Psychic Boundaries, Language Boundaries, and Beckett."
Tom Bishop, Florence Lacaze Gould Professor of French Literature;
Professor of Comparative Literature; Chair, Department of French;
Chair: Center for French Civilization and Culture, New York
University
Paper: "'Heavenly
Father, the Creature was Bilingual': How Beckett
Switched (to French)."
Jean-Michel Rabate, Professor
of English, University of Pennsylvania
Paper: "Morphing Murphy
into French--Beckett's intranslations."
Location: Bayard
Sharp Hall
10:45- 12:00 Panel on Performance
Actors, Directors, Producers: The
Experience of Staging Beckett’s Plays
Panelists:
Pierre Chabert – actor and director, directed by Samuel
Beckett in La Derniere Bande.
Daniel Labeille – Professor
of Theatre and Director and Producer, Executive Producer of
the stage production of Rockaby, directed by Alan Schneider
and performed by Billie Whitelaw and the filming of the rehearsals
and performance.
Xerxes Mehta- Professor of Theatre,
University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and Founding Director
of the Maryland Stage Company. Noted Director of Beckett’s
short plays.
Location: Bayard
Sharp Hall
Noon – Lunchtime reception
Location: Bayard
Sharp Hall
Ongoing
events:
Library Exhibition: Sir Joseph
Gold Samuel Beckett Collection
Location: Special
Collections Gallery, Morris Library
Beckett on Film: Scheduled
showings of 20 Samuel Beckett films
Thursday, October 9, through Saturday, October 11, 2003
Location: Morris
Library Class of 1941 Lecture Room
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