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Céline Thobois-Gupta @celinethoboisgupta.bsky.social · 4d

Company SJ delivers another deeply moving experience of the Irish lan(d)guage with #Beckett Sa Chreig: Guth Na mBan at @dublintheatrefest.bsky.social. This virtual “Walking the land” with Mná Na hÉireann is a journey through the grief and care of the everyday sublimated by cast, costume and camera.

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Céline Thobois-Gupta @celinethoboisgupta.bsky.social · 8d

Marina #Carr’s The Boy revives Ancient Greek tragic myths and characters for the present times. It redefines the tragic and the performance of #tragedy on the contemporary Irish stage. Masterfully directed, deftly performed, smartly designed.

@abbeytheatre.bsky.social
@dublintheatrefest.bsky.social

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Céline Thobois-Gupta @celinethoboisgupta.bsky.social · 11d

#Hamlet by Chela de Ferrari at @dublintheatrefest.bsky.social had me on the edge of my seat, sinking into it, clinging onto it and springing off it to disco on the stage. What a wonderful show and what wonderful artists! Hope it keeps touring: the world needs it.

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Céline Thobois-Gupta @celinethoboisgupta.bsky.social · 12d

#Whitewashing’s dramaturgy of interweaving demands to slow down, witness and feel histories of oppression, domination and destruction. The actors perform a strong corrective of history through black, ecofeminist poetry and choreography. Left with goosebumps.

@dublintheatrefest.bsky.social

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Céline Thobois-Gupta @celinethoboisgupta.bsky.social · 14d

The @tlrhub.bsky.social is offering a time to reflect on the role of the #arts and #humanities on a #warming #planet as part of its Research Festival. Great to hear more acknowledgment of acts of slow violence, more methods for attunement and the reiteration of the power of storytelling.

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Céline Thobois-Gupta @celinethoboisgupta.bsky.social · 21d

The #Beckett Working Group of the International Federation for #Theatre #Research will meet at the next congress (Melbourne, 6–10 July 2026).
🎭 Theme: '"Nothing to be done": What Samuel Beckett Theatre Does and What We Do with It."
🗓️ Abstract submission deadline: 8 December 2026
📄 Full CFP ⬇️

Samuel Beckett – IFTR

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Céline Thobois-Gupta @celinethoboisgupta.bsky.social · 21d

Check out @tlrhub.bsky.social's excellent programme for the Arts & Humanities Research Festival kicking off on Monday 22 September at 10 am with a conversation between Nicholas Johnson and Gina Moxley about their exciting @dublintheatrefest.bsky.social show.

All free, all welcome.

www.tcd.ie

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Céline Thobois-Gupta @celinethoboisgupta.bsky.social · Aug 21

Fantastic interview of theatre director Yuta Hagiwara about his telephone play Breath after #Beckett's Breath. Interview led by @alshalanamjad.bsky.social & published on her blog dedicated to #Saudi and #world #literatures.

5atrah.wordpress.com/2025/07/24/b...

Between Solitude and Connection: Yuta Hagiwara on Theatre After Disaster

بين العزلة والاتصال: يوتا هاجيورا والمسرح بعد الكارثة Detail: Femmes a la source (1899) by Paul Sérusier In this conversation, Japanese theatre director Yuta Hagiwara opens up about what’s shaped h…

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Céline Thobois-Gupta @celinethoboisgupta.bsky.social · Jun 10

Stimulating panel on #Performance and #Olfactory Becomings at #IFTR2025 with Julia Ostwald and @fredafiala.bsky.social from University of Arts Linz. Both scholars demonstrate how powerful the politics of smell is in shaping our socio-economic and intercultural relations.

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Céline Thobois-Gupta @celinethoboisgupta.bsky.social · Jun 10

Yuta Hagiwara, artistic director of Kamome Machine, is presenting the telephone performance “Breath ” after #Beckett’s Breath at #IFTR2025. This is a unsettling and transformative encounter with modernism, self and other. Don’t miss it if you are at @unicologne.bsky.social!

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Céline Thobois-Gupta @celinethoboisgupta.bsky.social · Jun 10

Great first day at #IFTR2025 with the #Beckett Working Group, reflecting on Beckett’s Grey Carnival. Looking forward to the rest of the week at @unicologne.bsky.social.

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Céline Thobois-Gupta @celinethoboisgupta.bsky.social · May 29

Many thanks, David. I hope you enjoy the book when you receive it. Bonne lecture!

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Céline Thobois-Gupta @celinethoboisgupta.bsky.social · May 29

It's publication day for Samuel #Beckett and #Ecology! Immense gratitude to all colleagues who collaborated on this project over the past years, as well as friends, families & ecosystems who sustained the development of this work.

@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
@tlrhub.bsky.social
#researchmatters

Samuel Beckett and Ecology

This is the first full-length book to investigate Samuel Beckett's work through contemporary ecological thinking, offering a wide range of artistic and scholarl…

www.bloomsbury.com

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Céline Thobois-Gupta @celinethoboisgupta.bsky.social · May 29

@mmrovlje.bsky.social from @universityofleeds.bsky.social presents an insightful paper on Rosa #Luxemburg to reframe #FailingBetter both as a crushing lived reality and a potent political model of revolution and collective action.

#FailWorse Symposium
@tlrhub.bsky.social

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Céline Thobois-Gupta @celinethoboisgupta.bsky.social · May 29

Nathaniel Coleman from @newcastleuni.bsky.social introduces his research on #failure as a different kind of success in #Architecture #pedagogy in the studio. He argues that recoding desire for the new liberates creative desire for fulfilment.

#FailWorse Symposium
@tlrhub.bsky.social

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Céline Thobois-Gupta @celinethoboisgupta.bsky.social · May 29

Excellent and important talk by Jonathan Heron at the #FailWorse Symposium taking place at the @tlrhub.bsky.social: they reflect on how #students enter and exit universities using footages from the screen adaptation of Sally Rooney’s #NormalPeople as a prompt to engage with real experiences.

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Céline Thobois-Gupta @celinethoboisgupta.bsky.social · May 28

Full house at the Hub for @evepatt.bsky.social’s farewell coffee morning as Director of the @tlrhub.bsky.social. Go raibh míle maith agat, Eve, for fostering #arts and #humanities research with such diligence and dedication through the pandemic, as well as many other challenges & more joyful times.

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Céline Thobois-Gupta @celinethoboisgupta.bsky.social · May 28

Fantastic day at the @ria.ie, learning about intersectional and interdisciplinary #ecological practices and reflecting on what the #Arts and #Humanities do and can do. Many thanks to all organisers, particularly @pflonergan.bsky.social, and all speakers!

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Céline Thobois-Gupta @celinethoboisgupta.bsky.social · May 22

I had a great time at the online roundtable "Reading Bodies & #Embodied #Readings in #Modernist Prose and Poetry." Much gratitude to all organisers, particularly to Bowen Wang, for inviting me to present at this event. It was a good opportunity to think again about #Stimmung in #Beckett's novels.

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Céline Thobois-Gupta @celinethoboisgupta.bsky.social · May 22

Thank you to Sarah Alyn Stacey for inviting me to deliver the inaugural annual #Beckett lecture of the French Department at @tcddublin.bsky.social, and many thanks to all attendees for their presence and for an engaging discussion time. It was a joy to discuss Beckett's #French #creative #ecology.

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Céline Thobois-Gupta @celinethoboisgupta.bsky.social · May 22

Happy to send the PDFs upon request: DM me if interested!

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Céline Thobois-Gupta @celinethoboisgupta.bsky.social · May 22

Celebrating my first co-authored papers published in the Journal of #Beckett Studies (34.1)! Many thanks to Prof. Corinna Salvadori Lonergan, Dr. Nicholas Johnson & the editors for co-creating the article on Beckett's #BrownCanon & the theatre review of #GareStLazareIreland's Shades Through a Shade.

Edinburgh University Press Journals - Table of Contents - jobs: Vol 34, No 1

www.euppublishing.com

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Mark O’Brien @obrienpmark.bsky.social · Apr 18

Happy Birthday Michael D Higgins
President, Poet, Leader.
A man with a deep understanding
of the arts and its role in society.
Photo taken on Aran Islands at the
Abbey Theatre production of
Laethanta Shona in July 2021.

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Céline Thobois-Gupta @celinethoboisgupta.bsky.social · Apr 14

Deadline reminder for the special issue of Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui on THE TRAGIC.

🗓 Submission of abstracts in French and in English welcome until 30th April

📩 [email protected]

📌 CfP available at iftr.org/working-grou... (see "Current Projects" section)

Samuel Beckett | IFTR

The Samuel Beckett working group, first convened in 1996, meets every year at the IFTR conference. The group provides a forum for discussions of current rese...

iftr.org

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Abbey Theatre @abbeytheatre.bsky.social · Apr 4

💫FIRST LOOK💫

The Abbey Theatre’s first ever production of Mary Manning’s Youth’s the Season -? is now on until May 3 ⭐

🎟️ Tickets for this dazzling tragicomedy are available from €15: www.abbeytheatre.ie/whats-on/you...

📸 Ros Kavanagh

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