Sydney Seminar and the Sydney Writers’ Festival - Celebrating Beckett
The Sydney Seminar will be holding several events in association with the Sydney Writers’ Festival to celebrate the centenary of Samuel Beckett’s birth. Featuring the Australian premiere of the adaptation of Beckett’s short story First Love. Directed by Walter Asmus, the greatest director of Beckett’s work, and starring Lawrence Held, who worked with Beckett.
The Sydney Seminar will be holding several events in association with the Sydney Writers’ Festival:
BECKETT’S FIRST LOVE
The Australian premiere of the adaptation of Beckett’s short story First Love. Directed by Walter Asmus, the greatest director of Beckett’s work, and starring Lawrence Held, who worked with Beckett.
Tuesday May 23
20:00 - 21:15
Sydney Theatre at Walsh Bay
Cost $35/$25
Bookings 9250 1988
First Love
Walter Asmus is the greatest living director of Samuel Beckett’s work. Both he and Lawrence Held had the privilige of working with the great playwright, who guided their adaptation of his short story First Love to the stage production premiered earlier this week.
Thursday, May 25 2006
13:30 - 14:30
SDC Studio 1
Free
Remembering Beckett, Performing Godot
Walter Asmus is one of the most distinguished directors of Beckett’s extraordinary play Waiting for Godot. Lawrence Held performed in it and was directed by Beckett himself while Colin Duckworth edited the first edited edition of Godot in 1966.
Friday, May 26 2006
15:30 - 16:30
Richard Wherrett Studio
Cost: $10/$8
Bookings: 9250 1988
Adapting Beckett
Whether or not you caught the world premiere of First Love earlier in the week, hearing the director Walter Asmus and actor Lawrence Held discuss the process of adapting the story to the stage is fascinating. They’ll describe how Samuel Beckett guided them in their journey to the theatre.
Saturday, May 27 2006
11:30 - 12:30
Sydney Philharmonia Choir Studio
Free
Beckett’s Process of Writing
Dirk Van Hulle has published on Joyce, Marcel Proust and Thomas Mann as well as Beckett, while Anthony Uhlmann compares Beckett to Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Vladimir Nabokov and others and Colin Duckworth looks at Voltaire and other famous French authors. They’ll compare Beckett to other writers: to pinpoint some of the places where Beckett draws on the history of literature and how he differs from other writers.
Saturday, May 27 2006
14:00 - 15:00
Richard Wherrett Studio
Cost: $10/$8
Bookings: 9250 1988
Adaptation
Susan Orlean’s best-selling novel The Orchid Thief was the inspiration for the big-screen movie Adaptation, while Walter Asmus was gently guided by Samuel Beckett when he asked Beckett if he could adapt the short-story First Love for the stage and Mikel Rouse tackled Trumone Capote’s In Cold Blood. This session will be recorded for broadcast on ABC TV.
Saturday, May 27 2006
16:45 - 19:00
ABC TV Studios, Ultimo
Free Event
Bookings Essential: 9250 1988
Download a copy of the program for First Love