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Originally a short story written in French, Beckett translated it to English as Lessness and scripted it for radio. Washington University holds typescripts and a rare copy of the acting script of Lessness.

"This is the only existing program focusing on works by Samuel Beckett written or adapted especially for the screen"--Container. It includes Not I, Film, Quad, and What Where shown in their entirety. Interspersed among the works are comments about…

Catastrophe : for Václav Havel; illustration by Joseph Mugnaini.

Three short places published inEvergreen Review, no. 98,p. [39]-51

Carbon typescript with one autograph correction by Beckett. This brief dramatic piece was written for and performed at the Samuel Beckett Symposium and 75th birthday celebration at Ohio University, in 1981. directed by Alan Schneider. This is one of…

Includes A Piece of Monologue, Rockaby, Ohio Impromptu

Text shows minor variations when compared with the text published in book form by Faber, 1976.

Program for the November 11, 1973 performance of Krapp's Last Tape and Not I, featuring Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn, directed by Alan Schneider, at Washington University in St. Louis.

In Krapp's Last Tape, only one character appears on stage but Beckett develops a dialogue between two characters, the older Krapp on stage and the voice of Krapp’s younger self played back on the tape recorder. With Not I, Beckett achieved his…

Uncorrected proof copy of 1st edition. Includes Breath, Come and Go: a Dramaticule, Act without Words I: a Mime for One Player, Act without Words II: a Mime for Two Players and From an Abandoned Work