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Ghost Trio (play)
''Ghost Trio'' is a television play, written in English by Samuel Beckett. It was written in 1975, taped in October 1976 and the first broadcast was on BBC2 on 17 April 1977 as part of ''The Lively Arts'' programme Beckett himself entitled ''Shades''. Donald McWhinnie directed (supervised by Beckett) with Ronald Pickup and Billie Whitelaw. The play's original title was to be ''wikt:tryst, Tryst''. "On Beckett’s notebook, the word was crossed out vigorously and the new title ''Ghost Trio'' written next to it. On the title page of the BBC script the same handwritten title change can be found, indicating that it must have been corrected at the very last minute." It was first published in ''Journal of Beckett Studies'' 1 (Winter 1976) and then collected in ''Ends and Odds'' (Grove Press, 1976; Faber, 1977). Its three 'acts' reflect Ludwig van Beethoven, Beethoven's Piano Trios Nos. 5 - 6, Opus 70 (Beethoven), Fifth Piano Trio (Opus 70, #1), known as ''The Ghost'' because of the sl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Beckett
Samuel Barclay Beckett (; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish writer of novels, plays, short stories, and poems. Writing in both English and French, his literary and theatrical work features bleak, impersonal, and Tragicomedy, tragicomic episodes of life, often coupled with black comedy and literary nonsense. A major figure of Irish literature and one of the most influential writers of the 20th century, he is credited with transforming the genre of the modern theatre. Best remembered for his tragicomedy play ''Waiting for Godot'' (1953), he is considered to be one of the last Modernism, modernist writers, and a key figure in what Martin Esslin called the "Theatre of the Absurd." For his lasting literary contributions, Beckett received the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his writing, which—in new forms for the novel and drama—in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation." A resident of Paris for most of his adult life, Beckett wrote in both Frenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
