It may seem like a hiding to nothing or a mordant little joke, but Olwen Fouéré's appropriately ascetic performance of Samuel Beckett's late prose piece, Lessness – written in fragments and pieced ...

Saxophonist/composer Andy Laster has consistently yet somewhat quietly produced some of the most thoughtful modern jazz recordings in recent years. With this release, the artist puts aside his alto ...

Samuel Beckett's terse prose piece Lessness is an enigma, even by his inscrutable standards. "Ruins true refuge long last towards which so many false time out of mind," runs the opening line. "All ...

The Irish playwright’s 1969 prose poem is reinvented in a 35-minute staging that wears away at your psyche Lessness turns out to be oddly moreish. Samuel Beckett’s brief 1969 prose poem, known as the ...

When William Burroughs described to Samuel Beckett his famous ‘cut-up’ technique — a text is produced by cutting it up and then imposing a random new order upon the shreds — the Irishman was ...