The Cockpit's 'Mapping Beckett' Series to Launch with BECKETT & THE BIBLE

The new season of Mapping Beckett starts with Beckett's relationship with religion on Sunday 25th September 2016 at 7 p.m. The monthly performed readings and discussion charting the iconic Irish writer's reference points, work and life continues at The Cockpit. Tickets: £7.

Listen to the plays, the poetry, the prose, the letters and some of the source material of Europe's greatest 20th century literary mind, followed by an open discussion with admirers and enquirers alike.

With Peter Marinker, director, Bookshop Theatre, plus Guest readers every month.

"The Bastard, he doesn't exist"

Beckett & The Bible

The Catholic Church was given great political powers by the newly independent Irish Free State. Books, films and magazines were banned as "unwholesome literature."The young Sam Beckett eventually left Dublin in 1938 to live and work in France. He rebelled against all kinds of censorship and references to the Old and New testaments appear in many of his works.

MURPHY, WATT, WAITING FOR GODOT and ENDGAME provide samples of the writer's lack of reverence. Causing offence was right up Sam's street.

For more, visit thecockpit.org.uk/show/beckett_and_the_bible.

Dates coming up...

23rd October: Beckett and the French Connection

27th November: Beckett and the Greeks