Teaching Beckett is
frightening. Teaching Beckett at the Southbank centre, in the QEH hall, as part
of the groundbreaking Rest is Noise festival, at a free evening study course
open to the general public for free is even more so. Teaching alongside Tom Service
and Charlottle de Ville, even more so yet again. But it went proper well, a
small generous group of people, amazing support staff at the Southbank, and my
focus on the ethical engagement /disengagement of Beckett through paradox and
disjunction in language was well received, not having the skill or expertise to
make a proper ham of historical fact or textual analysis. I just waffled with
purpose and read excerpts from Worstward ho! It could hardly go wrong.
Charlotte and Tom were both inspiring to hear, I genuinely spent hours after
the evening, which felt an easy 150 minutes (!) researching what they were
speaking about. I hadn’t come across Tom Service before, but his work is really
amazing with the BBC radio and the guardian, and I was at Wigmore hall just a
few days later, rediscovering my discovery of classical music.Teaching Beckett for the Rest is Noise study evening at the Southbank centre
Teaching Beckett is
frightening. Teaching Beckett at the Southbank centre, in the QEH hall, as part
of the groundbreaking Rest is Noise festival, at a free evening study course
open to the general public for free is even more so. Teaching alongside Tom Service
and Charlottle de Ville, even more so yet again. But it went proper well, a
small generous group of people, amazing support staff at the Southbank, and my
focus on the ethical engagement /disengagement of Beckett through paradox and
disjunction in language was well received, not having the skill or expertise to
make a proper ham of historical fact or textual analysis. I just waffled with
purpose and read excerpts from Worstward ho! It could hardly go wrong.
Charlotte and Tom were both inspiring to hear, I genuinely spent hours after
the evening, which felt an easy 150 minutes (!) researching what they were
speaking about. I hadn’t come across Tom Service before, but his work is really
amazing with the BBC radio and the guardian, and I was at Wigmore hall just a
few days later, rediscovering my discovery of classical music.