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En attendant Godot (Waiting for Godot)

On the occasion of the Beckett centenary, we recall actress Ruth Maleczech, protuding from a large pile of dirt on the stage as Minnie in Beckett's play Happy Days.

Ruth Maleczech as Minnie

Raised and educated in Ireland, Beckett later made his home in Paris. He was fiercely protective of his privacy and the manner in which his work was staged - insisting that it not be deconstructed or reinterpreted, but rather mounted exactly as the stage directions he wrote.

A Young Beckett

RTÉ has produced some Beckett audio that gives us a sense of the man and the volume of work he left.