Alan Schneider's production of "Waiting for Godot" collection

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Alan Schneider's production of "Waiting for Godot" collection

1975

Collection includes production notes, lighting layout, script with stage manager's notes, two scripts annotated with directorial comments, two notebooks kept by Sheila Weber of Schneider's commentary on "Godot," copies of articles by Schneider, copies of articles about Samuel Beckett, and a clipping about the Stanford production.

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Beckett, Samuel Barclay, 1906-1989

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Samuel Barclay Beckett was born on Good Friday, April 13, 1906, in Foxrock, Ireland, near Dublin. He studied modern languages at Trinity College in Dublin and graduated in 1927. The following year, Beckett went to Paris, where he quickly became acquainted with a group of avant-garde artists, including James Joyce. There, Beckett taught English at the École Normale Superieure in Paris for two years before returning to Trinity College to teach French in 1930. He left Trinity College after one year...

Schneider, Alan, 1917-1984

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Director Alan Schneider was born Abram Leopoldovich Schneider in Kharkov Russia on December 12, 1917 (There is some confusion surrounding the date--the true date being December 11.) He arrived in New York with his parents, Leopold Victorovich Schneider and Rebecka Samilovna Malkin Schneider, both physicians, on July 4, 1923 and spent his childhood in Maryland where his parents worked in tuberculosis sanatoriums. Mr. Schneider received a B.A. magna cum laude in political Science from the Universi...

Stanford University. Dept. of Drama. Samuel Beckett Festival.

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Weber, Sheila.

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Biographical/Historical Sketch Sheila Weber was senior lecturer in Stanford's drama department from 1975 to 1993. During the summer of 1975, Alan Schneider directed WAITING FOR GODOT as part of the drama department's Samuel Beckett Festival. From the guide to the Alan Schneider's production of "Waiting for Godot" collection, 1975 1975, (Department of Special Collections and University Archives) ...