Noble Prizes - Samuel Beckett

Well, Jeff Bridges did not win an Academy Award this year. A stammering king won instead of a marshal drunk, but at least characters with serious disabilities are taking centre stage.

Samuel Beckett. Drawing: Pencil, ink, transperancy film, 29,7 × 42 cm.

Which leads me to a master in this scenic disciplin, one of my favourite authors, also once awarded with one of the highest awards imaginable: Samuel Beckett. 


When he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969 he refused to attend in the ceremony and asked the gold medal, the diploma plus the cheque to be handed out to his publisher instead - the money then was used on supporting artists and experimental theatre projects.


That brings me back to Jeff Bridges now: Absolutely custom tailored would be the awesome Beckett piece Krapp's Last Tape, featuring  a " ...feeble, nearly blind and deaf, solitary and half-drunk man", as a review stated.


Rooster Cogburn reviewing his life - that would be great, please....!