Rough for Radio II Script
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Title
Rough for Radio II Script
Subject
Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989. Rough for Radio II.
Description
Mimeographed actor's script for Martin Esslin's production of this radio play, starring Beckett’s three friends, Harold Pinter, Billie Whitelaw and Patrick Magee. Broadcast on the BBC as part of Beckett’s 70th birthday celebration.
Creator
Beckett, Samuel
Source
MSS008 Box 3 Folder 63
Publisher
London: British Broadcasting Co.
Date
1976
Relation
Director Martin Esslin wrote to Beckett with questions about the script, to which Beckett replied on 13 February 1976:
"Your queries:
a) Dick should be silent except when called on to act. Then, if you like, some sound of effort as he gathers himself together to strike, before swish of pizzle. Then we could have this sound alone when he is called on to act and need not..."
And on 19 February 1976:
"I don't think they should leave at the end. If we settle for Billie drying her pretty eyes, with faint sob for good value, it seems to me that would be, as my granny used to say, an "ample sufficiency"."
-The Letters of Samuel Beckett: 1966-1989, pp. 421-3
"Your queries:
a) Dick should be silent except when called on to act. Then, if you like, some sound of effort as he gathers himself together to strike, before swish of pizzle. Then we could have this sound alone when he is called on to act and need not..."
And on 19 February 1976:
"I don't think they should leave at the end. If we settle for Billie drying her pretty eyes, with faint sob for good value, it seems to me that would be, as my granny used to say, an "ample sufficiency"."
-The Letters of Samuel Beckett: 1966-1989, pp. 421-3
Actors in Beckett's Plays exhibit case
Format
typescript [photocopy], six pages
jpeg, 300 ppi
Language
English
Type
Manuscript
Identifier
MSS008_II_rough_for_radio_00_b3_f63.jpg; MSS008_II_rough_for_radio_01_b3_f63.jpg; MSS008_II_rough_for_radio_02_b3_f63.jpg; MSS008_II_rough_for_radio_03_b3_f63.jpg; MSS008_II_rough_for_radio_04_b3_f63.jpg; MSS008_II_rough_for_radio_05_b3_f63.jpg
Extent
15 leaves
6 scans
Citation
Beckett, Samuel, “Rough for RadioII Script ,” WUSTL Digital Gateway Image Collections & Exhibitions, accessed July 14, 2024, http://omeka.wulib.wustl.edu/omeka/items/show/14915.
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