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About Samuel Beckett
Beckett was born in Ireland in 1906. He departed our world in 1989 but left us with a body of work that will last forever. As a novelist, playwright, theatre director, poet, and translator, Beckett mastered French and English, producing pieces such as En attendant Godot, published in 1952 (Waiting for Godot, 1953), Human Wishes (1936), Footfalls, first performed1976, and Happy Days (1960), among many others. Beckett wrote dramatic pieces for different mediums including theatre, cinema, television, and radio. All That Fall (1956)—the play that this book is based—is one of his plays written for radio. He has a collection of prose and poetry works. The theatre critic and scholar Martin Esslin would argue that Beckett’s work is at the core of the Theatre of the Absurd. Beckett dealt with existentialist questions; his work addresses endless reflections on the human condition, what it means to live in society, and what modernity brought to us.
About the artist
I was born and raised in Venezuela next to my sister in a large family of many cousins, aunts, uncles. At the age of seventeen, I moved to India thanks to a scholarship to study the International Baccalaureate. In India, I learned English and discovered that I could make theatre. In 2016, upon receiving a scholarship to study at New York University Abu Dhabi, I moved to the UAE. I have pursued a double major in Social Research and Public Policy and Theatre, with a minor in Political Science. I have done work in Venezuela, the United States, India, Canada, Italy, Lebanon, and the UAE. My focus has been on service through education. I am interested in theatre making through toys and in directing pieces that push spatial boundaries. I am conducting research about the experiences of Venezuelan
immigrants in Ecuador.
The desert (Abbassi, 2019).
From toys to personas (Alanís, 2020).