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Samuel Beckett's secret wedding in Folkestone inspires festival 60 years on by Alison Flood

Writer's attempts to stay 'invisible' while marrying Suzanne Déchevaux-Dumesnil will be explored in monologues by well-known authors and actors Sixty years ago, in 1961, Samuel Beckett slipped away to Folkestone to marry his long-time partner Suzanne Déchevaux-Dumesnil at a secret ceremony. Now the playwright and novelist's incognito wedding at the register office in Kent has inspired an immersive multimedia event …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AM on June 2, 2021

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