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Experimental Beckett: Contemporary Performance Practices


Experimental Beckett: Contemporary Performance Practices

Paperback by Johnson, Nicholas E. (Trinity College Dublin); Heron, Jonathan (University of Warwick)

Experimental Beckett: Contemporary Performance Practices

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ISBN:
9781108737791
Publication Date:
30 Apr 2020
Language:
English
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Pages:
75 pages
Format:
Paperback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 23 - 28 May 2024
Experimental Beckett: Contemporary Performance Practices

Description

How do twenty-first century theatre practitioners negotiate the dynamics of tradition and innovation across the works of Samuel Beckett? Beckett's own tendencies toward fluidity of genre, iteration/repetition, and collaboration - modes that also define the 'experimental' - allow for greater openness than is often assumed. Reading recent performances for creative uses of embodiment, environment, and technology reveals the increasingly interdisciplinary, international, and intermedial character of contemporary Beckettian practice. The experimentation of current practitioners challenges a discourse based on historical controversies, exposing a still-expanding terrain for Beckett in performance.

Contents

1. Positioning the 'experimental' in Beckett; 2. Text and embodiment ('first the body'); 3. Space and environment ('first the place'); 4. Media and technology ('first both'); 5. Beckett beyond boundaries: a dialogue.

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