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Experimental Beckett Nicholas E. Johnson (Trinity College Dublin)

Experimental Beckett By Nicholas E. Johnson (Trinity College Dublin)

Experimental Beckett by Nicholas E. Johnson (Trinity College Dublin)


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Summary

How do twenty-first century theatre practitioners negotiate the dynamics of tradition and innovation across the works of Samuel Beckett? Reading recent performances for creative uses of embodiment, environment, and technology reveals the increasingly interdisciplinary, international, and intermedial character of contemporary Beckettian practice.

Experimental Beckett Summary

Experimental Beckett: Contemporary Performance Practices by Nicholas E. Johnson (Trinity College Dublin)

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.

Table of 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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NLS9781108737791
9781108737791
110873779X
Experimental Beckett: Contemporary Performance Practices by Nicholas E. Johnson (Trinity College Dublin)
New
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2020-04-30
75
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