Experimental Beckett

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Experimental Beckett

Contemporary Performance Practices

Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Literary studies: plays and playwrights Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Literary reference works

Authors: Nicholas E. Johnson, Jonathan Heron

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Collection: Elements in Beckett Studies

Language: English

Published by: Cambridge University Press

Published on: 30th April 2020

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 2 Mb

ISBN: 9781108854962


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.

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