Experimental Beckett: Contemporary Performance Practices

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Experimental Beckett: Contemporary Performance Practices
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Nicholas E. Johnson
By (author) Jonathan Heron
SeriesElements in Beckett Studies
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:75
Dimensions(mm): Height 150,Width 230
Category/GenreLiterary studies - from c 1900 -
Literary studies - plays and playwrights
Literary studies - fiction, novelists and prose writers
Literary reference works
ISBN/Barcode 9781108737791
ClassificationsDewey:822.912
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 30 April 2020
Publication Country United Kingdom

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.