Experimental Beckett: Contemporary Performance Practices

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

Experimental Beckett: Contemporary Performance Practices
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
30 April 2020
Pages
75
ISBN
9781108737791

Experimental Beckett: Contemporary Performance Practices

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

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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