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Staging Beckett in Great Britain

Editat de Dr David Tucker, Trish McTighe
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 29 iun 2016
Beckett's relationship with British theatre is complex and underexplored, yet his impact has been immense. Uniquely placing performance history at the centre of its analysis, this volume examines Samuel Beckett's drama as it has been staged in Great Britain, bringing to light a wide range of untold histories and in turn illuminating six decades of drama in Britain.Ranging from studies of the first English tour of Waiting for Godot in 1955 to Talawa's 2012 all-black co-production of the same play, Staging Samuel Beckett in Great Britain excavates a host of archival resources in order to historicize how Beckett's drama has interacted with specific theatres, directors and theatre cultures in the UK. It traces production histories of plays such as Krapp's Last Tape; presents Beckett's working relationships with the Royal Court, Riverside and West Yorkshire Playhouse, as well as with directors such as Peter Hall; looks at the history of Beckett's drama in Scotland and how the plays have been staged in London's West End. Production analyses are mapped onto political, economic and cultural contexts of Great Britain so that Beckett's drama resonates in new ways, through theatre practice, against the complex contexts of Great Britain's regions.With contributions from experts in the fields of both Beckett studies and UK drama, including S.E. Gontarski, David Pattie, Mark Taylor-Batty and Sos Eltis, the volume offers an exceptional and unique understanding of Beckett's reception on the UK stage and the impact of his drama within UK theatre practices. Together with its sister volume, Staging Samuel Beckett in Ireland and Northern Ireland it will prove a terrific resource for students, scholars and theatre practitioners.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781474240178
ISBN-10: 1474240178
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Methuen Drama
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Brings a range of previously unpublished materials into the public domain, from the Victoria & Albert Museum archive, the West Yorkshire Playhouse archive, the Martin Esslin collection at Keble College in Oxford, the Beckett collection at the University of Reading, besides others.

Notă biografică

Trish McTighe is a Postdoctoral Research Assistant at the University of Reading, UK. She is the author of The Haptic Aesthetic in Samuel Beckett's Drama (2013), and has published in several international journals on aesthetics, corporeality and technology in performance.David Tucker is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Chester, UK. He is the author of a number of publications on Beckett, including Samuel Beckett and Arnold Geulincx: Tracing 'a literary fantasia' (Bloomsbury, 2012), and is co-editor with Mark Nixon and Dirk Van Hulle of Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui, Vol. 26 (2014): 'Revisiting Molloy, Malone muert/Malone Dies and L'Innommable/The Unnamable'.

Cuprins

AcknowledgementsInformation on ContributorsForeword, James KnowlsonIntroduction, David Tucker and Trish McTigheSection 1: Origins, Theatres, Directors1. The Arrival of Godot: Beckett, British Theatre and the 1950s, by David Pattie2. Beckett at the Royal Court, by S.E. Gontarski3. Beckett at the Riverside Studios, by Matthew McFrederick, 4. Beckett at The West Yorkshire Playhouse, by Mark Taylor-Batty5. Beckett in London's West End, by John Stokes6. Beckett and Peter Hall, by Sos EltisSection 2: Productions, Locations, Legacies7. A Production History of Krapp's Last Tape in the UK, by Andrew Head8. Staging Beckett's Shorts, by Derval Tubridy9. Talawa's Waiting for Godot, by Kene Igweonu10. Mindscapes Amongst Thistle: Producing Samuel Beckett's Plays in Scotland, by Ksenija Horvat11. Beckett Goes Nude: Breath, Oh! Calcutta! and the Sexual Revolution, Graham Saunders12. 'That first last look in the shadows': Beckett's Legacies for Harold Pinter, David TuckerEndnotesBibliographyIndex