Experimental Beckett
Paperback 75 pages English Apr 30, 2020
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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.
- Author:
- Nicholas E. Johnson
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:
- Apr 30, 2020
- Number of pages:
- 75 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 110873779X
- ISBN-13:
- 9781108737791