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Samuel Beckett and Disability Performance

BuchKartoniert, Paperback
229 Seiten
Englisch
Springererschienen am22.08.20231st ed. 2022
Beckett´s plays have attracted a striking range of disability performances - that is, performances that cast disabled actors, regardless of whether their roles are explicitly described as disabled´ in the text. Grounded in the history of disability performance of Beckett´s work and a new theorising of Beckett´s treatment of the impaired body, Samuel Beckett and Disability Performance examines four contemporary disability performances of Beckett´s plays, staged in the UK and US, and brings the rich fields of Beckett studies and disability studies into mutually illuminating conversation. Pairing original interviews with the actors and directors involved in these productions alongside critical analysis underpinned by recent disability and performance theory, this book explores how these productions emphasise or rework previously undetected indicators of disability in Beckett´s work. More broadly, it reveals how Beckett´s theatre compulsively interrogates alternative embodiments, unexpected forms of agency, and the extraordinary social interdependency of the human body. Winner of the TaPRA David Bradby Monograph Prize, 2023.mehr
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KlappentextBeckett´s plays have attracted a striking range of disability performances - that is, performances that cast disabled actors, regardless of whether their roles are explicitly described as disabled´ in the text. Grounded in the history of disability performance of Beckett´s work and a new theorising of Beckett´s treatment of the impaired body, Samuel Beckett and Disability Performance examines four contemporary disability performances of Beckett´s plays, staged in the UK and US, and brings the rich fields of Beckett studies and disability studies into mutually illuminating conversation. Pairing original interviews with the actors and directors involved in these productions alongside critical analysis underpinned by recent disability and performance theory, this book explores how these productions emphasise or rework previously undetected indicators of disability in Beckett´s work. More broadly, it reveals how Beckett´s theatre compulsively interrogates alternative embodiments, unexpected forms of agency, and the extraordinary social interdependency of the human body. Winner of the TaPRA David Bradby Monograph Prize, 2023.
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ISBN/GTIN978-3-031-04135-8
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Verlag
Erscheinungsjahr2023
Erscheinungsdatum22.08.2023
Auflage1st ed. 2022
ReiheNew Interpretations of Beckett in the Twenty-First Century
Seiten229 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
IllustrationenXXII, 229 p. 13 illus., 12 illus. in color.
Artikel-Nr.54331606

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Chapter 1: Endgame: Anxieties of the Body (Theatre Workshop Scotland, 2007).- Chapter 2: Endgame: Me to Play (The Endgame Project, 2012).- Chapter 3: Not I: Compulsion and Agency (Touretteshero, 2017-2020).- Chapter 4: Waiting for Godot: The Struggle to Be (Culture Device and Hackney Showroom, 2018).- Chapter 5: This.Here: Recuperative and Recuperating (Rosetta Life and Stroke Odysseys, 2019).- Chapter 6: Conclusion: Virtuosic Bodies.mehr

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Autor

Hannah Simpson is Rosemary Pountney Research Fellow at St Anne's College, University of Oxford, UK. She specialises in modern and contemporary theatre and performance, with a particular interest in the work of Samuel Beckett and issues of physical pain and disability. She is also the author of Witnessing Pain: Samuel Beckett and Post-War Francophone Theatre (2022), and the Theatre Review Editor for The Beckett Circle (The Samuel Beckett Society).