Staging Beckett in Great Britain (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Tucker, David; McTighe, Trish

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474240192
• Artikelnr.: 44979817

Autorenporträt

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'.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Information on Contributors Foreword
James Knowlson Introduction
David Tucker and Trish McTighe Section 1: Origins
Theatres
Directors 1. The Arrival of Godot: Beckett
British Theatre and the 1950s
by David Pattie 2. Beckett at the Royal Court
by S.E. Gontarski 3. Beckett at the Riverside Studios
by Matthew McFrederick
4. Beckett at The West Yorkshire Playhouse
by Mark Taylor-Batty 5. Beckett in London's West End
by John Stokes 6. Beckett and Peter Hall
by Sos Eltis Section 2: Productions
Locations
Legacies 7. A Production History of Krapp's Last Tape in the UK
by Andrew Head 8. Staging Beckett's Shorts
by Derval Tubridy 9. Talawa's Waiting for Godot
by Kene Igweonu 10. Mindscapes Amongst Thistle: Producing Samuel Beckett's Plays in Scotland
by Ksenija Horvat 11. Beckett Goes Nude: Breath
Oh! Calcutta! and the Sexual Revolution
Graham Saunders 12. 'That first last look in the shadows': Beckett's Legacies for Harold Pinter
David Tucker Endnotes Bibliography Index