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Staging Beckett in Ireland and Northern Ireland
Staging Beckett in Ireland and Northern Ireland
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This is the first full-length study to focus on Samuel Beckett's drama as it has been staged in Ireland and Northern Ireland.
While Beckett's relationship with his native land was a complex one, the importance of his drama as a creative force both historically and in contemporary practice in those regions cannot be underestimated. The volume brings to light unexamined and little-known productions, for example Beckett's drama in the Irish language, Druid Theatre Company's productions, and Beckett at Dublin's Focus Theatre, as well as previously unpublished archival materials. Leading scholars, such as Anna McMullan and Anthony Roche, and renowned dramatic interpreters of Beckett's work, such as Barry McGovern, explore Beckett's drama within the context of Irish creative theatrical practice and heritage, and point towards the theatrical and performance legacies that follow in its wake.
Production analyses are mapped on to the political, economic and cultural contexts of Ireland and the North so that readers are invited to experience Beckett's drama as resonating in new ways, through theatre practice, against the complex and connected histories of these lands.
Table of Contents
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Foreword, Christopher Murray
Introduction, Trish McTighe and David Tucker
Section 1: Theatre and Performance Histories
1. Beckett at the Abbey, by Anthony Roche
2. Beckett out of Focus: Happy Days and Waiting for Godot at Dublin's Focus Theatre, by Siobhan O'Gorman
3. Reflections on a History of Creating Beckett's Drama in Ireland, by Barry McGovern
4. Beckett in Belfast, by David Grant
5. Voicing Landscapes in Druid's Productions, by Trish McTighe
6. The Gate Theatre's Beckett Festivals: Tensions between the Local and the Global, by David Clare
Section 2: Cultural Contexts
7. Waiting for Godot and the Mediation of Indigence in the Irish performance Tradition, by Paul Murphy
8. Staging Beckett in Ireland: Scenographic Remains, by Anna McMullan
9. In Bantu or in Erse: Beckett and Irish Translation, by Feargal Whelan
Section 3: Expanding the Frame
10. The Culturally Inscribed Body and Spaces of Performance in Samuel Beckett's Drama, by Sarah Jane Scaife
11. Beckett and Non-Place in Irish Performance, by Brian Singleton
12. ”The Neatness of Identifications”: Transgressing Beckett's Genres in Ireland and the United Kingdom, 2000-2015, by Nicolas Johnson
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index
Product details
| Published | Oct 19 2017 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 288 |
| ISBN | 9781474240543 |
| Imprint | Methuen Drama |
| Dimensions | 9 x 5 inches |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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