Experimental Beckett: Contemporary Performance Practices

by Nicholas E. Johnson and Jonathan Heron

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 110873779X
• ISBN13: 9781108737791
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 75 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"