Samuel Beckett And The Theatre Of The Witness
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Samuel Beckett and the Theatre of the Witness
Author | : Hannah Simpson |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2022-05-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780192677877 |
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Samuel Beckett and the Theatre of the Witness explores Beckett's representation of physical pain in his theatre plays in the long aftermath of World War II, emphasising how the issues raised by this staging of pain speak directly to matters lying at the heart of his work: the affective power of the human body; the doubtful capacity of language as a means of communication; the aesthetic and ethical functioning of the theatre medium; and the vexed question of intersubjective empathy. Alongside the wartime and post-war plays of fellow Francophone writers Albert Camus, Eugène Ionesco, Pablo Picasso, and Marguerite Duras, this study resituates Beckett's early plays in a new conceptualising of le théâtre du témoin or a 'theatre of the witness'. These are plays concerned with the epistemological and ethical uncertainties of witnessing another's pain, rather than with the sufferer's own direct experience. They raise troubling questions about our capacity to comprehend and respond to another being's pain. Drawing on an interdisciplinary framework of extant criticism, recorded historical audience response, theatre and affect theory, and medical understandings of bodily pain, Hannah Simpson argues that these plays do not offer any easily negotiable encounter with physical suffering, pushing us to recognise the very 'otherness' of another being's pain, even as it invades our own affective sphere. In place of any comforting transcendence or redemption of endured pain, they offer a starkly sceptical, even pessimistic probing of what it is to witness another's suffering.
Samuel Beckett and the Theatre of the Witness
Author | : Hannah Simpson |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2022-06-09 |
Genre | : French drama |
ISBN | : 9780192863263 |
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Samuel Beckett and the Theatre of the Witness explores Beckett's representation of physical pain in his theatre plays in the long aftermath of World War II, emphasising how the issues raised by this staging of pain speak directly to matters lying at the heart of his work: the affective power of the human body; the doubtful capacity of language as a means of communication; the aesthetic and ethical functioning of the theatre medium; and the vexed question of intersubjective empathy. Alongside the wartime and post-war plays of fellow Francophone writers Albert Camus, Eugène Ionesco, Pablo Picasso, and Marguerite Duras, this study resituates Beckett's early plays in a new conceptualising of le théâtre du témoin or a 'theatre of the witness'. These are plays concerned with the epistemological and ethical uncertainties of witnessing another's pain, rather than with the sufferer's own direct experience. They raise troubling questions about our capacity to comprehend and respond to another being's pain. Drawing on an interdisciplinary framework of extant criticism, recorded historical audience response, theatre and affect theory, and medical understandings of bodily pain, Hannah Simpson argues that these plays do not offer any easily negotiable encounter with physical suffering, pushing us to recognise the very 'otherness' of another being's pain, even as it invades our own affective sphere. In place of any comforting transcendence or redemption of endured pain, they offer a starkly sceptical, even pessimistic probing of what it is to witness another's suffering.
Theatre on Trial
Author | : Anna McMullan |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2003-09-02 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781134941124 |
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Theatre on Trial is the first full-length analysis of Samuel Beckett's later drama in the context of contemporary theatre. Audrey McMullan employs a close, textual examination of the later plays as a springboard for exploring ideas around authority, voyeurism, gender and the ideology of stage and TV space. Her application of deconstruction and psychoanalytic feminism to Beckett's work will break new and exciting ground.
Samuel Beckett s Theatre
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Author | : Katharine Worth |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : OCLC:1319580702 |
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Samuel Beckett s dramatic language
Author | : James Eliopulos |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2019-01-14 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9783111342443 |
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Theatre on Trial
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Author | : Anna McMullan |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 155 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 020337598X |
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Samuel Beckett and Disability Performance
Author | : Hannah Simpson |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2022-08-20 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9783031041334 |
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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.
Samuel Beckett s Theatre in America
Author | : N. Bianchini |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2015-02-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781137439864 |
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A study of the 30-year collaboration between playwright Samuel Beckett and director Alan Schneider, Bianchini reconstructs their shared American productions between 1956 and 1984. By examining how Beckett was introduced to American audiences, this book leads into a wider historical discussion of American theatre in the mid-to-late 20th century.