Beckett's Laboratory: Experiments in the Theatre Enclosure
Offering fresh studies of Samuel Beckett in pre-production, in rehearsal, as an innovator of the script form, and as a speculative director and designer, Beckett's Laboratory reconsiders Beckett's stringent approach to stage direction through the lens of the laboratory and reveals his experimentalism with stage representation and composition. Wakeling argues that acknowledging Beckett's experimental processes, from their composition to their reception, is crucial to understanding the innovative representations of humanity that emerged at different stages in Beckett's practice.

Repositioning Beckett's performance oeuvre in relation to philosophy, Wakeling draws upon post-dramatic, symbolist, materialist and post-structural understandings of theatre performance to reappraise Beckett's plays as a composition for performance. The philosophical underpinnings of Beckett's practices are explored through an eclectic mix of familiar and unexplored contemporary theatre productions and films of Beckett's works, including Not I, Nacht und Träume, Happy Days, Footfalls and Catastrophe.

Beckett's Laboratory is a provocative examination of Beckett's experimentalism with the human spectacle and his playful reliance upon the interpretative powers of the actors and audience.
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Beckett's Laboratory: Experiments in the Theatre Enclosure
Offering fresh studies of Samuel Beckett in pre-production, in rehearsal, as an innovator of the script form, and as a speculative director and designer, Beckett's Laboratory reconsiders Beckett's stringent approach to stage direction through the lens of the laboratory and reveals his experimentalism with stage representation and composition. Wakeling argues that acknowledging Beckett's experimental processes, from their composition to their reception, is crucial to understanding the innovative representations of humanity that emerged at different stages in Beckett's practice.

Repositioning Beckett's performance oeuvre in relation to philosophy, Wakeling draws upon post-dramatic, symbolist, materialist and post-structural understandings of theatre performance to reappraise Beckett's plays as a composition for performance. The philosophical underpinnings of Beckett's practices are explored through an eclectic mix of familiar and unexplored contemporary theatre productions and films of Beckett's works, including Not I, Nacht und Träume, Happy Days, Footfalls and Catastrophe.

Beckett's Laboratory is a provocative examination of Beckett's experimentalism with the human spectacle and his playful reliance upon the interpretative powers of the actors and audience.
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Beckett's Laboratory: Experiments in the Theatre Enclosure

Beckett's Laboratory: Experiments in the Theatre Enclosure

by Corey Wakeling
Beckett's Laboratory: Experiments in the Theatre Enclosure

Beckett's Laboratory: Experiments in the Theatre Enclosure

by Corey Wakeling

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Overview

Offering fresh studies of Samuel Beckett in pre-production, in rehearsal, as an innovator of the script form, and as a speculative director and designer, Beckett's Laboratory reconsiders Beckett's stringent approach to stage direction through the lens of the laboratory and reveals his experimentalism with stage representation and composition. Wakeling argues that acknowledging Beckett's experimental processes, from their composition to their reception, is crucial to understanding the innovative representations of humanity that emerged at different stages in Beckett's practice.

Repositioning Beckett's performance oeuvre in relation to philosophy, Wakeling draws upon post-dramatic, symbolist, materialist and post-structural understandings of theatre performance to reappraise Beckett's plays as a composition for performance. The philosophical underpinnings of Beckett's practices are explored through an eclectic mix of familiar and unexplored contemporary theatre productions and films of Beckett's works, including Not I, Nacht und Träume, Happy Days, Footfalls and Catastrophe.

Beckett's Laboratory is a provocative examination of Beckett's experimentalism with the human spectacle and his playful reliance upon the interpretative powers of the actors and audience.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781350153134
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date: 04/22/2021
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 224
File size: 430 KB

About the Author

Corey Wakeling is an Associate Professor at Kobe College, Japan.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations

Introduction
Chapter 1: Laboratory Acts Without Words
Chapter 2: Sensory Deprivation
Chapter 3: Impediment and the Symbolist Dramaturgical Inheritance
Chapter 4: Dream Space, the Other Laboratory
Chapter 5: Catastrophe and the Politics of Spectacle
Chapter 6: Hypnosis: A Theory of Beckett Spectatorship
Chapter 7: Adaphatrôce, or the Contentious Fringes of Beckett's Dramaturgy
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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