Special issue on staging Beckett and contemporary theatre and performance cultures

McMullan, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2531-3746 and Saunders, G., eds. (2018) Special issue on staging Beckett and contemporary theatre and performance cultures. Contemporary Theatre Review, 28 (1). Taylor and Francis. doi: 10.1080/10486801.2017.1405393

Abstract/Summary

This special issue of Contemporary Theatre Review devoted to Staging Beckett aims to explore some of Beckett’s living legacies for the discipline of theatre and performance. This includes his impact on actors, designers or directors, on theatre cultures at national and local levels, and on theatre and cultural programming, to the generation of new approaches to theatre and interdisciplinary or intermedial performance and aesthetics, and on our interactions with the performance archive.The Staging Beckett project set out to explore these legacies on actors, directors and approaches to theatre and interdisciplinary or intermedial performance and aesthetics, on theatre cultures at national and local levels, on theatre and cultural programming, and on our interactions with the performance archive. This issue, though inevitably covering only a small selection of case studies mainly from British and Irish contexts, includes articles that cover several of these areas of investigation and suggests that Beckett’s work remains a vibrant presence and inspiration for scholars, practitioners and audiences of contemporary theatre and performance.

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Item Type	Book
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Interdisciplinary Research Centres (IDRCs) > Samuel Beckett Research Centre Arts, Humanities and Social Science > School of Arts and Communication Design > Film, Theatre & Television
Publisher	Taylor and Francis
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