Staging Ireland's Dispossessed: Sarah Jane Scaife's Beckett in the City Project

McMullan, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2531-3746 (2017) Staging Ireland's Dispossessed: Sarah Jane Scaife's Beckett in the City Project. Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui, 29 (2). pp. 361-374. ISSN 0927-3131 doi: 10.1163/18757405-02902012

Abstract/Summary

This essay explores the tension between the growing cultural capital of the Beckett ‘brand’ and the issues of dispossession which are at the heart of Beckett’s work through an investigation of selected productions from the Beckett in the City project, a series of site-specific performances of Beckett’s work directed by Sarah Jane Scaife. The discussion of Dublin performances of Act Without Words II (2013) and Beckett in the City: the Women Speak (2015) in marginalised urban spaces draws on writing by Judith Butler and Athena Athanasiou on dispossession.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/67242
Identification Number/DOI	10.1163/18757405-02902012
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	Rodopi
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