Samuel Beckett and Disability Performance (New Interpretations of Beckett in the Twenty-first Century)

Simpson, Hannah

Palgrave Macmillan（2022/08発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 229 p.
• 商品コード 9783031041327

Full Description

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. 

Winner of the TaPRA David Bradby Monograph Prize, 2023. 

Contents

Chapter 1: Endgame: Anxieties of the Body (Theatre Workshop Scotland, 2007).- Chapter 2: Endgame: Me to Play (The Endgame Project, 2012).- Chapter 3: Not I: Compulsion and Agency (Touretteshero, 2017-2020).- Chapter 4: Waiting for Godot: The Struggle to Be (Culture Device and Hackney Showroom, 2018).- Chapter 5: This.Here: Recuperative and Recuperating (Rosetta Life and Stroke Odysseys, 2019).- Chapter 6: Conclusion: Virtuosic Bodies.