Samuel Beckett and disability performance / Hannah Simpson.
Simpson, Hannah, 1990- author.
2022
PR6003.E282
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Title Samuel Beckett and disability performance / Hannah Simpson.
Author Simpson, Hannah, 1990- author.
ISBN 9783031041334 (electronic bk.)
303104133X (electronic bk.)
9783031041327
3031041321
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04133-4
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (black and white).
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-04133-4 doi
Call Number PR6003.E282
Dewey Decimal Classification 822.912
Summary Becketts 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 Becketts work and a new theorising of Becketts treatment of the impaired body, Samuel Beckett and Disability Performance examines four contemporary disability performances of Becketts 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 Becketts work. More broadly, it reveals how Becketts theatre compulsively interrogates alternative embodiments, unexpected forms of agency, and the extraordinary social interdependency of the human body. Hannah Simpson is Rosemary Pountney Research Fellow at St Annes College, University of Oxford, UK. She specialises in modern and contemporary theatre and performance, with a particular interest in the work of Samuel Beckett and issues of physical pain and disability. She is also the author of Witnessing Pain: Samuel Beckett and Post-War Francophone Theatre (2022), and the Theatre Review Editor for The Beckett Circle (The Samuel Beckett Society).
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Description based on print version record.
Series New interpretations of Beckett in the twenty-first century.
Available in Other Form Samuel Beckett and disability performance.
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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.

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