Beckett's Laboratory: Experiments in the Theatre Enclosure

Author:   Corey Wakeling (Kobe College, Japan)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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9781350238770


Pages:   224
Publication Date:   29 December 2022
Format:   Paperback
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Beckett's Laboratory: Experiments in the Theatre Enclosure


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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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Author:   Corey Wakeling (Kobe College, Japan)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Methuen Drama
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 21.20cm
Weight:   0.300kg
ISBN:  

9781350238770


ISBN 10:   1350238775
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   29 December 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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A refreshing and enlightening approach to Samuel Beckett's work as a laboratory where media of expression, liveness, the status of the audience in the creative act and the writing process itself are tested and cultivated. -- Mark Taylor-Batty, University of Leeds, UK


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

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