Staging Beckett in Great Britain. (2016)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Staging Beckett in Great Britain. (2016)
- Main Title:
- Staging Beckett in Great Britain
- Further Information:
- Note: Edited by David Tucker and Trish McTighe.
- Editors:
- Tucker, David, 1978-
McTighe, Trish - Contents:
- Part 1. Origins, theatres, directors -- 1. The arrival of Godot: Beckett, cultural memory and 1950s British theatre -- 2. 'I think this does call for a firm stand': Beckett at the royal court -- 3. Feckham, Peckham, Fulham, Clapham...Hammersmith: Beckett at Riverside studios -- 4. Beckett at the West Yorkshire playhouse: Happy days, Not I and Krapp's last tape (1993) -- 5. 'A price to be paid': West end Beckett -- 6. 'It's all symbiosis': Peter Hall directing Beckett -- Part 2. Productions, Locations, Legacies -- 7. Krapp's last tape in Great Britain: production history amid changing practice -- 8. 'An unforgettable image': staging Beckett's short plays -- 9. 'The tree has four of five leaves': Talawa, Britishness and the first all-black production of waiting for Godot in Britain -- 10. Mindscapes among thistle: producing Samuel Beckett's play in Scotland -- 11. Contracts, clauses and nudes: Breath, Oh! Calcutta! and the freedom of authorship -- 12. 'That first last look in the shadows': Beckett's legacies for Harold Pinter.
- Publisher Details:
- London, UK : Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication Date:
- 2016
- Copyright Date:
- 2016
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (xxvii, 258 pages)
- Subjects:
- 792.0942
Theatre studies
PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General
English drama
Theater
Other performing arts
Performing Arts -- Theater -- General
Performing Arts -- Theater -- History & Criticism
Literary Criticism -- Drama
Literary studies: plays & playwrights
English drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Theater -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Theater -- Great Britain -- History -- 21st century
Great Britain
Criticism, interpretation, etc
History
Electronic books - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781474240192
1474240194
9781474240185
1474240186 - Related ISBNs:
- 9781474240178
1474240178 - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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