Staging Beckett in Great Britain. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• 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.; Note: Description based on print version record.
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