Samuel Beckett and Disability Performance (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)

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.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	New Interpretations of Beckett in the Twenty-First Century
Release date:	August 2022
First published:	2022
Authors:	Hannah Simpson
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	229
Edition:	1st ed. 2022
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-104132-7
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Individual actors & performers Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Disability: social aspects Promotions
LSN:	3-03-104132-1
Barcode:	9783031041327

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