Beckett in Performance

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Paperback | 4 November 1991

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This book takes a critical look at the work of one of the twentieth-century's most influential playwrights from the viewpoint of those whose job it is to give the work life on the stage. From personal experience of over seventy productions, from interviews with numerous Beckett actors and directors, and in rare conversations with the playwright himself, Kalb addresses such fundamental questions as: is the task of performing Beckett categorically different from that of performing other forms of theatre? Is the audience's role different, and if so, how? The result is a new insight into particular problems of producing Beckett's early and late works, television plays, and prose works adapted for the stage. The book contains numerous performance photographs and an appendix of interviews with actors and directors involved in seminal Beckett productions.

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"This perceptive, personal history of viewing Beckett's plays in production, supplemented by interviews with those artists who acted in and directed them, aims at articulating a poetics of Beckett performance." Choice "...the breadth and depth of [Kalb's] survey of a good-sized sample of those who have devoted themselves to realizing Beckett upon the stage (and screen and radio) give his book enormous value even as an introduction, albeit a special kind of introduction, to his theatre...The result of Kalb's delineation of Beckett's uniquely disciplined existential drama will, for many, be the discovery of an artist whose achievement was even larger and more original than they had thought. For others, there will be much to contend with in these pages, but no one who seeks to understand the process and the experience of his art upon the stage can afford to ignore them." John Swan, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism "...the book has provided for the first time a theatrically driven analysis of the work of this century's greatest playwright." Rick Davis, Theatre Three "In his close attention to production values and in his ability to move from specific performances to general ideas about the nature of theatre and of interpretation, Jonathan Kalb presents a much needed addition to Beckett criticism." Linda Ben-Zvi, Essays in Theatre

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List of illustrations	p. vi
Acknowledgments	p. viii
Introduction	p. 1
Acting	p. 7
Rockaby and the art of inadvertent interpretation	p. 9
Considerations of acting in the early plays	p. 24
Considerations of acting in the late plays	p. 48
Directing	p. 69
Underground staging in perspective	p. 71
Eh Joe, Dis Joe, He Joe: toward a television icon	p. 95
The gamble of staging prose fiction	p. 117
Conclusion: the question of context	p. 144
Beckett and the actor	p. 145
Beckett and the director	p. 149
Terminological digression	p. 154
Less is more - Beckett and the avant-garde	p. 157
Conversations	p. 163
JoAnne Akalaitis	p. 165
Walter Asmus	p. 173
Alvin Epstein	p. 185
Klaus Herm	p. 197
Frederick Neumann	p. 206
Ekkehard Schall	p. 212
David Warrilow	p. 220
Billie Whitelaw	p. 234
Notes	p. 243
Bibliography	p. 264
Index	p. 271
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