Samuel Beckett And Disability Performance

Author : Hannah Simpson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783031041334

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Samuel Beckett and Disability Performance by Hannah Simpson Pdf

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.

Author : Kirsty Johnston
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781472510358

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Disability Theatre and Modern Drama by Kirsty Johnston Pdf

Bertolt Brecht's silent Kattrin in Mother Courage, or the disability performance lessons of his Peachum in The Threepenny Opera; Tennessee Williams' limping Laura Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie and hard-of-hearing Bodey in A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur; Samuel Beckett's blind Hamm and his physically disabled parents Nagg and Nell in Endgame – these and many further examples attest to disability's critical place in modern drama. This Companion explores how disability performance studies and theatre practice provoke new debate about the place of disability in these works. The book traces the local and international processes and tensions at play in disability theatre, and offers a critical investigation of the challenges its aesthetics pose to mainstream and traditional practice. The book's first part surveys disability theatre's primary principles, critical terms, internal debates and key challenges to theatre practice. Examining specific disability theatre productions of modern drama, it also suggests how disability has been re-envisaged and embodied on stage. In the book's second part, leading disability studies scholars and disability theatre practitioners analyse and creatively re-imagine modern drama, demonstrating how disability aesthetics press practitioners and scholars to rethink these works in generative, valuable and timely ways.

Author : Ralf Remshardt,Aneta Mancewicz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 978 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000913644

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The Routledge Companion to Contemporary European Theatre and Performance by Ralf Remshardt,Aneta Mancewicz Pdf

This is a comprehensive overview of contemporary European theatre and performance as it enters the third decade of the twenty-first century. It combines critical discussions of key concepts, practitioners, and trends within theatre-making, both in particular countries and across borders, that are shaping European stage practice. With the geography, geopolitics, and cultural politics of Europe more unsettled than at any point in recent memory, this book’s combination of national and thematic coverage offers a balanced understanding of the continent’s theatre and performance cultures. Employing a range of methodologies and critical approaches across its three parts and ninety-four chapters, this book’s first part contains a comprehensive listing of European nations, the second part charts responses to thematic complexes that define current European performance, and the third section gathers a series of case studies that explore the contribution of some of Europe’s foremost theatre makers. Rather than rehearsing rote knowledge, this is a collection of carefully curated, interpretive accounts from an international roster of scholars and practitioners. The Routledge Companion to Contemporary European Theatre and Performance gives undergraduate and graduate students as well as researchers and practitioners an indispensable reference resource that can be used broadly across curricula.

Author : Jonathan Kalb
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1991-09-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521423791

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Beckett in Performance by Jonathan Kalb Pdf

A critical look at the work of one of the twentieth century's most influential playwrights emerges from the viewpoint of numerous Beckett actors and directors and includes the author's personal experiences as well.

Author : Bernie Warren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015016189980

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Disability and Social Performance by Bernie Warren Pdf

Author : Michael Y. Bennett
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 803 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781040001615

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The Routledge Companion to Absurdist Literature by Michael Y. Bennett Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Absurdist Literature is the first authoritative and definitive edited collection on absurdist literature. As a field-defining volume, the editor and the contributors are world leaders in this ever-exciting genre that includes some of the most important and influential writers of the twentieth century, including Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, Edward Albee, Eugene Ionesco, Jean Genet, and Albert Camus. Ever puzzling and always refusing to be pinned down, this book does not attempt to define absurdist literature, but attempts to examine its major and minor players. As such, the field is indirectly defined by examining its constituent writers. Not only investigating the so-called “Theatre of the Absurd,” this volume wades deeply into absurdist fiction and absurdist poetry, expanding much of our previous sense of what constitutes absurdist literature. Furthermore, long overdue, approximately one-third of the book is devoted to marginalized writers: black, Latin/x, female, LGBTQ+, and non-Western voices.

Author : Anna McMullan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000378498

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Theatre on Trial by Anna McMullan Pdf

This book, first published in 1993, is the first full-length analysis of Samuel Beckett’s later drama in the context of contemporary critical and performance theory. It employs a close, textual examination of the later plays as a springboard for exploring ideas around authority, gender and the ideology of performance. Recent work in the world of critical theory has suggested new ways of looking at performance practice. McMullan argues that, while contemporary theory can deepen our understanding of Beckett’s dramatic practice, his drama places performance in the context of a metaphysical history and a metatheatrical tradition, thereby confronting and provoking some of the central debates in performance studies’ engagement with critical theory.

Author : Elena Backhausen,Benjamin Wihstutz,Noa Winter
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000889147

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Out of Time? by Elena Backhausen,Benjamin Wihstutz,Noa Winter Pdf

Out of Time? has many different meanings, amongst them outmoded, out of step, under time pressure, no time left, or simply delayed. In the disability context, it may also refer to resistant attitudes of living in “crip time” that contradict time as a linear process with a more or less predictable future. According to Alison Kafer, “crip time bends the clock to meet disabled bodies and minds.” What does this mean in the disability arts? What new concepts of accessibility, crip futures, and crip resistance can be staged or created by disability performance? And how does the notion of “out of time” connect crip time with pandemic time in disability performance? The collective volume seeks to respond to these questions by exploring crip time in disability performance as both a concept and a phenomenon. The book tackles the topic from two angles: on the one hand from a theoretical point of view that connects performance analysis with crip and performance theory, on the other hand from a practice-based perspective of disability artists who develop new concepts and dramaturgies of crip time based on their own lived experiences and observations in the field of the performing and disability arts. The book gathers different types of text genres, forms, and styles that mirror the diversity of their authors. Besides theoretical and academic chapters on disability performance, the book also includes essays, poems, dramatic texts, and choreographic concepts that ref lect upon the alternative knowledge in the disability arts.

Author : Kimball King,Tom Fahy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781135309039

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Peering Behind the Curtain by Kimball King,Tom Fahy Pdf

This volume addresses disability in theater, and features all new work, including critical essays, interviews, personal essays, and an original play. It fills a gap in scholarship while promoting the profile of disability in theater. Peering Behind the Curtain examines the issues surrounding disability in many well-known plays, including Children of a Lesser God, The Elephant Man, 'night Mother, and Wit, as well as an original play by James McDonald.

Author : Sidney Homan
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0838750648

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Beckett's Theaters by Sidney Homan Pdf

The work focuses on the practical and philosophic sides of performance, set within the context of Beckett's own aesthetic theory, his fiction and poetry, as well as a history of the critical and scholarly studies of his work. Winner of the Bucknell University Press Award.

Author : Kirsty Johnston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : Actors with disabilities
ISBN : 1408185172

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Disability Theatre and Modern Drama by Kirsty Johnston Pdf

This volume explores how disability performance studies and disability theatre practice provoke debate about the place of disability in these works. The author traces the local and international processes and tensions at play in disability theatre, and offers a critical investigation of the challenges disability theatre aesthetics pose to mainstream and traditional practice and critique.

Author : Tommy Jessop
Publisher : Wildfire
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781035403714

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A Life Worth Living by Tommy Jessop Pdf

'I can't recommend it highly enough' STEPHEN FRY | 'Everyone needs to hear his voice' MARK HADDON I'm a man on a mission to show that life with Down syndrome can be exciting and is worth living, so that other people understand and give us the chance to live life to the full and to be fulfilled. Tommy Jessop's acting career spans Line of Duty, multi-award winning roles in short films, various roles on television and the stage. From his emotional role in the hit BBC series, to playing Hamlet on stage, and through his campaigning, Tommy has created real change. He has been at the vanguard of bringing awareness of the need for opportunities and the real potential of people living with Down syndrome to the media, the general public and to government. A Life Worth Living is Tommy's story and Tommy's philosophy in his own words. This uplifting read will resonate with anyone who is facing a challenge and has been especially highly praised by families and friends of people living with Down syndrome who find it immensely encouraging.

Author : I. Leslie Rubin,Joav Merrick,Donald E. Greydanus,Dilip R. Patel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 2307 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-25
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783319180960

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Health Care for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities across the Lifespan by I. Leslie Rubin,Joav Merrick,Donald E. Greydanus,Dilip R. Patel Pdf

This book provides a broad overview of quality health care for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). It focuses on providing the reader a practical approach to dealing with the health and well-being of people with IDD in general terms as well as in dealing with specific conditions. In addition, it offers the reader a perspective from many different points of view in the health care delivery system as well as in different parts of the world. This is the 3rd , and much expanded edition, of a text that was first published in 1989 (Lea and Fibiger). The second edition was published in 2006 (Paul Brookes) and has been used as a formal required text in training programs for physicians, nurses and nurse practitioners as well as by administrators who are responsible for programs serving people with IDD. This book is considered the “Bible” in the field of health care for people with IDD since 1989 when the first edition came out.

Author : Hershini Bhana Young
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781479818457

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Falling, Floating, Flickering by Hershini Bhana Young Pdf

Insists on the importance of embodiment and movement to the creation of Black sociality Linking African diasporic performance, disability studies, and movement studies, Falling, Floating, Flickering approaches disability transnationally by centering Black, African, and diasporic experiences. By eschewing capital’s weighted calculus of which bodies hold value, this book centers alternate morphologies and movement practices that have previously been dismissed as abnormal or unrecognizable. To move beyond binaries of ability, Hershini Bhana Young traverses multiple geohistories and cultural forms stretching from the United States and the Mediterranean to Sierra Leone, Nigeria, and South Africa, as well as independent and experimental film, novels, sculptures, images, dance, performances, and anecdotes. In doing so, she argues for the importance of differential embodiment and movement to the creation and survival of Black sociality, and refutes stereotypic notions of Africa as less progressive than the West in recognizing the rights of disabled people. Ultimately, this book foregrounds the engagement of diasporic Africans, who are still reeling from the violence of colonialism, slavery, poverty, and war, as they gesture toward a liberatory Black sociality by falling, floating, and flickering.

Author : Kirsty Johnston
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781472506382

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Disability Theatre and Modern Drama by Kirsty Johnston Pdf

Bertolt Brecht's silent Kattrin in Mother Courage, or the disability performance lessons of his Peachum in The Threepenny Opera; Tennessee Williams' limping Laura Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie and hard-of-hearing Bodey in A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur; Samuel Beckett's blind Hamm and his physically disabled parents Nagg and Nell in Endgame – these and many further examples attest to disability's critical place in modern drama. This Companion explores how disability performance studies and theatre practice provoke new debate about the place of disability in these works. The book traces the local and international processes and tensions at play in disability theatre, and offers a critical investigation of the challenges its aesthetics pose to mainstream and traditional practice. The book's first part surveys disability theatre's primary principles, critical terms, internal debates and key challenges to theatre practice. Examining specific disability theatre productions of modern drama, it also suggests how disability has been re-envisaged and embodied on stage. In the book's second part, leading disability studies scholars and disability theatre practitioners analyse and creatively re-imagine modern drama, demonstrating how disability aesthetics press practitioners and scholars to rethink these works in generative, valuable and timely ways.