The Making Of Samuel Beckett S Radio Plays

Author : Pim Verhulst
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9057187973

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“The” Making of Samuel Beckett?s Radio Plays by Pim Verhulst Pdf

Reassessing the notions of ?undoing? and ?vaguening? that dominate genetic studies of Beckett?s work in theatre, television and film, the present volume in the BDMP series analyses the writing process of his radio drama, to illustrate how he grappled with the unique affordances of the medium while exploiting its ephemerality. In addition to Beckett?s six canonical works for radio, written in French and English from 1956 to 1962 (All That Fall, Embers, Pochaderadiophonique, Words and Music, Esquisse radiophonique, Cascando), his first ever radio script (The Capital of the Ruins, 1946) and his adaptation of Robert Pinget?s radio play La Manivelle (The Old Tune, 1959) are also included, as well as two previously unknown works: ?All but I? (1973) and ?Hörendspiel? (1988). For every text a detailed chronology is established in relation to Beckett?s other output, and his role in the recording process is reconstructed on the basis of archival materials from the BBC and RTF broadcasting services. With more than fifty newly discovered drafts, this book offers the most comprehensive study of Beckett?s radio plays to date, including his self-translations and those that he made in collaboration with Pinget.00This volume is part of the Beckett Digital Manuscript Project (BDMP), a collaboration between the Centre for Manuscript Genetics (University of Antwerp), the Beckett International Foundation (University of Reading) and the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (University of Texas at Austin), with the support of the Estate of Samuel Beckett. The BDMP (www.beckettarchive.org) digitally reunites the dispersed manuscripts of Samuel Beckett?s works and facilitates their examination. The project consists of two parts:0a) a digital archive of Beckett?s a manuscripts, with facsimiles and transcriptions, organized in modules;0b) a series of print volumes, analyzing the genesis of Beckett?s works

Author : Pim Verhulst
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:917154313

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The Making of Samuel Beckett's Radio Plays by Pim Verhulst Pdf

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780571297085

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All That Fall and Other Plays for Radio and Screen by Samuel Beckett Pdf

This new edition brings together all of Beckett's dramatic writings for radio, television and film, offering works which range from eloquent comic naturalism to an eviscerated and pared-down symbolism. Above all, Beckett found his unique uses for the radio-play, a medium 'for voices not bodies', compacted of speech, sound and silence - and the plays in this volume intently explore the resources and limits of the sound-stage.My father, back from the dead, to be with me. (Pause.) As if he hadn't died. (Pause.) No, simply back from the dead, to be with me, in this strange place. (Pause.) Can he hear me? (Pause.) Yes, he must hear me. (Pause.) To answer me? (Pause.) No, he doesn't answer me. (Pause.) Just be with me. (Pause.) That sound you hear is the sea. (Pause. Louder.) I say that sound you hear is the sea, we are sitting on the strand. (Pause.) I mention it because the sound is so strange, so unlike the sound of the sea, that if you didn't see what it was you wouldn't know what it was. (Pause.). Hooves!Contents: All That Fall, Embers, Words and Music, Eh Joe, Quad, Film, ...but the clouds..., Ghost Trio, Nacht und Träume, Rough for Radio I, Rough for Radio II, Cascando, The Old TunePreface and Notes by Everett Frost

Author : David Addyman,Matthew Feldman,Erik Tonning
Publisher : Springer
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137542656

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Samuel Beckett and BBC Radio by David Addyman,Matthew Feldman,Erik Tonning Pdf

This book is the first sustained examination of Samuel Beckett’s pivotal engagements with post-war BBC radio. The BBC acted as a key interpreter and promoter of Beckett’s work during this crucial period of his "getting known" in the Anglophone world in the 1950s and 1960s, especially through the culturally ambitious Third Programme, but also by the intermediary of the house magazine, The Listener. The BBC ensured a sizeable but also informed reception for Beckett’s radio plays and various “adaptations” (including his stage plays, prose, and even poetry); the audience that Beckett's works reached by radio almost certainly exceeded in size his readership or theatre audiences at the time. In rethinking several key aspects of his relationship with the BBC, a mix of new and familiar Beckett critics take as their starting point the previously neglected BBC radio archives held at the Written Archive Centre in Caversham, Berkshire. The results of this extended reassessment are timely and, in many cases, quite surprising for readers of Beckett and for scholars of radio, “late modernism,” and post-war British culture more broadly.

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : English drama
ISBN : UVA:X004046936

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All that Fall by Samuel Beckett Pdf

Published to celebrate the centenary of Beckett's birth

Author : David Addyman,Matthew Feldman,Erik Tonning
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1349951307

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Samuel Beckett and BBC Radio by David Addyman,Matthew Feldman,Erik Tonning Pdf

This book is the first sustained examination of Samuel Beckett’s pivotal engagements with post-war BBC radio. The BBC acted as a key interpreter and promoter of Beckett’s work during this crucial period of his "getting known" in the Anglophone world in the 1950s and 1960s, especially through the culturally ambitious Third Programme, but also by the intermediary of the house magazine, The Listener. The BBC ensured a sizeable but also informed reception for Beckett’s radio plays and various “adaptations” (including his stage plays, prose, and even poetry); the audience that Beckett's works reached by radio almost certainly exceeded in size his readership or theatre audiences at the time. In rethinking several key aspects of his relationship with the BBC, a mix of new and familiar Beckett critics take as their starting point the previously neglected BBC radio archives held at the Written Archive Centre in Caversham, Berkshire. The results of this extended reassessment are timely and, in many cases, quite surprising—for readers of Beckett and for scholars of radio, “late modernism,” and post-war British culture more broadly.

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-24
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780802198464

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The Collected Shorter Plays of Samuel Beckett by Samuel Beckett Pdf

Samuel Beckett, the great minimalist master and winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature, has produced some of his most widely praised work for the stage in the form of the shorter play. This complete and definitive collection of twenty-five plays and "playlets" includes Beckett's celebrated Krapp's Last Tape, Embers, Cascando, Play, Eh Joe, Not I, and Footfalls, as well as his mimes, all his radio and television plays, his screenplay for Film, his adaptation of Robert Pignet's The Old Tune, and more recent Catastrophe, What Where, Quad, and Night and Dreams. Includes: All That Fall Act Without Words I Act Without Words II Krapp's Last Tape Rough for Theatre I Rough for Theatre II Embers Rough for Radio I Rough for Radio II Words and Music Cascando Play Film The Old Tune Come and Go Eh Joe Breath Not I That Time Footfalls Ghost Trio …but the clouds… A Piece of Monologue Rockaby Ohio Impromptu Quad Catastrophe Nacht und Träume What Where

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780802198389

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Krapp's Last Tape and Other Dramatic Pieces by Samuel Beckett Pdf

This collection of Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett’s dramatic pieces includes a short stage play, two radio plays, and two pantomimes. The stage play Krapp’s Last Tape evolves a shattering drama out of a monologue of a man who, at age sixty-nine, plays back the autobiographical tape he recorded on his thirty-ninth birthday. The two radio plays were commissioned by the BBC; All That Fall “plumbs the same pessimistic depths [as Waiting for Godot] in what seems a no less despairing search for human dignity” (London Times), and Embers is equally unforgettable theater, born of the ramblings of an old man and his wife. Finally, in the two pantomimes, Beckett takes drama to the point of pure abstraction with his portrayals of, in Act Without Words I, frustrated desired, and in Act Without Words I, corresponding motions of living juxtaposed in the slow despair of one man and the senselessly busy motion of another.

Author : Tim Crook
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134606948

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Radio Drama by Tim Crook Pdf

Radio Drama brings together the practical skills needed for radio drams, such as directing, writing and sound design, with media history and communication theory. Challenging the belief that sound drama is a 'blind medium', Radio Drama shows how experimentation in radio narrative has blurred the dividing line between fiction and reality in modern media. Using extracts from scripts and analysing radio broadcasts from America, Britain, Canada and Australia, the book explores the practicalities of producing drama for radio. Tim Crook illustrates how far radio drama has developed since the first 'audiophonic production' and evaluates the future of radio drama in the age of live phone-ins and immedate access to programmes on the Internet.

Author : Katherine Weiss
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781408145586

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The Plays of Samuel Beckett by Katherine Weiss Pdf

Beckett remains one of the most important writers of the twentieth century whose radical experimentations in form and content won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969. This Critical Companion encompasses his plays for the stage, radio and television, and will be indispensable to students of his work. Challenging and at times perplexing, Beckett's work is represented on almost every literature, theatre and Irish studies curriculum in universities in North America, Europe and Australia. Katherine Weiss' admirably clear study of his work provides the perfect companion, illuminating each play and Beckett's vision, and investigating his experiments with the body, voice and technology. It includes in-depth studies of the major works Waiting for Godot, Endgame and Krapp's Last Tape, and as with other volumes in Methuen Drama's Critical Companions series it features too a series of essays by other scholars and practitioners offering different critical perspectives on Beckett in performance that will inform students' own critical thinking. Together with a series of resources including a chronology and a list of further reading, this is ideal for all students and readers of Beckett's work.

Author : James Little
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350112339

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Samuel Beckett in Confinement by James Little Pdf

Confinement appears repeatedly in Samuel Beckett's oeuvre – from the asylums central to Murphy and Watt to the images of confinement that shape plays such as Waiting for Godot and Endgame. Drawing on spatial theory and new archival research, Beckett in Confinement explores these recurring concepts of closed space to cast new light on the ethical and political dimensions of Beckett's work. Covering the full range of Beckett's writing career, including two plays he completed for prisoners, Catastrophe and the unpublished 'Mongrel Mime', the book shows how this engagement with the ethics of representing prisons and asylums stands at the heart of Beckett's poetics.

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-20
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780571300198

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The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett by Samuel Beckett Pdf

The present volume gathers all of Beckett's texts for theatre, from 1955 to 1984. It includes both the major dramatic works and the short and more compressed texts for the stage and for radio. 'He believes in the cadence, the comma, the bite of word on reality, whatever else he believes; and his devotion to them, he makes clear, is a sufficient focus for the reader's attention. In the modern history of literature he is a unique moral figure, not a dreamer of rose-gardens but a cultivator of what will grow in the waste land, who can make us see the exhilarating design that thorns and yucca share with whatever will grow anywhere.' - Hugh Kenner Contents: Waiting for Godot, Endgame, Happy Days, All That Fall, Acts Without Words, Krapp's Last Tape, Roughs for the Theatre, Embers, Roughs for the Radio, Words and Music, Cascando, Play, Film, The Old Tune, Come and Go, Eh Joe, Breath, Not I, That Time, Footfalls, Ghost Trio,... but the clouds..., A Piece of Monologue, Rockaby, Ohio Impromptu, Quad, Catastrophe, Nacht und Traume, What Where.

Author : Lois Oppenheim
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0472084364

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Directing Beckett by Lois Oppenheim Pdf

Interviews with and essays by twenty-two prominent directors of Samuel Beckett's work

Author : Sarah West
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789042030794

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Say It by Sarah West Pdf

Central to Samuel Beckett’s literature is a wilful voice which insists on speaking and being heard. Beckett described it as “a truly exterior voice”, and in the plays he separates voice from the body and turns it into an audible character. Previous critical studies have explored the enigma of this voice, its identity, source and location, but little attention has been given to the voice as protagonist. This volume traces the genesis of the performative voice in the early prose and charts its trajectory throughout the dramatic oeuvre in a readable narrative which generates fresh insights into some of Beckett’s most remarkable and impenetrable plays. It examines the use of embodied and acousmatic – ‘out of body’ – voices in the different media of theatre, radio and television; the treatment of voice in relation to music, image and movement; and the ‘shifting threshold’ between the written and spoken word. The analysis comprises a detailed study of dramatic speech and technical aspects of sound reproduction, making it relevant for all scholars and students with an interest in textual and performance issues in Beckett’s drama.

Author : Samuel Beckett
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780802144386

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The Collected Shorter Plays by Samuel Beckett Pdf

Collects over twenty short plays published by the Nobel Prize winning playwright Samuel Beckett. Includes his mimes, radio and television plays, screenplay, and adaptations of other's works.