LEADER 04179nam 22006375 450 001 9910588591103321 005 20230810175149.0 010 $a9783031041334$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9783031041327 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-04133-4 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7076754 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7076754 035 $a(CKB)24735736800041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-04133-4 035 $a(EXLCZ)9924735736800041 100 $a20220820d2022 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSamuel Beckett and Disability Performance /$fby Hannah Simpson 205 $a1st ed. 2022. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2022. 215 $a1 online resource (243 pages) 225 1 $aNew Interpretations of Beckett in the Twenty-First Century,$x2945-6800 300 $aIncludes index. 311 08$aPrint version: Simpson, Hannah Samuel Beckett and Disability Performance Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2022 9783031041327 327 $aChapter 1: Endgame: Anxieties of the Body (Theatre Workshop Scotland, 2007) -- Chapter 2: Endgame: Me to Play (The Endgame Project, 2012) -- Chapter 3: Not I: Compulsion and Agency (Touretteshero, 2017-2020) -- Chapter 4: Waiting for Godot: The Struggle to Be (Culture Device and Hackney Showroom, 2018) -- Chapter 5: This.Here: Recuperative and Recuperating (Rosetta Life and Stroke Odysseys, 2019) -- Chapter 6: Conclusion: Virtuosic Bodies. 330 $aBeckett?s plays have attracted a striking range of disability performances ? that is, performances that cast disabled actors, regardless of whether their roles are explicitly described as ?disabled? in the text. Grounded in the history of disability performance of Beckett?s work and a new theorising of Beckett?s treatment of the impaired body, Samuel Beckett and Disability Performance examines four contemporary disability performances of Beckett?s plays, staged in the UK and US, and brings the rich fields of Beckett studies and disability studies into mutually illuminating conversation. Pairing original interviews with the actors and directors involved in these productions alongside critical analysis underpinned by recent disability and performance theory, this book explores how these productions emphasise or rework previously undetected indicators of disability in Beckett?s work. More broadly, it reveals how Beckett?s theatre compulsively interrogates alternative embodiments, unexpected forms of agency, and the extraordinary social interdependency of the human body. Hannah Simpson is Rosemary Pountney Research Fellow at St Anne?s College, University of Oxford, UK. She specialises in modern and contemporary theatre and performance, with a particular interest in the work of Samuel Beckett and issues of physical pain and disability. She is also the author of Witnessing Pain: Samuel Beckett and Post-War Francophone Theatre (2022), and the Theatre Review Editor for The Beckett Circle (The Samuel Beckett Society). . 410 0$aNew Interpretations of Beckett in the Twenty-First Century,$x2945-6800 606 $aTheater$xHistory 606 $aActors 606 $aPeople with disabilities$xEducation 606 $aMedicine and the humanities 606 $aContemporary Theatre and Performance 606 $aPerformers and Practitioners 606 $aEducation and Disability 606 $aMedical Humanities 615 0$aTheater$xHistory. 615 0$aActors. 615 0$aPeople with disabilities$xEducation. 615 0$aMedicine and the humanities. 615 14$aContemporary Theatre and Performance. 615 24$aPerformers and Practitioners. 615 24$aEducation and Disability. 615 24$aMedical Humanities. 676 $a848.91409 676 $a822.912 700 $aSimpson$b Hannah$f1990-$01428340 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910588591103321 996 $aSamuel Beckett and Disability Performance$93564194 997 $aUNINA