Beckett’s Voices / Voicing Beckett

✍ Scribed by Laurens De Vos, Mariko Hori Tanaka, Nicholas E. Johnson

• Publisher: BRILL
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 361
• Series: Themes in Theatre: Collective Approaches to Theatre and Performance, 12
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Beckett’s Voices / Voicing Beckett uses ‘voice’ as a prism to investigate Samuel Beckett’s work across a range of texts, genres, and cultures. Twenty-one international contributors evaluate Beckett’s contemporary artistic legacy in relation to music, media, performance, and philosophy.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface and Acknowledgements
Figures
Notes on Contributors
All the dead voices': Introduction Listening to the Inner Voice in Watt: Innovations in Narrative Form Part 1: Musicality of Voices Sound Matters in Beckett Revealing the Limit of Language in Relation to Music Embers: A Polyphonic Piece for Radio Part 2: Voices of an Absent Other Samuel Beckett, Quickening thedead voices': From Waiting for Godot to That Time
Scratching the Surface: The Dramaturgical Oxymoron in Beckett's Silences
Why Is Listener' NamedSouvenant'? The Role of the Spectator in a Bilingual Reading of That Time/Cette fois
Un-bodied Voices, the Thing Itself and Beckett's Neural Theatre
Part 3: Voices of the Vulnerable
Pacing as Repressed Memory of Embodiment and Enactment in Footfalls
`Rock her off': The Paradoxical Tension of the Split Voice in Rockaby
Technology and the Voices of the More than Human in Beckett's All That Fall
A Creamy Work: Schiller and Beckett
Part 4: Cinematic Voices
Filmic Perspectives in Speaker's Narrative of A Piece of Monologue
Cinematic Adaptations of Beckett's Breath
Translating Silence: Ashish Avikunthak's Cinematographic Version of Come and Go
Part 5: Enacted Voices in Performance and Media
Without Colour: Beckett and the Stage Voice
Beckett in Performance: The Body of a Beckettian Actor
Translating Beckett's Voices in Different Cultures
Articulations of Voice and Medium in Beckett's Screen Work
All That Fall as a Case Study in the Possibilities and Problematics of Re-routing Samuel Beckett's Radio Plays for Performance in Other Media
Bibliography
Index