{"product_id":"becketts-laboratory-9781350238770","title":"Becketts Laboratory","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOffering fresh studies of Samuel Beckett in pre-production, in rehearsal, as an innovator of the script form, and as a speculative director and designer, \u003ci\u003eBeckett's Laboratory\u003c\/i\u003e reconsiders Beckett's stringent approach to stage direction through the lens of the laboratory and reveals his experimentalism with stage representation and composition. Wakeling argues that acknowledging Beckett's experimental processes, from their composition to their reception, is crucial to understanding the innovative representations of humanity that emerged at different stages in Beckett's practice.Repositioning Beckett's performance oeuvre in relation to philosophy, Wakeling draws upon post-dramatic, symbolist, materialist and post-structural understandings of theatre performance to reappraise Beckett's plays as a composition for performance. The philosophical underpinnings of Beckett's practices are explored through an eclectic mix of familiar and unexplored contemporary theatre productions and film\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA refreshing and enlightening approach to Samuel Beckett’s work as a laboratory where media of expression, liveness, the status of the audience in the creative act and the writing process itself are tested and cultivated. -- Mark Taylor-Batty, University of Leeds, UK\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements                 List of abbreviations                  Introduction                                                                                                                             Chapter 1: Laboratory Acts Without Words                                                                           Chapter 2: Sensory Deprivation                                                                                              Chapter 3: Impediment and the Symbolist Dramaturgical Inheritance                               Chapter 4: Dream Space, the Other Laboratory                                                                     Chapter 5: Catastrophe and the Politics of Spectacle                                                                         Chapter 6: Hypnosis: A Theory of Beckett Spectatorship                                                      Chapter 7: \u003ci\u003eAdaphatrôce\u003c\/i\u003e, or the Contentious Fringes of Beckett’s Dramaturgy                 Notes                                                                                                                                        Bibliography                                                                                                                            Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019644043607,"sku":"9781350238770","price":28.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350238770.jpg?v=1750780887","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/becketts-laboratory-9781350238770","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}