Staging Beckett in Ireland and Northern Ireland

Trish McTighe is currently a Postdoctoral Research Assistant at the University of Reading, UK and a visiting scholar at Fordham University, New York. Her book, The Haptic Aesthetic in Samuel Beckett’s Drama, was published in 2013 and she has published in several international journals on aesthetics, corporeality and technology in performance. David Tucker is Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Chester and Associate Fellow at St Peter’s College, Oxford. He has published the books A Dream and its Legacies: The Samuel Beckett Theatre Project, Oxford c.1967-1976 (2013), Samuel Beckett and Arnold Geulincx: Tracing ‘a literary fantasia’ (2012) and the edited British Social Realism in the Arts since 1940 (2011). He co-edited Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui, Vol. 26: ‘Revisiting Molloy, Malone muert/Malone Dies and L’Innommable/The Unnamable’ (2014) with Mark Nixon and Dirk Van Hulle, and he is co-editor of The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory.

• AcknowledgementsInformation on ContributorsForeword, Christopher Murray Introduction, Trish McTighe and David TuckerSection 1: Theatre and Performance Histories1. Beckett at the Abbey, by Anthony Roche2. Beckett out of Focus: Happy Days and Waiting for Godot at Dublin’s Focus Theatre, by Siobhan O’Gorman3. Reflections on a History of Creating Beckett’s Drama in Ireland, by Barry McGovern4. Beckett in Belfast, by David Grant5. Voicing Landscapes in Druid’s Productions, by Trish McTighe 6. The Gate Theatre’s Beckett Festivals: Tensions between the Local and the Global, by David ClareSection 2: Cultural Contexts7. Waiting for Godot and the Mediation of Indigence in the Irish performance Tradition, by Paul Murphy8. Staging Beckett in Ireland: Scenographic Remains, by Anna McMullan9. In Bantu or in Erse: Beckett and Irish Translation, by Feargal WhelanSection 3: Expanding the Frame10. The Culturally Inscribed Body and Spaces of Performance in Samuel Beckett’s Drama, by Sarah Jane Scaife11. Beckett and Non-Place in Irish Performance, by Brian Singleton12. ”The Neatness of Identifications”: Transgressing Beckett’s Genres in Ireland and the United Kingdom, 2000-2015, by Nicolas JohnsonEndnotesBibliographyIndex

Succeeds both as an overview of Irish productions of Beckett and as a critical history of how Beckett’s fragmented Irish elements have grown into a fully-fledged Irish Beckett.