Staging Beckett in Ireland and Northern Ireland

Trish McTighe is Lecturer in Theatre at the University of Birmingham. Her book, The Haptic Aesthetic in Samuel Beckett’s Drama, was published with Palgrave in 2013, and she recently co-edited the double volume Staging Beckett in Ireland and Northern Ireland and Staging Beckett in Great Britain (Bloomsbury-Methuen, 2016). She has published in the journals Modern Drama, Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui, and the Irish University Review, on topics such as Beckett’s drama, embodiment, and Irish culture and performance histories. She is theatre reviews editor for the Journal of Beckett Studies. David Tucker is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Chester, UK. He is the author of a number of publications on Beckett, including Samuel Beckett and Arnold Geulincx: Tracing ‘a literary fantasia’ (Bloomsbury, 2012), and is co-editor with Mark Nixon and Dirk Van Hulle of Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui, Vol. 26 (2014): ‘Revisiting Molloy, Malone muert/Malone Dies and L’Innommable/The Unnamable’.

• List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Foreword: Christopher Murray Introduction: Trish McTighePart 1 Theatre Histories1 Beckett at the Abbey 1967–1990: Broadening the Canon Anthony Roche2 Practice in Focus: ‘That’s how it was and them were the days’Barry McGovern 3 The Gate Theatre’s Beckett Festivals: Tensions between the Local and the Global David Clare 4 Practice in Focus: Clarity in Confusion – the Adaptability and Durability of Beckett in BelfastDavid Grant 5 Beckett out of Focus: Happy Days and Waiting for Godot at Dublin’s Focus Theatre Siobhán O’Gorman Part 2 Cultural Contexts6 ‘Idle Youth Waiting for Godot’: Destitution in Waiting for Godot in Relation to the Irish Performance TraditionPaul Murphy 7 Staging Beckett in Ireland: Scenographic RemainsAnna McMullan 8 ‘In Bantu or Erse’: Staging Beckett in Irish Feargal Whelan 9 The Sonic Geography of Druid’s Waiting for GodotTrish McTighe Part 3 Expanding the Frame10 Practice in Focus: Beckett in the City Sarah Jane Scaife 11Beckett and the Non-Place in Irish PerformanceBrian Singleton12 ‘The Neatness of Identifications’: Transgressing Beckett’s Genres in Ireland and Northern Ireland, 2000–2015 Nicholas E. Johnson Notes Bibliography Index

An important intervention in the field of studies on the Irish theater of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and in that of Beckettian studies