October 12th & 13th 2017 / 12 et 13 octobre 2017
Institute of Modern Languages Research, Senate House, University of London
October 12th / 12 octobre
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Morning / Matinée
Moderator / Modérateur: Dominic Glynn
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09h30/ Opening of the first study day and introduction by Jean-Michel Gouvard and Dominic Glynn / Ouverture de la première journée d’étude et introduction par Jean-Michel Gouvard et Dominic Glynn
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09h45/ Jean-Michel Gouvard, Université de Bordeaux-Montaigne (France): Waiting for Godot in 1953: Performance and reception
11h00/ Hélène Lecossois, Université de Lille III (France): (Re)historicizing Beckett's shorter plays - Irish and Algerian (post)colonial contexts
12h15/ Anna McMullan, University of Reading: Staging Beckett in the UK and Ireland: site specificity and intermediality
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Afternoon / Après-midi
Moderator / Modérateur: Jean-Michel Gouvard
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14h30/ Derval Tubridy, Goldsmiths College, University of London: Installing Beckett
15h45/ David Pattie, University of Chester: “At me too someone is looking...”; Power Structures and Coercion in Beckett's theatre​
17h00/ Everett Frost: “My comforts! Be friends!”: Directing the Samuel Beckett/Morton Feldman Collaboration in Words and Music, “a Piece for Radio”.
October 13th / 13 octobre
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Morning / Matinée
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09h45/ Dominic Glynn, Institute of Modern Languages Research, School of Advanced Study : Brook and Beckett
11h00/ Rebecca Infield, University of Warwick : "Krapp's Last Tape"/"La derniere bande": Translation, Revision and Performance
12h15/ Pascale Sardin, Université de Bordeaux-Montaigne (France): Beckett performed in the context of the globalization of “contemporary performance”: between commodification and politicization
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Afternoon / Après-midi
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14h00/ A trio of performances: Rough for Theatre I, Rockaby, and an extract from Embers in the Court Room, Senate House.
For the concluding part of the ‘Performing Beckett/Jouer Beckett’ Study Days in London, we present a selection of short performances from Beckett’s dramatic work. Each of these plays explores Beckett’s audio aesthetics and demonstrates the importance of sound as an essential sensory experience of performing Beckett. Afterwards we invite the audience to participate in a discussion with the actors about the texts, and their experience of approaching Beckett for live performance.
Rough for Theatre I, first written in French in the late 1950s, performed in English by Miztli Neville and Michael Kiersey.
Rockaby, first written in English in 1980, performed by Esther Ruth Elliott.
Embers, first written in English in 1957, an extract performed by Miztli Neville and Michael Kiersey.
Performances by Esther Ruth Elliot, Michael Kiersey and Miztli Neville / Coordination by Joanna Lally.
The programme of our study days next October is also on the website of the Institute of Modern Languages Research.
All are welcome to attend this free event, but places are limited, so please register in advance, following this link.
Thank you very much.
