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Where Extremes Meet: Re-reading Brecht and Beckett

Where Extremes Meet: Re-reading Brecht and Beckett

Publié le par Thomas Parisot (Source : American Society for Theatre Research)

A symposium of invited speakers, hosted by the School of Drama and the Graduate Centre for Arts Research of the University of Dublin, will take place in the mornings and afternoons of May 4 and 5, 2001, in the Samuel Beckett Theatre, Trinity College Dublin, to discuss re-reading Beckett and Brecht in relation to each other.
From roughly the middle of the 20th century, and for about 30 years, Beckett and Brecht dominated Western theatre by virtue of their difference.
Their work was considered antithetical in virtually all respects. In terms of the slogans, they stood for a theatre of the absurd or for a theatre of political commitment, defining each other by their incompatibilities. Only their successors began to question the dichotomies and to draw on both their legacies.
Yet looking back we recognise shared interests and common ground: for example, their innovations in the new media, their modernism, as directors of their own work, and also in the shape of their thinking and writing.
This is the territory we wish to explore.

Some of the participants can draw on their experience of working in person with Beckett or with Brecht. The Symposium will include the annual Beckett Lecture, to be given by Herbert Blau, and will consist of lectures followed by discussions, and round-table sessions. The participants include: Walter Asmus, Herbert Blau, Sue-Ellen Case, Michael Colgan, Jonathan Kalb, Hans-Thiess Lehmann, Moray McGowan, Peter Palitzsch, Fiona Shaw, Antony Tatlow, and Carl Weber.

All sessions will be open to the public and free of charge. A detailed programme will be available in early April.

For further information contact:
Francis Thackaberry
Samuel Beckett Centre
Trinity College
Dublin 2, Ireland
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