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Beckett & Stoppard -- 2008 "R/G are Dead"
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2006. Spring Theatre UAF
Mary Poppins Tickets Wicked Tickets Tarzan Tickets Cirque du Soleil Tickets [ advertising space : webmaster ] 
Absurd Page script.vtheatre.net and THEMES directory? Tradition : The Greeks, Shakespeare, Dada, Biomechanics and etc. [hyperlinks] 5. BEING AND WAITING: THE QUESTION OF GODOT (Being as Waiting)
* Pre-show: tableaus (Two, Pozzo-Lucky, the two in different position -- how many times?) Light is up, down -- changes... Music. Act I (playscript) "Beckett: View from the Future" = Postmodern Perspective (Alaska, USA) -- desert, cold, tree is sleeping, no snow... * theatre uaf * act 1 & act 2 notes * vtheatre list (cast, crew)
Godot AK, USA -- that's the challenge! Director's Notes? America is not waiting for anything or anybody... 70% do believe in God? America or AmeriKa?
"Vladimir" play, or "Estragon" story -- traditional throughlines... "Title Characters" = heroes? Aristotle : tragedy (Hamlet, Oedipus -- and comedy (Wilde tradition and 12th Night) -- (no drama, i.e. melodrama, only as parody).
Chorus = public (how to make it visible?) Boy = messenger irony? Reference -- Sophocles).
The smell of Stoppard is everywhere!
Intellectual "Poor Theatre"? Grotowski
Beckett as philosopher (Plato's Dialogues? Ironic) Return of the oral tradition?
Kabuki style? Puppet Theatre elements...
Americans and Godot: forms to ask public/actors (?)
"Was I sleeping, while the others suffered? Am I sleeping now? Tomorrow, when I wake, or think I do, what shall I say of today?" --Samuel Beckett's Vladimir
"For many, the theatre is the abode where dreams are created. You, players, sellers of drugs, in your darkened houses people are changed into kings and perform heroic deeds of safety. In rapture over themselves, or seized with pity they sit in happy distraction, forgetting the toils of daily life. Runaways...." --Bertolt Brecht
Happy Birthday Beckett: "Rosset finally convinced Beckett to allow him to become his American publisher. "We paid $100 dollar advance for Godot," he recalls, sifting through the fog of half a century. "It might have been $150, but I think it was $100. Beckett was the first living author Grove published." Rosset became not only Beckett's American publisher but also his literary agent in the U.S."
beckettat100.com: Waiting for Godot: A Bilingual Edition
with an introduction by S.E. Gontarski
ISBN: 0-8021-1821-6 * ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-1821-9 * US$22.00
Waiting for Godot
A Tragicomedy in Two Acts Sam liked Chekhov; back to 3 Sisters? One (crazy) Russian claims the he coined that idea "Code De Vinci" (works for the Hermitage): Mona Lisa is a combination of two -- Jesus and Maria. (His book "Orthodoxy in Colors"). What about combination of writer and character? Chekhov and Vershinin, Anton and Masha -- monsters, existing only on the pages? Or angels. Tolstoy and Karenina. Crossing your gender limitations -- and giving the phantom to perform to actor (live stranger). Beckett as Vladimir, ... Beckett as Godot. Where? Everywhere! Who is Godot? You. Me. She, he, they... What's the difference between silence and text? Between Dante and child's talk? And Nietzsche went mad. ...
Monologue Study: 1 101 * 2 comedy * 3 drama *
... Absurd? A miracle is absurd! Broken logic and normality. Such as life. [ back to Film600: Bad Subjects, Wrong Theories ]
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Above -- the original page "Go.dot"...
To use for THR331 Fundamentals of direction as a showcase (for class).
Future use -- THR412 Playscript analysis and THR215 Dramatic Literature
Sam Beckett ("in the mind of Samuel Beckett" -- mindscape)
main character -- Public
Crew
Draft of the Poster (Maya Salganek)
act 1: tragedy ["4th wall" 3 Sisters style with some breaks into a cirus (playing for the public) acting of act 2 (12th Night?]
©2004 filmplus.org *
Photo archives:
Theatre UAF. 3rd dress. Tara Maginnis (costumes & photos) * April 5.2006 (some are in shows.vtheatre.net/godot/pix directory) * act oneCall for Contributions
On Beckett
Performance Research Issue 12:1 (March 2007)
Issue Editor: Catherine Laws
As Beckett reaches 100 years of age, his work continues to provoke new artistic and theoretical responses. The centenary is generating a wide range of performances, exhibitions and conferences explicitly dedicated to his legacy in the arts and beyond. However, Beckett's influence upon much recent art and his relationship to theory can be deeply rooted but subtle and indirect. The format of Performance Research allows for artists' pages and other visual representations alongside articles, interviews, documents or reviews; we invite submissions with a relationship to Beckett or that consider Beckett's work in relation to contemporary practice and theory. We are interested in both explicit and more tangential, implicit relationships, in particular:
- Beckett's influence upon and/or relation to current performance practices, including visual
art, film, music, and cross/inter-disciplinary work;
- Beckett's influence on and/or relationship to current theories of subjectivity and the body;
- the reconstructed/mediated body and liminal subjectivity in late Beckett;
- the eye and the ear, seeing and hearing;
- other new theoretical perspectives.Deadlines for issue 12:1 are as follows:
Proposals: 29th May 2006 Draft articles: 28th August 2006 Finalised material: 25th September 2006 Publication Date: March 2007ALL proposals, submissions and general enquiries should be sent direct to:Linden Elmhirst - Administrative Assistant Performance Research Dartington College of Arts, Totnes, Devon TQ9 7RD UK tel. 0044 1803 861683 fax. 0044 1803 861685 email: performance-research@dartington.ac.uk web: http://www.performance-research.netContent specific enquires should be directed to Catherine Laws at: c.laws@dartington.ac.ukEnquiries about the volume as a whole should be directed to: Ric Allsopp transomatic@orange.net OR r.allsopp@dartington.ac.uk
For complete Guidelines for Submissions please see: http://www.performance-research.net/pages/guidelines.html
Performance Research is MAC based. Proposals will be accepted in hard copy, on CD or by e-mail (Apple Works, MS-Word or RTF). Please DO NOT send images without prior agreement.
Please note that submission of a proposal will be taken to imply that it presents original, unpublished work not under consideration for publication elsewhere. By submitting a manuscript, the author(s) agree that the exclusive rights to reproduce and distribute the article have been given to Performance Research[ two acts as tragedy and comedy separate shows ]
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