Overview
The theatrical notebooks of Beckett that are reproduced in facsimile here are translated and annotated and thus offer a remarkable record of his own involvement with the staging of his texts. They present his solutions to practical problems but also provide a unique insight into the ways he envisaged his plays. With additional information taken from Beckett’s own annotated and corrected copies, the editors have been able to constitute a new revised text for each of these major plays.
Beckett directed two separate productions of Endgame, once with the Schiller Theater Company in Berlin in 1967, and again with the San Quentin Drama Workshop in 1980. Beckett’s revisions for both maintain a consistency that makes a ‘corrected’ (Beckett’s word) text not only possible but desirable, a reflection of the substantial amount of thinking and theatrical testing the work has undergone since its publication. No previous edition includese the complete production-generated changes. This volume includes, moreover, the ‘final’ text for Endgame revised and approved by Samuel Beckett.
This book title, Endgame: Production Notebooks, ISBN: 9780802149107, by Samuel Beckett, Samuel Beckett, Stanley Gontarski, James R. Knowlson, published by Grove Atlantic (September 24, 2019) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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