Staging Ireland's Dispossessed: Sarah Jane Scaife's Beckett in the City ProjectMcMullan, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2531-3746 (2017) Staging Ireland's Dispossessed: Sarah Jane Scaife's Beckett in the City Project. Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui, 29 (2). pp. 361-374. ISSN 0927-3131
It is advisable to refer to the publisher's version if you intend to cite from this work. See Guidance on citing. To link to this item DOI: 10.1163/18757405-02902012 Abstract/SummaryThis essay explores the tension between the growing cultural capital of the Beckett ‘brand’ and the issues of dispossession which are at the heart of Beckett’s work through an investigation of selected productions from the Beckett in the City project, a series of site-specific performances of Beckett’s work directed by Sarah Jane Scaife. The discussion of Dublin performances of Act Without Words II (2013) and Beckett in the City: the Women Speak (2015) in marginalised urban spaces draws on writing by Judith Butler and Athena Athanasiou on dispossession.
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