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Samuel Beckett Centre,
Trinity College Dublin
Friday 4 & Saturday 5 May 2001
Where Extremes Meet:
Re-reading Brecht and Beckett
A symposium of invited speakers, hosted by the School of Drama
and the Graduate Centre for Arts Research of 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 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.
Looking back we recognise shared interests and common ground:
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 in the symposium can draw on their
experience of working in person with Beckett or with Brecht.
Friday 4 May
10.00am Antony Tatlow: “Saying Yes and Saying No -
Schopenhauer and Nietzsche as Educators”
11.30am Panel I on Brecht and Beckett in the Theatre:
Walter Asmus, Hans-Thies Lehmann, Peter Palitzsch, Carl Weber
3.00pm The Sixth Annual Samuel Beckett Lecture
Herbert Blau: "Among the deepening shades: the Beckettian
moment(um) and the Brechtian arrest"
4.30pm Reception
Saturday 5 May
10.00am Jonathan Kalb: "Through the lens of Heiner Müller"
11.30am Panel II on Brecht and Beckett in the Theatre
Michael Colgan, Moray McGowan, Fiona Shaw
3.00pm Sue-Ellen Case "Time and time again: playing Brecht and
Beckett's real time in the digital age"
All sessions will be open to the public and free of charge.
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