Contents

Notes on Contributors
Pages: 1-2

Editorial

Staging Beckett and Contemporary Theatre and Performance Cultures
Anna McMullan & Graham Saunders
Pages: 3-9

Articles

Ecology in Beckett’s Theatre Garden: Or How to Cultivate the Oikos
Carl Lavery
Pages: 10-26

In Caves, in Ruins: Place as Archive at the Happy Days International Beckett Festival
Trish McTighe
Pages: 27-38

‘Demented Particulars’: Traces of Godot and the Provincial Theatre Archive
Sinéad Mooney
Pages: 39-53

Beckett and Darkness: The Drive to and the Flight from…
Andrew Lennon
Pages: 54-67

Theatre and Installation: Perspectives on Beckett
Derval Tubridy
Pages: 68-81

‘I’ll sing you a song from around the town’: Echoes and Transformations of Samuel Beckett’s Theatre in Amanda Coogan’s Durational Performance Art
Brenda O’Connell
Pages: 82-94

‘Meditations’ on Loss: Beyond Discourses of Pain and Torture in the Work of the Beckett Actor
Phillip Zarrilli
Pages: 95-113

Documents

Situating the Audience – Performance Encounter Beckett in the City: The Women Speak
Sarah Jane Scaife
Pages: 114-126

Katie Mitchell on Staging Beckett
Katie Mitchell interviewed by Anna McMullan
Pages: 127-132

Reviews

Theatre History and Historiography: Ethics, Evidence and Truth edited by Claire Cochrane and Jo Robinson
David Calder
Pages: 133-134

Performing Orthodox Ritual in Byzantium by Andrew Walker White
Will Shüler
Pages: 134-135

The Aesthetics of Atmospheres by Gernot Böhme
Yaron Shyldkrot
Pages: 135-137

Coloring Whiteness: Acts of Critique in Black Performance by Faedra Chatard Carpenter
Kellen Hoxworth
Pages: 137-138

Performance Art in Eastern Europe since 1960 by Amy Bryzgel
Sofia Vranou
Pages: 138-139

Theatre, Performance and Cognition: Languages, Bodies and Ecologies edited by Rhonda Blair and Amy Cook
Vivian Appler
Pages: 140-141

Evolution, Cognition, and Performance by Bruce McConachie
Jessica M. Beck
Pages: 141-142

Performance by Diana Taylor
Lara Shalson
Pages: 142-144

Abstracts
Pages: 145-149

Backpages

Interview with Seán Doran
Trish McTighe
Pages: 150-154

Interview with John Scott
Trish McTighe
Pages: 154-156

Interview with William Gaskill
Graham Saunders and Matthew McFrederick
Pages: 156-160