Notes
1Gare St. Lazare Players also premiered a stage production of Beckett's prose text Lessness, performed by Olwen Fouéré and directed by Judy Hegarty Lovett at the Kilkenny Arts Festival in 2002.
2The term is taken from a letter from Beckett to Alan Schneider in relation to the proposed filming of the 1975 Schiller Theatre production of Waiting for Godot in Berlin: ‘Berlin wasn’t too bad in the end. We were nearly there. There will be a film of a performance, purely documentary, no adaphatroce’ (Harmon Citation1998: 324).
3Henceforth cited as The Grove Companion to Samuel Beckett.
4Breuer, Maleczech and Neumann are still active in the New York-based company. See the Mabou Mines website: <http: //www.maboumines.org>
5Independent arts funding agency of the U.S. federal government.
6 The Lost Ones, Production Files, Folder 7, the Mabou Mines Archive (hereafter cited as MMA), MMS 133 held in the Fales Library, New York University.
7See also the entry on Mabou Mines in The Grove Companion to Samuel Beckett, pp. 332–4.
8MMA, Production Files, The Lost Ones, Folder 7.
9MMA, Production Files, Imagination Dead Imagine, Folder 24.
10MMA, Production Files, Imagination Dead Imagine, Folder 24.
11MMA, Production Files, Imagination Dead Imagine, Folder 24.
12This is a recurrent trope in Beckett, for example in his poetry collection ‘Echo's Bones’.