Mutated Bodies Stage performances of Beckett's late prose texts by Mabou Mines (1984) and Gare St. Lazare Players, Ireland (2005)

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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 1998: 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’.