By Anna McMullan
Theatre on Trial is the 1st full-length research of Samuel Beckett's later drama within the context of up to date theatre. Audrey McMullan employs a detailed, textual exam of the later performs as a springboard for exploring rules round authority, voyeurism, gender and the ideology of degree and television house. Her software of deconstruction and psychoanalytic feminism to Beckett's paintings will holiday new and fascinating flooring.
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The play therefore underlines the faith in the need to ‘go on’, to bear witness to the traces of being which survive the repressive forces which humanity is ‘heir to’, underlying all of Beckett’s work. This struggle suggests the ambiguity of Beckett’s relation to humanism. Such a universalizing perspective may neglect the importance of specific context emphasized by contemporary cultural studies, but Beckett’s work is nevertheless saturated with a sense of the suffocating weight of the historical, philosophical and literary heritage which continues to dominate and repress the articulation of difference.
In the bag. Once more and I’m off. (p. 300) The transformation of the body into artistic material is emphasized by the whitening of the Protagonist’s body: A: Like that cranium? D: Needs whitening. (p. 25 28 THEATRE ON TRIAL Catastrophe plays upon the audience’s awareness of the body transformed into a sign, into material to be manipulated, disciplined, shaped. The body in representation is reproduced as a conditioned image in accordance with the dominant laws, while any attempt on the part of the powerless to speak or gesture is repressed: The imposed-upon body is captured and framed in representation.
The mimed death of Pierrot then reflects or repeats that of his wife, The action of the mime therefore sets up a dynamic fictional space which eludes fixed spatial or temporal boundaries, a ‘between’ space which Mallarmé called ‘the hymen’: The scene illustrates but the idea, not any actual action, in a hymen (out of which flows Dream) tainted with vice yet sacred, between desire and fulfilment, perpetration and remembrance: here anticipating, there recalling in the future, in the past, under the false appearance of the present.