Abstract

Abstract Moving from one medium to another, Beckett extends his search for theatrical metaphors. In radio, television, and in one instance film, Beckett clarifies the sight-sound relationships which leave their mark on his late stage plays through their technical precision. The rigid pat terning of voices on tape and images in film and video brings to his work a stability and a measure of control normally absent from the arena of live performance. Recording pictures that are permanent and unearthly sounds that never change, technology establishes a truly ‘concrete’ poetry, one that not only imitates electricity, but also lasts forever.1 In radio, a medium of sound, Beckett makes us visualize a world made up of private time and public space.

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