The influence of the clown in Samuel Beckett´s work as a clue to a poetics of the actor

Authors

  • Thiago Antunes de Oliveira Santos Unesp – Universidade Estadual Paulista Julio de Mesquita Filho

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2238-7838..pesquisator.2012.36121

Keywords:

Samuel Beckett, Clown, Circus, Theeatre, Performance, Sacrifice, Actor, Comedy, Tragedy

Abstract

In this paper we discuss the presence of the clown in Samuel Beckett´s work as an evidence of a scenic poetics. Analyzing examples in his theatre and literature, we perceive how appearance and behavior of his characters resemble and radicalize that of the circus clown, stressing, especially, his grotesque elements. The clown´s tragic aspect is reinforced through the own condition of the actor in the scene.. In Becket´s theather, the actor is put in a risky condition similar to that of the clown throught repetions and the immobility imposed by the rigorous stage directions that he or she must follow.

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Author Biography

  • Thiago Antunes de Oliveira Santos, Unesp – Universidade Estadual Paulista Julio de Mesquita Filho
    Ator e diretor, leciona na Escola Livre de Teatro de Santo André desde 2005. Atualmente desenvolve projeto de mestrado no Instituto de Artes da Unesp, cujo objeto é a poética do ator no teatro de Samuel Beckett.

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Published

2012-05-19

Issue

No. 1 (2012)

Section

Artigos

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The influence of the clown in Samuel Beckett´s work as a clue to a poetics of the actor. (2012). PesquisAtor, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2238-7838..pesquisator.2012.36121