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Director Robert Scanlan emphasized the un-theatricality of “Beckett at 100” with this line in his introduction to the show. As Scanlan explained, Irish dramatist Samuel Beckett wrote the three plays, which made up the New College Theatre’s most recent offering, independently and intended for them to be produced through different media. “Words and Music” and “Cascando” were originally for the radio and “...but the clouds...” for television...
Despite its ambition of bringing the three plays together, “Beckett at 100,” produced by the Office for the Arts at Harvard, always strove to maintain a certain level of this un-theatricality. Scanlan, professor of the practice of theater in the Harvard’s English department, kept the works’ original media in mind in several key decisions, like setting the stage elements in specific geometric configurations and bringing in technology as a physical presence on stage. It was Scanlan’s innovative and creative interpretation of Beckett?...
...captured yesterday in the opening night of three usually neglected works by Irish playwright Samuel Beckett. The three plays, originally produced in April 2006 to commemorate what would have been Beckett’s 100th birthday, were part of the inaugural series for the New College Theatre. Robert Scanlan, a professor of theater who knew Beckett personally, directed the plays, and Martin Pearlman, founder and conductor of the Boston Baroque, composed the music. All of Beckett’s plays—including the three on stage last night, “Words and Music...
...with a female cast. (“Women don’t have prostates,” he said.) The Beckett Foundation is notorious for opposing all alterations to the author’s original work to this day. And yet English professor and Beckett scholar Robert Scanlan managed to obtain permission for unusual changes to three of Beckett’s plays, which he first directed in 2006 as “Beckett at 100” and which are now showing at the New College Theatre. But though the plays are adapted from their original format...
Theatre professor Robert Scanlan, who was unaware of the formation of the task force until the announcement, said, “I expect the moon...